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RELIGION & RELIGIONSReligion is a system of beliefs. It appears to have been present

throughout history in one form or another. Religion deals with

basic quesons confronng humankind. Among these quesonsare those about God or Gods, lifes purpose, good and evil, life

aer death, etc. In many cultures religion is understood to be

the relaonship between a person or a group of persons with

God or a number of Gods. However, not all religions have a God

or Gods. Most religions instruct its faithful to live according to a

specic moral code. For some religions morality is centered onthe correct way to honor God or the Gods: for other religions

their respecve moral codes emphasize social and human

relaons. A common thread among religions is that each has a

belief system, doctrine. Moreover, religions have rituals and

usually have certain objects, places and mes designated as

sacred.

HOW DOES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH VIEW OTHER

RELIGIONS?Today we are part of a global community that is drawing ever-

more closely together. It oen feels like the world got shrink-

wrapped in a single generaon and were all breathing the sameremarkably limited and interdependent air now.

The Second Vacan Council (1961 1965) saw this new reality

on the horizon and recognized that the Catholic Church had to

reexamine and clarify its interfaith stance. In the Declaraon on

the Relaon of the Church to Non-Chrisan Religions (Nostra

Aetate, 1965) it formally opened the issue to furtherexploraon.

Nostra Aetate, while not a perfect document, had some

remarkable things to say. It asserts unequivocally that humanity

is one community with a common desny in God. People turn

to dierent religions in search of the same answers to quesons

as fundamental as: What is the purpose of life? What is goodand evil? Where does suering come from and what is its

meaning? What leads to happiness? What lies beyond death?

Then the document makes its boldest claim: The Catholic

Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these

religions (no. 2). While Chrisans are bound to witness to

Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6), weshould also acknowledge, preserve, and encourage the spiritual

and moral truths found among non-Chrisans. It lists, for

starters, that

Hindus seek the divine mystery in myth and philosophy, and

pracce ascecism, meditaon, and condence in Gods love.

Buddhists tesfy to the inadequacies of the material world

and that wisdom must be sought through liberaon from the

trap of possessions.

Muslims worship the one God, see in Abraham a spiritual

father, and regard Jesus as a holy man and Mary as a source of

intercession. Muslims adhere to familiar pracces of prayer,fasng, and almsgiving.

Our shared spiritual heritage with the Jewish community is so

inmate that it has spawned many addional teachings since

Vacan II. Pope John Paul II called Judaism the elder brother

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Although Vacan II opened a new door for the Catholic Church

to our relaonship with other faiths, it did not yet go as far as to

say that interreligious dialogue is part of the evangelizing

mission of the church. This came through the Poncate of John

Paul II through three subsequent documents: Dialogue andMission (1984), the mission encyclical Mission of the Redeemer

(1990), and Dialogue and Proclamaon (1991). These teachings

reect the growing awareness of the centrality of interfaith

dialogue in the very mission of the church. For Pope John Paul II,

dialogue is fundamental for the Church, based on the very life

of the Triune God, as well as on respect and love for everyhuman person: As far as the local churches are concerned, they

must commit themselves in this direcon, helping all the faithful

to respect and to esteem the values, tradions, and convicons

of other believers.

This dialogue is not a mere discussion about each others beliefs.

For the church there are several ways this dialogue can play out. The rst is the dialogue of life where believers of dierent

religions bear witness before each other in daily life to their own

human and spiritual values, and help each other to live

according to those values in order to build a more just and

fraternal society.

The second is the dialogue of works and acon where

collaboraon with other faiths is opportune in the social,

economic and polical to build a more humane society.

The third is the dialogue of theological exchange and oen

involves specialists and leaders in dierent faith tradions in

search for ulmate truth.

Finally the dialogue of religious experience is an opportunity

to share prayer and religious experiences in our common search

for the Absolute.

Today we are more deeply aware of the tremendous diversity we

live with each day. This diversity, oen exemplied in our

communies and neighborhoods is the place where Catholicsbegin this dialogue and collaboraon with peoples of other faiths

in any or all of the ways our evangelical mission requires us to

connect with a world beyond our faith and cultural boundaries.

