A Message from Your Pastoral Council
Late last Summer we asked for volunteers to form a Committee to address and rectify the lack of diversity of the artwork here at Xavier.
Nine dedicated parishioners volunteered and along with four Pastoral Council members and Fr. Boller we set out to accomplish that goal.
We settled on approximately 20 artists and sent them solicitations. Fourteen responded positively, and submitted some wonderful ideas. We selected four finalists and had Zoom meetings with all of them.
The project will take place in stages, and the first artist we have commissioned is Patricia Brintle https://www.patriciabrintle.com/
Her proposal is to paint 12 separate Saints/Blesseds of various ethnicities on birchwood panels. The current plan is to place them in the recessed marble panels between the Stations of the Cross. Alternatively, they can be installed in the same recessed marble panels in the back of the Church and near the Sacred Heart and Boys Saints Altars.
Other proposed Saints/Blesseds to be included are:
St. Josephine Bakhita – Sudanese Italian, St. Charles Lwanga & Companions – Uganda, Blessed Augustus Tolton – first African American Catholic priest, St Oscar Romero – El Salvador, St Alberto Hurtado – Chile, St Maria Natividad Venegas de la Torre – Mexico, St Lorenzo Ruiz – Philippines, St Andrew Kim Taegon – Korea Chinese Martyrs, Vietnamese Martyrs or St Andrew Dung Lac and companions, St Paul Miki- Japan, Blessed Pierre Touissant, Blessed Mother Mary Lange
The hope is to have most of these completed and installed by All Saints Day
We look forward to your comments and suggestions. Please send your responses to pastoralcouncil@sfxavier.org. We also invite you to join us on a Zoom call on August 17 at 6:30PM if you’d like to know more. Zoom Link: https://sfxavierparish.zoom.us/j/91268334033?pwd=cmxrVWtsZWgyNkhsa3ZIM3BjVEM5QT09
Thank you.