Argentina – Extraordinary Visitation of Fr Gabriel Romero to Patagonia to encourage continuing to ...

(ANS – Buenos Aires) – The Extraordinary Visitation to the Blessed Ceferino ...

Italy – Beginning of restoration and conservation work on the two bell towers of the Basilica of ...

(ANS – Turin) – Despite the heavy rain that hit Turin in recent days, the assembly of ...

Vatican – Meetings with Pope Francis and the Rector Major for the conclusion of the "Accompanying ...

(ANS – Vatican City) – As part of the General Audience on Wednesday, the participants ...

RMG – The Youth Ministry Sector publishes “EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS” for a Youth Ministry that educates ...

(ANS – Rome) – A series of pathways are presented to gain a deeper appreciation of ...

eSwatini – 70th anniversary of eSwatini Salesian presence with Culture Day

(ANS – Manzini) – A day before the national holiday on 19 April, when the eSwatini ...

India - Fr. John Zosiama takes charge as the new Provincial of Shillong

The time-tested traditions of the Salesian Congregation and the seamless handing over ceremony of ...

Italy - Week dedicated to Legality organised by the Salesian Michele Rua Oratory

Turin, Italy – April 2024 - The Week dedicated to Legality was held from 15 to 19 ...

Poland – Meeting of Salesians in their Quinquennium, 2024

Kopiec, Poland – April 2024 – The meeting of the Salesians in their Quinquennium from ...

Brazil – Indigenous Peoples' Week in Maturacá

Maturacá, Brazil – April 2024 - The educational community of the Imaculada ...

RMG – "Deroga" document: extension of Card. Ángel as Rector Major until 16 August

(ANS - Rome) - On the day of the Episcopal Ordination of Card. Ángel Fernández ...

Moldova – Salesian Youth Meeting "Like Dominic We Love to Serve Others in the World"

Chișinău, Moldova – April 2024 - “Like Dominic we love to serve others in the ...

RMG – The Salesian Rector Major, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, to visit Valencia

(ANS – Roma) – The Salesian Rector Major, Cardinal Ángel Fernández ...

RMG – First Thanksgiving Mass of the Newly Ordained Salesian Archbishops at Sacred Heart Basilica

(ANS - Rome) - The Thanksgiving Eucharistic celebration by the two newly consecrated Salesian ...

Italy – Two New Salesian Shepherds for the Church – Card. Ángel Fernández Artime and Archbishop ...

(ANS – Rome) –The Episcopal Ordination of two eminent sons of Don Bosco, Cardinal ...

(ANS – Rome) – The Salesians of Don Bosco celebrate 164 years of existence today, 18 December. The Salesian Congregation came into existence on 18 December 1859 in Turin, with seventeen young people in addition to the founder, John Bosco, and with the name of the “Pious Society of Saint Francis de Sales”. Since then it has continued to grow and spread throughout the five continents with a clear educational charism directed to the most disadvantaged children and young people and a missionary evangelising spirit without geographical limits.

(ANS – Rome) – The initiator of the Strenna (New Year Message) tradition in the Salesian Family was, of course, Don Bosco. Already at that time the strenna had a message of pedagogical and educational value and Don Bosco also used to take up the theme during the year, on several occasions, in meetings with his boys, just as today the strenna accompanies the entire course of the pastoral activities of the Congregation.

Madrid, Spain - 1934 - A historical photograph of the Salesian house in Atocha, showing the student band. This band performed during the celebrations in honour of Don Bosco's Canonisation on Easter Sunday, 1 April 1934, in Rome. At the centre we see Blessed Enrique Saiz, the then Rector of the house, accompanied by some Salesian Brothers and Blessed Emilio Arce (far left, seated). The Salesian house in Atocha at that time had three musical ensembles: a band of children's instruments, another of cornets and drums with the older boys, and a small orchestra of violins directed by Fr Juan Beobide, a Salesian priest. 