Fr. Carl Chudy, SX

ScriptureIsaiah 66:23; John 14:6; Acts 17:26; Romans 9:4

-5; 2 Corinthians

5:18-19; Galaans 3:7-9; Revelaon 21:24

Acknowledgements: Alice L. Camille Vocaon Network and

Fr. Tom Ryan, CSP, Naonal Director of the Ecumenical and

Interfaith Oce of the Paulist Fathers


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BUDDHISMBuddhism began in India in the 6

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century B.C.E. Its founder is a young

man of a wealthy family namedSiddhartha Gautama. He ed

from a life of great comfort and

wealth and became an ascec. He

eventually le his ascec lifestyle to

ulmately discover the path to nirvana,

paradise. This path is called the Middle Way.

The Middle Waybasically involves leading a disciplined life

halfway between a life of luxury and a life of extreme poverty.

And so Siddhartha Gautama became known as the Buddha, the

enlightened one. Central to his teachings is what is known as

The Four Noble Truths: suering exists; the cause of suering

is desire; there is a way to remove the cause of suering and

reach nirvana; the way to remove suering is called theEighold Path. The Eighold Path teaches Buddhists to strive to

aain right view, right aspiraon, right speech, right acon, right

livelihood, right eort, right mindfulness and right meditaon.

There is no supreme divinity and no ordained clergy in

Buddhism. There are monks and nuns who have taken vows of

poverty, live in community, and wear robes which point to their

respecve monasc orders. Buddhism has several main

branches, each of which has its interpretaon of the faith.

Theravada Buddhism is called The Lesser Vehicle and is

dominant in Southeast Asia. Mahayana Buddhism is known as

The Greater Vehicle and predominates in East Asia. Tibetan

Buddhism is found in Tibet. There are between 350 and 400million Buddhists in the world today.

HINDUISM

It is thought that Hinduism was born in

the 3rd

century B.C.E. It teaches that

there is one God who is the Creator.He is given the name Brahma. Brahma

has innumerable aspects and

manifestaons that include Krishna,

Vishnu and Ganesh. Hinduism has no single

scripture. It does have a collecon of wrings called Vedas. The

Vedas describe daily life and religious rituals in ancient India. Ofgreat importance to Hindus is the revered Bhagavad Gita. It

recounts the conversaon between the god Krishna and Arjuna

on the eve of a great bale. As with other revered texts the

Bhagavad Gita is wrien in Sanskrit, sll used today in certain

religious ceremonies. One Sanskrit word is yoga. Yoga means to

unite and reects the Hindu spiritual ideal of achieving unionbetween the human and the divine.

Hinduism has no formal clergy but there are spiritual teachers

called priests, gurus, swamis or pandits. Most Hindu families

have a shrine at home. The family shrine contains photos of its

deceased, a statue of the family deity and oerings to please the

god. Both at the home shrine and at public temples Hindusperformpujas, pious rituals. Hindus believe in reincarnaon. So

as to be reborn in a more advanced state in their following

lifeme, Hindus work in their present life accumulang good

deeds. This process is related to the caste system of India. The

highest caste is that of the Brahman; it reects the name of the

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ISLAMMuslims believe in one God, Allah. They

also believe that Muhammad was

chosen as his last and nal prophet.The revelaons received by Muhammad

appear in the Koran, Islams holy book. The

followers of Islam live by the Five Pillars of

their faith. The rst of the Five Pillars is the belief

that God is one and that Muhammad is his prophet. This Pillar is

followed by the obligaon to donate 2.5% of their wealth to

charity, zakat; to pray facing Mecca ve mes each day; to fast

from dawn to dusk throughout the holy month ofRamadan; and

to make, at least once in ones lifeme,a spiritual pilgrimage to

Mecca, Muhammads birthplace. There are three well-known

Islamic branches: Shiite, Sunni and Su.

Shiite: Shiite Islam is the second largest branch of Islam. ShiiteMuslims believe that at the death of Muhammad his son-in-law

Ali was his legimate successor and as such should have been

named the rst imam. Shiite Muslims believe that only the

descendants of Muhammad and Ali have a legimate claim to

the leadership posions of both imam and caliph. They believe

that the 12 descendants of Ali, the 12 imams, were ordained by

God to interpret the Koran. 11 of the 12 were killed but the

twelh survived and will return to earth and restore

righteousness. While Shiite Muslims await his return, they

accept a leader, an ayatollah, to rule in his place.

