(ANS - Rome) - He has already worked in the Youth Ministry Department for several years, but is now called to lead it: Spanish, 52, Fr Miguel Angel García Morcuende has been the new General Councilor of a fundamental sector for the Congregation since last March, which guides the work with and for all children and young people. Today he introduces himself to the readers of ANS.
Rome, RMG - September 2020 - The meeting of the Formation Commission of the Interamerica Region takes place from 7 to 11 September, through the Zoom platform. Chaired by Fr Ivo Coelho, General Councilor for Formation, the meeting sees the participation of the Provincial Delegates for Formation of the Salesian Provinces that make up the Interamerica Region. During this time, there will be moments of personal study, group work and sharing in the assembly, to prepare a draft of the Regional Formation Plan for 2020-2026 in the light of the 28th General Chapter and to know the current challenges of the Formation of Salesians of Don Bosco.
(ANS – Rome) – History will register in its manuals and essays the transforming experience lived by humanity in this time and in our space. In our educative and pastoral spaces, a "new normality" is drawn.
(ANS - Rome) - "Young Salesians and accompaniment - Orientations and Guidelines". The first 'seed' of reflection that 5 young Salesians toss to their colleagues and all the Salesians in their 3-minute video in 5 languages for the month of September is to open our eyes to this awareness: there is a large number of young Salesians. It is a charism, a gift, a challenge: how to be and become increasingly more the face of Don Bosco, be close to the millions of young people who are clamoring for such proximity? The GC28 encouraged young people to be true and proper protagonists and not just beneficiaries: this is true above all for those thousands of young people who are or are about to become Salesians.
(ANS - Rome) - About 8 months after the beginning of the first recognized cases of Covid-19, Asia, the continent that first experienced the effects of the new coronavirus, seems to be slowly returning to "normalcy". In fact, notes of cautious hope come from various works and missions spread throughout the East Asia-Oceania Region, which it is hoped will soon spread to the whole world.
(ANS - Rome) - A series of 10 videos, short and packed with content, to be used as "small seeds" to sprout reflection on the text Young Salesians and accompaniment - Orientations and directives: this is the new proposal that the Formation Department launches to the Salesian houses of initial formation. An initiative that starts today, with an introductory video that kicks off the entire journey and which intends to illustrate the proposed path month by month until June 2021.
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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.