(ANS - Rome) – Elledici has just released the book “Pastorale giovanile 2. Intorno al fuoco vivo del Sinodo. Educare ancora alla vita buona del Vangelo - Youth Ministry 2. Around the living fire of the Synod. Educating again to the good life of the Gospel”, by Fr Rossano Sala, SDB, former Special Secretary at the Synod on Youth. The text ideally places the reader around the fire generated by the synodal process in the universal Church and boasts the invitation to read none other than Pope Francis.
(ANS – Rome) – Fr Alfred Maravilla was elected by the GC28 as the new General Councilor for the Missions. Below is an interview with him, released to ANS.
(ANS - Rome) - During an online meeting held yesterday, 26 August, and organized by the General Councilor for Social Communications, Fr Gildasio Dos Santos Mendes, the Salesian International Commission for Social Communication was established. The meeting was attended by the Coordinators of the Delegates for Social Communication of the various Regions, namely: Zaida Elisa Navarrete (America), Fr Pierluigi Lanotte (Mediterranean Europe), Fr James Gardner (Central-Northern Europe), Fr Ernest Rosario (South Asia), Fr Lijo Vadakkan (Africa-Madagascar) and Fr Peter P Chinh (East Asia-Oceania).
(ANS - Rome) - Among the groups of the Salesian Family, there are not many with their headquarters in Rome. Probably the last to find its general house in the "Eternal City" was the Caritas Sisters of Jesus Congregation. Since their foundation in Miyazaki (Kyushu Island, Japan) in 1937, until ten years ago, their headquarters was in Japan, while their current address is in Rome.
(ANS - Rome) - Fr Gabriel Romero was elected by the GC28 as the new Councilor for the America South Cone Region. Below is an interview with him, released to ANS.
(ANS - Rome) - The venerable Fr Giuseppe Quadrio (1921-1963), who died at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council, for which he had offered his life, was an excellent theologian and a mystic, declared venerable by Pope Benedict XVI on December 19, 2009. His vocational story is a pure and continuous "yes" to Jesus, from infancy until death, at the age of 42 after a long and painful illness. The 10-year-old boy had already made a vow of perpetual virginity to Our Lady: “The vow to be yours alone and of Jesus forever.”
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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.