Sunni: Sunni Islam is the largest of the Muslim branches. Sunni

Muslims live by the Five Pillars of Islam. Many also maintain

certain tradional pracces such as eang solely meat that is

seen as being acceptable, halal; women dressing modestly and

covering their head with a scarf, hijab; and recing Friday

aernoon prayers together in a mosque. Sunni Muslims believe

that only Muhammad could infallibly interpret the Koran.

Su: Su Islam is not so much a sect as a myscal path. Itbelieves that through a direct personal experience of Allah one

comes to know the truth about the nature of Allah and of

humanity. The instrucon of teachers is essenal for achieving

this personal experience. Central Su beliefs include the need to

have an absolute trust in God; God is one and there are no

others; God loves man and man loves God; a myscal experience

of the divine leads to illuminaon. For Sus to acquire the

knowledge that comes from inmacy with God is the very

purpose of creaon. Su Muslims can also be found in both

Sunni and Shiite sects.

CHRISTIANITYChrisanity began in Israel in the rst

century C.E. Chrisans are

followers of Jesus Christ. They hold

that there is only one God who is eternal, all

-knowing and good. Jesus Christ is believed by

his followers to be God come to earth to

enlighten humankind. Chrisans are guided in life by theteachings and examples of their divine teacher. The

teachings and examples of Jesus Christ emphasize the

primacy of love and the necessity of avoiding sin. They can

be found in the Bible, the holy scripture of Chrisanity.

Among the doctrinal beliefs of Chrisans are: there is only

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evils stem from human sin; the second person of the Holy Trinity

became the man Jesus Christ who while retaining his divine

nature took on human nature. Chrisanity has many branches.

The three dominant ones are Roman Catholicism, Orthodox

Chrisanity and Protestansm.

Roman Catholicism: The Roman Catholic Church is the largest

branch of Chrisanity with over one billion members. In the year

313 C.E. it was ocially recognized by the Emperor Constanne.

The center of Roman Catholicism is Saint Peters church at the

Vacan in the city of Rome, Italy. It is a hierarchical Church with

cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, and deacons; they form

the Roman Catholic Churchs ordained clergy. Only men are

permied to be part of the clergy and almost all are required to

take a vow of celibacy. In Roman Catholicism there are groups of

women and men with religious vows known as sisters or

brothers, friars, nuns or monks and each belongs to a specic

order or congregaon. At the top of the Roman Catholichierarchy is the Bishop of Rome, the Pope.

Roman Catholics believe that there are seven sacraments. The

celebraon of each of the seven sacraments are believed by

Catholics to be especially grace-lled. Catholics believe that in

the celebraon of their Eucharist or Mass the bread and wine

used are actually converted into the body and blood of the

crucied and resurrected Jesus Christ. There is also the belief

that the saints can serve as intermediaries with God in order to

obtain his help. The most important saint is Mary, the earthly

mother of Jesus and as such the Mother of God.

Orthodox Chrisanity: Orthodox Chrisanity is made up of

dierent eastern churches. They hold the common belief that

they are the successors of the 12 Apostles of Jesus. Orthodox

Chrisanity separated from Roman Catholicism in the eleventh

century C.E. and established itself in Istanbul, the former

Constannople. Orthodox Chrisanity seeks to unite man with

God through a number of Sacred Mysteries, similar to Roman

Catholicisms sacraments. Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, is

believed to be and highly venerated as Theotokos, Mother of

God. Orthodox Chrisanity has an ordained clergy and its

worship services are chanted or sung; incense is greatly used at

these services.

Protestansm: Protestansm appeared in the 16th

century C.E.

as a reacon to abuses in the Roman Catholicism of the Middle

Ages. The three founders of Protestansm are Marn Luther in

Germany, Huldrych Zwingli in Switzerland and John Calvin in

France. Their reform movements began at approximately the

same me. Luther, Zwingli and Calvin cricized Catholic doctrine

and pracce based on their reading of the Bible in its original

languages. Protestant Chrisans believe in the central

importance of the teachings found in the Bible as well as to a

doctrine of salvaon through faith in Jesus Christ.Protestant

Chrisanity believes that sin has destroyed a persons capacity

to trust God and to contribute to his or her own salvaon. God

oers humankind the gis faith and salvaon and the capacity

to accept these gis. This is the doctrine of predesnaon: Goddecides who is to receive his gis and who is not. The gi or lack

thereof determines the eternal desny of each person. There

are Protestant Chrisans who deny the doctrine of

predesnaon: they believe that God oers the grace of

forgiveness to everyone and that each person can freely choose

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BAHAIBahai is a monotheisc faith. It is an

oshoot of Persias Shia Islam.

