Xavier School of Mission

08/05/2022

The countdown to the 2022 Xavier School of Mission is in full swing! There’s only 23 days left to register for an exciting, formative, and rich experience at Holy Spirit Seminary, Banyo. Registration closes June 1, so now’s your chance to join us before it’s too late.

Will you join us? Register now: https://seminary.catholic.net.au/xavier-school-of-mission/

❓Questions or concerns? We’d love to hear from you: [email protected]
📅Save the date: June 19-24, 2022

06/04/2022

All are called but are all equipped?

Pope Francis speaks of ‘a “missionary option”, that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church’s customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channelled for the evangelization of today’s world rather than for her self-preservation.’ (Evangelii Gaudium, #27)

The idea of a missionary option for the Church cannot happen without an intentional investment of time and resources but most importantly, an investment in people who are called by their baptism to take up the mission entrusted by Jesus to his church. Formation for mission is essential if Pope Francis’ missionary option is to be more than “a dream”.

The Xavier School of Mission provides an opportunity to invest in women and men who seek to be equipped for the mission field which is their life. It also provides an opportunity for leadership development as we face the challenging questions about mission in 21st century Australia.

Our theme this year is "All in? When Mission is our Lens."
🗓 June 19-24, 2022
📌 Holy Spirit Seminary, Brisbane
More info: [email protected]; and https://seminary.catholic.net.au/xavier-school-of-mission/

17/07/2019

Pastor Karolina Gunsser is set to speak at the opening Ecumenical event this Sunday evening. She is a gifted communicator calling all types of audiences to be who they are purposed to be. From late 2013 Karolina and her husband Sam have been the Location Pastors of Citipointe Church Redcliffe.

Pastor Karoline holds that Christians who are taught sound biblical doctrine and receive its instruction will grow in their character and behaviour into healthy disciples of Jesus. She sees the goal of teaching the Word of God is to see a regeneration of individual believers through practical application of doctrine, thus having greater impact into society for the regeneration of culture itself.

01/07/2019

Director of the Xavier Center for Theological Formation, Dr. Maeve Louise Heaney VDMF will lead this year’s School of Mission.

Born in Dublin, across the sea in Ireland, she is a consecrated missionary of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity. She completed her Bachelors in theology in Madrid, and her licentiate and doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

During her time in Rome, she taught both at the Gregorian and at the Rome Base of the Catholic University of Dallas. She was Bannan Fellow 2011-2012 at Santa Clara University, California, teaching at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.

As a musician and composer, she interweaves the fields of theological aesthetics, spirituality and the arts.

25/06/2019

The countdown is on! This year’s Xavier School of Mission is just around the corner and registration is still open. Head to https://www.seminary.catholic.net.au/xavier-school-of-mission/ for more information.

02/06/2019

This year the Xavier School of Mission will begin with an open ecumenical evening being held at Holy Spirit Provincial Seminary on the Sunday evening, July 21st.

The theme of the event is 'In the Word was Life: An Ecumenical Conversation'.

After a light meal, a panel of experts will introduce how the Word is experienced and understood in their faith communities, setting the scene for a conversation among all present.

An open invitation, please RSVP by July 14th, including any dietary needs.

11/03/2019

https://www.seminary.catholic.net.au/xavier-school-of-mission/

Here is the latest info on this year's Xavier School of Mission! More details soon to follow!

This year's Xavier School of Mission will be run with a special focus on Speaking and Preaching, with the theme of The Word of Life: More Than Words. The Xavier School will be run from Sunday night 21 July 2019 at 6 pm and conclude Friday 26 July 2019 with Eucharist and commissioning at 11.00 am.

28/03/2018

The Xavier School of Evangelisation is/ will be a dynamic and flexible process and resource that will place the Church’s mission to evangelise, (Evangelii Nuntiandi 14) at the heart of Holy Spirit Seminary’s formative process. Its aim shall be two-fold:

· To integrate elements of theoretical-practical training for evangelisation into the wider formative process of the seminarians.

· To develop and offer aspects of training for leaders in evangelisation at the service of the Dioceses of Queensland.

Faithful to the life and mission of Jesus Christ, and to the mission entrusted to the Church, four interrelated dimensions will ground and guide the different initiatives offered:

· The preaching of the kerygma, adapted to the sensibility of the varying realities of Queensland;

· The creation of platforms and scenarios that facilitate an attractive and credible witness that precedes and accompanies this preaching;

· Spiritual formation and supervision of leaders in the ongoing appropriate accompaniment of those involved;

· The progressive and accumulative integration of newcomers in community structures that in turn reach out to and evangelise others. (Evangelii Nuntiandi 21-24).

The overall outcomes of the School are ‘two tiered’, in the sense that there are outcomes applicable to the ‘student’ and the ‘participant/project’: “participant” refers to those who attend the school for the first time; “student” refers to those who collaborate in its ongoing running, including seminarians and others identified by the Xavier School Working Group. The first year will be run mainly by this working group and others identified by them as collaborators. Subsequent years will include past participants as students, in developmental learning.

In the outcomes of each theology unit this difference will hinge on the student’s involvement not only in achieving the specified outcomes but in their involvement in aiding participants to do so. This will be assessed by journaling of student in conversation with an appointed supervisor upon consultation with the Xavier School Working Group.

‘Student’ Outcomes

On completion of the two year process, students will be able to:

· Formulate and proclaim the kerygma in appropriate language for the diversity of cultural milieu of the Dioceses of QLD and beyond;

· Effectively collaborate in creating platforms that witness to the Good News of the Kingdom and provoke the irresistible question marks that open the human heart to the Gospel;

· Engender and maintain relationships of mentorship and friendship in freedom and maturity that accompany the growth of those involved in their discipleship with Christ, in a spirit of ecclesial service;

· Dialogically teach and share the faith towards the capacitation of those involved as co-collaborators in the evangelising task.

Participant/Project Outcomes:

As the School advances, it will enable participants to

· Enter into and grow in a personal relationship with Christ;

· Understand and formulate what that experience means for them in a language that is accessible and communicable for their peers;

· Enter into and journey with a local ecclesial community and grow in their commitment to and service of the same;

· Take up their role and responsibility to support their local ecclesial communities in being a mature and prophetic presence of Gospel values in and for the local community.