WELCOME!

Last year was filled with accomplishments and innovations, and we are well into an equally exciting new year. We exist for the purpose of serving our clients, and many people are an important part of this work - our dedicated staff, our amazing volunteers, the donors and benefactors who are crucial, and the many people who support us with their prayers. 

Please take a look at our "Lenten Appeal" section. If you wish to donate on line, go to the "Contributions" page and click on the link at the top of the page.

Please take a look at the "News" section, where we have news about our upcoming auction and benefit cocktail reception, the pilgrimage to Greece and Turkey ("In the Footsteps of St. Paul") and several wonderful raffle opportunities.

 Please feel free to explore and learn more about the Xavier Society for the Blind, in continuous operation since 1900 in service to the blind and partially-sighted. We have never charged for our services, and continue to rely on generous donors and supporters. For those who cannot afford to contribute financially, we welcome your prayers, and invite you to visit our Volunteers section, to see if there are other ways you can help this important and rewarding work.

Please contact us either by phone, by email (there is a section here called "Contact Us") or regular mail, or, if you are in the neighborhood, just by dropping in to introduce yourself. We are also on Facebook, both with our own page and as a Facebook Cause. If you know someone who might benefit from our services, please tell them about us. We welcome comments, suggestions (and yes, even criticisms) of anything we do, especially this new website; your thoughts help us serve better.

Fr. John R. Sheehan, SJ

Chairman of the Board

Xavier Society for the Blind

Address: 154 East 23rd St, New York, NY 10010

Phone: (212) 473-7800; or (800) 637-9193;

or FAX (212) 473-7801

Email: info@xaviersocietyfortheblind.org

I who am blind can give one hint to those who see - one admonition to those who would make full use of the gift of sight: use your eyes tomorrow as if you would be stricken blind. And the same method would be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again.

(Helen Keller)