THE RECTOR MAJOR’S MESSAGE, Card. Angel Fernandez Artime, SDB

Two hundred years ago, a little nine-year-old boy, poor and with no future but to be a farmer, had a dream. He recounted it to his mother, grandmother, and brothers in the morning, who found it funny. Grandma concluded, “Pay no attention to dreams.” Many years later, that boy, John Bosco, wrote: “I agreed with my grandmother. However, I was unable to cast that dream out of my mind.”

(ANS – Rome) – 11 November is an unforgettable date for all the Salesians around the world: the day the Congregation began its missionary thrust – a journey that began 148 years ago, on 11 November  1875 with the First Salesian Missionary Expedition, and which it has no intention of stopping. Indeed, the entire Congregation is already looking forward to the 150th anniversary of that date which will be celebrated in two years time in 2025. After not even a century and a half, almost 10,000 Salesians have been sent to mission lands and the educational work that came from Don Bosco extends to over 130 countries on five continents. And the Rector Major's call to send missionaries to places of greatest need continues to be more valid than ever.

There is a statue of Mary Help of Christians which was venerated by two saints: Saint John Bosco and Saint Louis Orione. This is the first statue of the Help of Christians that Don Bosco had in Valdocco and which now belongs to the family of Fr Orione.

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INTERVIEWS

  • Italy – A Salesian on the front line of the war in Ukraine: "Being close counts, words come later"

    (ANS - Rome) - As he tells with a gentleness that does not seem to come from horror, he is "resting a little bit" in Rome these days. Fr Oleh Ladnyuk is a Ukrainian Salesian priest who is a military chaplain at the front, among the soldiers who fight in defence of their country and among the civilians who for over two years have seen their lives wiped out. He brings humanitarian aid where the missiles fall and from those places he helps with the evacuation of young people and adults - so far at least 500 people, but there are probably many more. These days the Salesian – who carries out his ministry in Dnipro and teaches History in a state school in the city – is in Rome to take part with two other priests and a dozen lay people from his country in the "Accompanying when Trauma Hits" course hosted by the Pontifical Salesian University in collaboration with the Faculty of Educational Sciences, with the DON BOSCO NEL MONDO Foundation and the Don Bosco Network. A project that aims to provide theoretical and methodological tools to deal with the traumas caused by war.

EDITORIAL

  • Myanmar – Tragedy of Innocent Children in the midst of Armed Conflicts

    (ANS – Naypyidaw) - Myanmar finds itself immersed in profound grief and anguish as innocent lives, particularly those of children, continue to be mercilessly lost in the enduring armed conflicts. Families are left devastated by the tragic loss of their loved ones while the relentless violence shows no signs of abating. This week, a heartfelt plea from Myanmar reached our community, shedding light on the heart-wrenching death of a young girl Juliet in a military airstrike, prompting a unified call for prayers and action.

EVENTS

SPECIAL REPORTS

  • Latin America – Strengthening Vocational and Educational Commitment Today: 30 Years of the Salesian School in Latin America

    (ANS) – Since the first meeting in Cumbayá (Ecuador), 30 years ago, educational processes on the continent have found a collaborative epicentre which has given rise to the Salesian School in (Latin) America  – ESA, in Spanish – as a forum for reflection and a common path. Many Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) and other groups of the Salesian Family (SF) have enriched this synodal journey, focusing on young people and their integral development.  What are today's demands of us in the educational field? How are we building the Salesian School of the future? Can we further strengthen this great Salesian educational network in America? Some FMAs and Salesians who were at the first meeting in 1994, share their experience and their vision of how this journey has allowed a growth in the understanding of the youth reality, in the strategic decisions within the Provinces themselves and in the challenges that emerge for Salesian education.

MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR

  • I’M A SALESIAN AND I’M A BORORO

    THE MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB

    Diary of a Happy and Blessed Missionary Day

    Dear friends , I’m writing to you from Meruri in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. I write this greeting almost as if it were a journalistic report, because it has been only 24 hours since I arrived in the middle of this Brazilian state.

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