(ANS - Turin) - Giving thanks to God for the gift of Artemide Zatti's holiness and celebrating the great value of their vocation together with all Salesian Brothers around the world: this was the meaning of the Eucharistic Concelebration presided over yesterday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, by Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, at the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Valdocco (Turin), in front of about 650 Salesian coadjutors who came from all over the world for the canonization events of Artemide Zatti, SDB.
(ANS - Turin) - For the hundreds of Salesian brothers who came to Rome for the canonization of Artemide Zatti, SDB, the moments of celebration, spirituality, communion, and gratitude are not yet over. The organizing committee that took care of all events related to the canonization also prepared a pilgrimage in Don Bosco's footsteps for all of them. Begun on Saturday, October 8, with the discovery of the places lived and frequented by the Saint of the Young in the capital of Italy, the program is completed these days in Turin, Castelnuovo Don Bosco, and in the traditional Salesian sites of Piedmont.
(ANS - Rome) - After months of waiting and fervent preparations throughout the Salesian Family, yesterday, Oct. 9, 2022, Salesian coadjutor Artemide Zatti was proclaimed a saint; but the events organized to celebrate this historic moment - the canonization of the first non-martyr Salesian - are not over. In fact, the Rector Major invites the entire Congregation and the Salesian Family to celebrate a Eucharist of thanksgiving for the canonization of Br. Artemide Zatti on Tuesday, October 11, in every part of the world and at the most opportune times for individual contexts: it will be a way to thank God for this great gift as a global community. For his part, the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, will preside over the Eucharistic Concelebration of Thanksgiving for the gift of Artemide Zatti's sainthood at the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin-Valdocco, which will be attended by Salesian brothers who have come from all over the world to Italy because of the canonization.
(ANS - Rome) - The canonization of Artemide Zatti was an event that filled all of Argentina with joy and pride, the country where the Salesian coadjutor spent his entire life of dedication to the sick and the poorest. Although born in Italy, he lived in Argentina from the age of 17 until his death, and has thus been called the third Argentine saint, after St. Héctor Valdivielso Sáez, and St. José Gabriel del Rosario, better known in his homeland as the cura brochero. That is why today, Monday, Oct. 10, at the Argentine National Church in Rome, Argentine Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, presided over a Mass of thanksgiving for Zatti's canonization for the Argentine faithful gathered in Rome.
(ANS - Rome) - After the morning of celebration and festivity experienced in the Vatican together with the Pope and the Rector Major, and in anticipation of the solemn canonization ceremony of Artemide Zatti, scheduled for Sunday morning, on the afternoon of Saturday, October 8, about 650 Salesian coadjutors from all over the world filled the streets of Rome to discover together, as brothers consecrated in the same charism, the places of Don Bosco in the capital of Italy.
(ANS - Perugia) - On October 2, 1922, the first Salesians arrived in Perugia and began their mission of educating and training young people, in the burgh of Porta Sant'Angelo. That is why just last Sunday, on the exact centenary of their arrival, the city's Archbishop, Msgr. Ivan Maffeis, presided over a solemn Eucharist in the church of St. Augustine, in Porta Sant'Angelo, during which he spoke words of profound esteem and great closeness toward the Sons of Don Bosco.
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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.
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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.