Tradion names Siyyid AliMuhammad as its founder. Since it

was he who announced the future

coming of a messenger of God, He

took on the tle ofBab, a word

meaning Gate. Opposed by Shia religious

authories who judged him to be an apostate he was

executed in 1850. Two years later one of his followers

Bahaullah, the Splendor of God, claimed to have had a myscal

experience that showed that he was the one foretold by the

Bab. Bahais consider him a prophet of God.

The Bahai faith teaches that God sends prophets and other

emissaries to humans on an ongoing basis. The approximately sixmillion Bahais accept numerous prophets from other religious

tradions. Bahai emphasizes the unity of all humanity. The

Bahai faith teaches that God, the human race and all religions

are united. Bahais are strongly commied to promong world

peace by the eliminaon of all forms of prejudice, defending the

equality of men and women, underlining the great importance

of universal educaon and poinng to the harmony between

science, technology and religion.

Bahai has no clergy. It is administered by a combinaon of

councils and advisers. Much of Bahai worship is realized at

home or in private places. Bahai faithful assemble every 19 days

for feasng, worship and strengthening community es. Theyfollow a solar calendar consisng of 19 months of 19 days each.

They observe 11 holy days in the year. Their New Year falls on

March 21st

and is preceded by 19 days of absnence from

sunrise to sunset and which includes absnence from gambling

and alcoholic drinks. The main symbol of the Bahai faith is a

nine-pointed star symbolizing perfecon and fulllment.

SHINTOShinto is the way of the Gods or kami

no michi. It is the indigenous religion

of Japan. The Gods or kamiof Shinto

are deies associated with nature: trees,animals, bodies of water, mountains and

hills, sun and moon. Amaterasu, the sun

goddess, is believed to be the ancestor of

the imperial family. Her symbol, the red sun, can be found at the

center of the ag of Japan.

Two ancient wrings, the Nihongiand the Kojiki, are of parcularimportance in Shinto. The two manuscripts record Shinto belief

on how the gods created Japan and its imperial line. Shinto rites

and rituals are conducted in shrines calledjinja. The shrines are

entered into through sacred gates called tori. Each shrine

possesses a god-body called goshintaiwhich oen is a mirror or

a reserved empty space. Oerings of rice, sh, vegetables andsake are made to the god-body and are later consumed.

Shinto celebraons are called matsuriand are oen

accompanied by music, dancing and a blessing with holy water

by Shinto priests. There is in Shinto a belief that the well-being

of nature and ones own spiritual well-being are mutually

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JAINISMJainism originated in India in the 7th or 6th century

B.C.E. There are an esmated ve to seven million

Jains in the world. The majority of Jains live inIndia. Tradion points to Mahavira as the

founder of Jainism. Mahavira is believed to

be the last of 24 enlightened teachers known

as Tirthankaras. The Tirthankaras were men

who succeeded in conquering their egos and

passions. They became known as Jinas, a

name meaning conquerors.

Jainism rejects the idea of a God who is creator

and supreme. In Jain temples representaons of the 24

Tirthankaras are given places of honor. Jains believe that all

living beings (humans, animals and vegetables) possess an

eternal soul which is repeatedly born again unl liberaon isachieved. Jains believe that the end of the cycle of

reincarnaons can be achieved by living a non-violent life, by

meditang and by being of service to others. Jains seek to

avoid harming any living thing and to free themselves from all

aachments, including impure atudes and thoughts. Some

Jain monks teach that a person can also rid himself of karma

and achieve liberaon through pracces of ascecism such as

fasng. Followers of Jainism believe that the world is

surrounded by suering souls towards which compassion must

be shown. Such compassion is culvated in Jainism by

following a vegetarian diet and through the gentle caring of

animals.

