(ANS - Rome) - "Knowing Salesian Religious Brothers. A Collection of documents on the Salesian Coadjutor" is a collection published in 5 volumes by the Salesian University Library (LAS - Libreria Ateneo Salesiano – UPS - Rome), edited by the Br Marco Bay SDB and prsented at the end of June 2023 at Valdocco to the Rector Major and his Councillors and collaborators.
Florence, Italy - October 2023 - The National Assembly of the Salesian Youth Movement (SYM) of Italy was held from 20 to 22 October. For the participants, guided by the Holy Spirit, it was an opportunity for discussion, study, prayer, fraternity and sharing. The work followed the synodal method: recognize, interpret and choose, in order to better prepare the pastoral proposal of the SYM for the next triennium.
(ANS - Rome) - He would have had an excellent chance to successfully pursue studies in medicine at university, with a scholarship already prepared for the occasion. Instead - at the end of his Higher Secondary studies - he felt the religious call, became a Salesian... with assignments of increasing responsibility until in 2014 when he was chosen as the 10th successor of Don Bosco, one of the most beloved of saints. Today Fr Ángel Fernández Artime is also a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church.
(ANS - Legnano) - On the 97th World Missionary Day, celebrated on Sunday 22 October 2023, the city of Legnano, on the outskirts of Milan, the birthplace of the Salesian Venerable Fr Carlo Crespi, remembered and proposed the missionary testimony of its illustrious son. Born in the town in Lombardy on 29 May 1891, Carlo Crespi matured his Salesian and missionary vocation that led him 100 years ago, in 1923, to Ecuador. He lived an intense and committed life of ministry for sixty years as a missionary, scientist, musician, apostle of the poor and of mercy.
(ANS - Rome) - The international Salesian community of students of theology, "Zeffirino Namuncurá", in via della Bufalotta 550 in Rome, experienced a memorable evening on Friday, 20 October, 2023 at conclusion of the first of the cultural fest organized by the community to celebrate and enhance its international dimension, as it received a surprise visit from the Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco, the newly appointed Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime.
(ANS - Rome) - On Friday, 20 October 2023, the Salesian network 'Don Bosco Tech Europe' (DB Tech Europe) was inaugurated at the Grand Hotel Palatino in Via Cavour, Rome, in the presence of over 100 people and the presence of Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians.
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INTERVIEWS
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RMG - Preparation, objectives, challenges and perspectives of GC29: in dialogue with the Moderator, Fr Alphonse Owoudou(ANS - RMG) - Just a few days before the beginning of the 29th General Chapter (GC29) of the Salesian Congregation, Fr Alphonse Owoudou, Councillor for the Africa-Madagascar Region and Moderator of GC29, recounts in detail, through an articulate interview, the work preceding and underlying this responsibility, indicating the spirit that will animate it and the attitudes and conditions to make it truly a Cenacle in which the Holy Spirit can act, for the benefit of the Congregation, the Salesian mission and the youth of the world.
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RMG – Don Bosco: “The Fascinating Saint”(ANS - Rome) - Don Bosco is perhaps the most amazing and fascinating saint, history has ever produced. The humble work which he began for the welfare of his poor and abandoned boys in Italy has produced astonishing results, and today there are nearly 14000 Salesians working in 138 countries, and there are more than 200,000 members belonging to the 32 groups of the worldwide Salesian Family sharing the charism of Don Bosco and reaching out to the needy young people.
EVENTS
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India – INS youth solemnise Don Bosco’s Feast Day with ‘Ka Sur Kynud S-3’ Grand Finale(ANS – Shillong) – The Youth of St John Paul II, Shillong Province, celebrated the Feast Day of St. John Bosco with the Grand Finale of “Ka Sur Kynud, Season 3.” Organised by Don Bosco Media Network Television, the Social Communication Department of the Province, at Don Bosco Youth Centre, Laitumkhrah, Shillong, this two-month-long singing competition, which imitates the global singing competition The Voice, concluded on 31 January 2025, coinciding with the Solemnity of St John Bosco.
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United States – CATHOLIC WORLD DAY OF THE SICK: Salesian Missions highlights medical programs for people in need around the globe(ANS – New Rochelle) – Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins Catholic organizations around the globe in honoring the Catholic World Day of the Sick. Every year on Feb. 11, the Pope marks the day with a special message calling for spiritual and physical closeness to all those who are ill. Saint John Paul II instituted the day “to encourage the people of God, Catholic health institutions and civil society to be increasingly attentive to the sick and to those who care for them.”
MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR
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WHAT A GIFT TIME IS!THE MESSAGE OF THE VICAR OF THE RECTOR MAJOR,
Fr Stefano Martoglio, SDBThe beginning of the new year is illuminated in our liturgy by the ancient formula with which the Israelite priests blessed the people: "May the Lord bless you, and keep you. May the Lord show His face to you, and have mercy on you. May the Lord turn His countenance to you, and give you peace."