(ANS - Rome) - On Tuesday, 27th December 2022, the Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, at the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, presented the Strenna 2023: "AS THE YEAST IN TODAY’S HUMAN FAMILY. The lay dimension of the Family of Don Bosco", to the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and to the whole Salesian Family.
(ANS - Turin) - The fraternal meeting of the Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) and his General Council with the Mother General of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) and her General Council was renewed once again yesterday afternoon, Thursday, December 22. The meeting took place at the Mother House of the Salesians, in Valdocco, and was characterized by the usual atmosphere of friendship and sharing of Salesian spirituality.
(ANS – Rome) – The Past Pupils National Federations from Malta, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary and Spain met in Rome between 16th – 19th December 2022 to launch a new project on Digital Divide and Supporting Unemployed Young People. This is project is financed by the Erasmus+ Programme and the past pupils will create a training programme for unemployed young people to support them in accessing jobs.
(ANS - Rome) - Again in 2021, the Salesian NGO "Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo" (VIS) turned out to be a fully transparent organization in the eyes of donors, public opinion, and the recipients of its projects. This is reported by "Open Cooperazione," a reference portal for the sector that collects and analyzes data on Italian NGOs, through its usual publication, whose goal is to promote awareness of organizations and encourage information sharing and access to data.
Sesto San Giovanni, Italy - December 2022 - The Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, on the morning of Dec. 19, visited the Don Bosco Salesian Institute in Sesto San Giovanni, in the presence of the President of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana, the Lombardy Region's Councilor for Metropolitan City Development, Youth and Communication, Stefano Bolognini, and the mayors of Sesto San Giovanni and Cinisello. "We are honored for this visit, which was a great sign of appreciation towards our educational reality, but above all towards the commitment and passion of our teachers, trainers, and collaborators who every day devote themselves to the good of our students and whose goal is education, but above all human growth," said the Director at the end of the morning. The Minister was able to see students at work on digital education and in the innovative automotive, robotics, and industrial mechanics workshops.
Rome, Italy - Dec. 2022 - On Dec. 17, through the imposition of hands and consecratory prayer of Msgr. Mauro Parmeggiani, bishop of Tivoli and Palestrina, Salesian Cooperator Salvatore Giunta, lecturer in Ethical Religious Culture and Tutor at the Vocational Training Center "Teresa Gerini," of CNOS FAP Lazio, was ordained Permanent Deacon. The newly ordained deacon, born in Catania, spent his entire childhood and youth in the Salesian oratory of La Salette, first as an attendee and then as an animator. Moving to Rome for work, he met and married Emanuela, and the two together made the choice to become Salesian Cooperators. In recent years it was natural for Salvatore and his wife to also welcome the vocation to the diaconate, certain that this will serve to bring the 600 pupils, with whom he serves as a teacher in the vocational center, closer to Jesus, using the style of Don Bosco.
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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.
EDITORIAL
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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).
SPECIAL REPORTS
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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.