SIKHISMSikhism was founded in the Punjab region of

India in the eenth century C.E. Its

founder is Nanak, the rst of ten gurus

who propagated the Sikh faith.Sikhism absorbed a great deal of the

myscal tradions of Hinduism and

Islam, nally emerging as its own

religion. Sikhism teaches that the cycle

of death and rebirth known as

reincarnaon can be terminated by

uning the human spirit with God. This union is

achieved in Sikh worship by concentrang and centering on the

many names of the all-embracing non-anthropomorphic God.

Sikh religious services are held in temples or gurdwaras.

Parcipants in religious services sit on the oor and parcipate

in prescribed rituals, including recing prayers in the presence

of the Guru Granth Sahib, the principle Sikh scripture. When atprayer Sikh woman cover their hair.

Many Sikhs take the last name Singh meaning lion. These men

are members of a Sikh subgroup known as the Khalsa

brotherhood. They are disnguished by ve devoonal

symbols: they do not cut their hair, oen binding it up in a

turban, a comb, a steel wrist bracelet, a sword and short coon

underwear.

Most Sikhs live in the Punjab region of India where their faith

was inially propagated and the Golden Temple in Amritsar is

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JUDAISMJudaism is the oldest of the religions

which trace their origin to Abraham

whose story can be found in the rstbook of the Bible. The relaonship

between Yahweh or God and the

Jewish people is based on the Torah.

Faithful Jews believe the Torah was

communicated to them by God. The Torah is

the wrien law and teachings of God as found in the

Hebrew Bible. The Talmudis Jewish oral law. The Talmud

contains the debates and discussions in which Jewish teachers or

rabbis engaged so as to interpret the Torah correctly. Judaism

does not emphasize dogma nor blind faith The interpretaon

and applicaon of the law of God is seen as an evolving and

ongoing process.

While most Jews live in Israel or the United States, some 15 to

20 percent are found scaered in other areas of the world. Aer

the Roman destrucon of the Temple in Jerusalem Judaism

began to emphasize the importance of prayer, the reading of the

Torah, ethical behavior andthe authority of the rabbis. Jews can

be divided into four groups: secular, reform, conservave and

orthodox. Secular Jews consider their Jewishness solely ethnic.

Reform Jews see the laws of the Torah as guidelines that need to

be connually adjusted to present-day reality. Conservave Jews

underline the authority of Jewish law and acknowledge that the

interpretaon and applicaon of the law has changed in the

course of history. Orthodox Jews believe that the law contained

in both the Torah and the Talmud must be closely followed and

that rabbis are the sole interpreters of what is wrien there.

DAOISMDaoism or Taoism is a both a Chinese

religion and a philosophy. Daoism

grew out of the teachings of Laozi who

lived in the 6th

century BCE. It became

a formal system of belief in about the

3rd

century BCE due principally to the

wrings of Zhuangzi. The Daodejing and

the Zhuangzi are the essenal Scriptures of

Daoism. At the heart of Daoist belief is the concept of the Dao,or the Way. The Dao is the eternal principle that underpins the

harmony found in the universe. By following the Dao, believers

can arrive at a happy and healthy life, and the possibility of

joining the immortals in Heaven.Daoists look within themselves

to nd what kind of person they should be. By so doing they will

discover the Dao, which is the source of harmony in the universeand also the path to be followed on earth so as to reach in

heaven. Daoists follow the Way by channeling the forces of

nature within their own body. They aim for inner balance which

brings health of body and mind. They give great importance to

diet, exercise, correct breathing and moral pracces that are in

harmony with the Dao. Daoists believe that the body containsmany invisible channels along which the vital life-energy qi

ows. When there is balance between yin and yang in the body

and in the world health and happiness result. Daoism has a

mythology of Heaven and the immortals, and Daoists hope to

join these deies when they die. On earth these immortals

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diculty. Many of the immortals were persons who lived on

earth and achieved immortality because of their courageous

following of the Dao. Their presence in heaven conveys the

message that devoon to the Dao will result in immortality.

ZOROASTRIANISMZoroastrianism was born in the 6

thcentury

BCE. Its founder is Zarathustra or Zoroaster.

