Castel Nuovo Don Bosco, Italy - February 2023 - The Savio Club experience at Colle Don Bosco took place on February 25 and was attended by more than 400 young people from different Salesian houses in Piedmont. After a welcome organized by the animators and an introduction to the day, the youth were divided to begin the activities. The first- and second-grade youth introduced the theme of "doing good," putting oneself at the disposal of others, in the style of Dominic Savio. The third-graders, on the other hand, addressed the theme of trust, in themselves and in others: through activity in groups, they tried to think about how each of them is seen by others, trying to discover qualities and talents, which are God's gift. Through the moment of Reconciliation, they took home some commitments to live well during this time of Lent. The day then ended with the Eucharist and the wish to continue a beautiful and consolidated path, with the help of Don Bosco and Dominic Savio.
(ANS - Turin) – Fr. Daniel Antúnez, head of the Salesian Mission Office "Missioni Don Bosco" in Turin, was in Ukraine immediately after the outbreak of war. He shared the concern and commitment of the Salesians in Lviv and Kyiv to save children without families, saw with his own eyes the women fleeing with their young children... And, with the Salesians and the workers of the Mission Office, did much in these past 12 months to alleviate the suffering of the Ukrainian people. Here is what he shares today, more than a year after the outbreak of war.
(ANS - Rome) - For the cycle "Which Salesians for Today's Youth?", promoted by the Conference of the Provinces of Italy (CISI) - Formation Sector and the Study Center of the Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi (OTV), an interview with Fr. Flaviano D'Ercoli, Director of the Salesian house "Gerini" in Rome, will be broadcast live next Saturday, Feb. 25, from 9 to 10:15 a.m. (UTC+1). The interview is part of the path launched by CISI - Formation and OTV to explore and discuss the guidelines of the Rector Major after the 28th General Chapter and, in the analysis of the Salesian precept of "Da mihi animas," he will address the theme: "The Eucharistic centrality in the evangelization of young people: the charism in search of the new."
(ANS - Rome) - The National Center for Salesian Works (CNOS) and the Salesian Youth Sports Clubs (PGS) have renewed their commitment to work together in the world of youth to achieve, in concrete terms, the mission inspired by Don Bosco through the promotion of sports. In this sense, "Salesians for the Social APS" will play a key role in developing concrete actions to serve the territory with PGS as its partner.
(ANS - Florence) - The National Meeting of Trainees, which had been pending for a few years due to the coronavirus pandemic, was held in Florence at the Salesian Institute of the Immaculate Conception from February 17 to 19, 2023. It involved the young Salesians who are undergoing the formative phase of internship in the six Italian Provinces. Also present were the respective Provincial Vicars, as Delegates for Salesian Youth Formation.
(ANS - Genoa) - The bet is ambitious and gravitates around the number 150: exactly like that 150th birthday that the Don Bosco work of Genoa celebrated and which the Salesian Institute of Sampierdarena has, in the Genoa area, aspired to transform in terms of jobs and concrete opportunities, through timely training linked to the real needs of local companies.
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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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Spain – 33rd Edition of the Edebé Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature: Here Are the Winners(ANS – Madrid) – The 33rd edition of the Edebé Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature has been awarded to Beatriz Giménez de Ory (Madrid, 1972) for her novel Tres niños tristes y medio unicornio (Three Sad Children and Half a Unicorn) and David Lozano (Zaragoza, 1974) for his novel La cacería (The Hunt).
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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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GOOD, FAITHFUL, AND COURAGEOUS SERVANTSTHE MESSAGE OF THE VICAR OF THE RECTOR MAJOR, Fr Stefano Martoglio, SDB
During this Jubilee year, in this difficult world, we are invited to rise up, set out again, and, in newness of life, make our journey as human beings and believers.