It is believed that Zoroaster was directly

given his teachings by Ahura Mazda, theonly God of Zoroastrianism. Ahura

Mazda created the universe and all that is

good. Aura Mainyu or Ahriman is recognized

as the evil spirit that opposes Ahura Mazda

and seeks the destrucon of the good.

Ahriman brings about chaos and sows

destrucon. Ahura Mazda will overcome

Ahriman once and for all at end me. Then

the universe will be recreated. The recreaon of the universe

will be accomplished through a Savior born of a virgin and

appearing at end me.

Ahura Mazda is represented in the universe by the AmeshaSpentas and the Yazatas. The Amesha Spentas are believed to be

in charge of the individual aspects of creaon. The Yazatas assist

the Amesha Spentas and they represent a recognizable moral or

physical aspect of creaon.

The holy book of Zoroastrianism is the Avesta, the Book of the

Law. The most sacred part of the Avesta contains liturgical workswith 17 hymns believed to have been composed by Zarathustra

and known as the Gathas. The remainder of the Avesta serves as

a commentary on the Gathas.

Zoroastrians believe that they must be acvely involved in life.

They believe that happiness and goodness is achieved by doing

good deeds. The moral code of Zoroastrianism is: think, speakand act righteously. Adherents of this religious tradion do not

give value to ascecal pracces. Whatever faults a person

commits can be erased through confession and prayer. At death

all persons will face both a spiritual and a physical judgment.

Should a persons wicked deeds outweigh his good deeds he is

brought to hell. There the degree of his wickedness willdetermine the degree of suering he will endure. For

Zoroastrians hell is not eternal but remedial.

Zoroastrians oer prayers ve or six mes daily. They pray

communally in temples in which a re is kept burning at all

mes. The re represents Ahura Mazdas eternal power. Visitors

to re temples bring oerings of wood which a masked priestplaces in the re without desecrang it by his breathe. The

visitor is then anointed with ashes from the re.

Religions of the Worldby Fr. Adolph Menndez, SX

Father Adolph Menndez, SX is a spiritual trainer at theGYM, anoutreach program of the St. Frances Xavier Foreign Mission Society foryoung people and Youth Ministers. He was a member of the Newman

sta at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, IL and a teacher

and part of the Newman Centers sta at Eastern Illinois University. He

brings to this ministry his thirty years of missionary experience in Japan

and then in Mexico where he taught at high school and graduate level,

and served as chaplain and guide for young adults.


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THE XAVERIAN MISSIONARIESWe are one of the missionary communies in and of the Church

that minister exclusively as Missio Ad Gentes, serve as her mis-

sionary memory and strive to inspire a new generaon to theMissio Ad Gentes of the Church. We understand Missio Ad Gen-

tes to be the proclamaon of Jesus Christ through: a) The inter-

cultural and interfaith dialogue, be it formal or informal through

dialogue of life and experience; b) The advocacy for and solidari-

ty with the poor; c) The sharing the legacy of our founder, St.

Guido Confor; d) The telling the story and witness of our mis-

sionaries in the variety of ministries and countries where we

serve.

Currently eight hundred Xaverian missionaries serve in: Bangla-

desh, Burundi, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, Colombia, Dem. Republic

of Congo, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Mozambique, Philip-

pines, Sierra Leone, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan, the UK and theUSA.

theGYM

The objecves of The GYM are 1)

to help the young adults and

youth recognize the fact that theyare not just members of the Cath-

olic Church but that they them-

selves are the Church and 2) to

assist them in understanding that

the Church is not only local but

global and that they are an important part of both, generang

genuine links of solidarity.

The GYM oers young adults and youth informaon through

conferences, workshops and other speaking engagements pre-

senng the work of the Church in Africa, Asia, Lan America by

people who have years of personal experience in these areas.

In addion, prayer experiences, such as Eucharisc Celebraons,retreats, Days of Reecon, interreligious dialogue sessions,

pilgrimages and more will connect ones faith to the wider faith

community which grounds our call to Mission ad gentes. (Go,

therefore, and make disciples of all naons... Mt 28:19)

Fr. Adolph Menndez, SX

theGYM

Xaverian Missionaries

101 Summer Street

Holliston MA 01746-5857

508-429-2144

[email protected]

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theGYM

Xaverian Missionaries

101 Summer Street

Holliston MA 01746-5857

508-429

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[email protected]

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