Rome, Italy - December 2019 - The General Council's winter plenary session takes place from 2 December to 24 January 2020, the last before the GC28 in Turin-Valdocco from 16 February to 4 April 2020.
(ANS - Rome) - When interviewed or participating in surveys and studies, young people around the world say that their priorities in life are love, family, relationships ... But in today's society, so fluid in all its ties and marked by precariousness, children often lack the educational cues and reference models among adults that would enable them to achieve or fulfil their wishes and ambitions. To try to answer to this challenge, the Department for Youth Ministry has organized a seminar on "Accompaniment and Affectivity", which started Monday 25th and ends today, Friday 29th, at the Salesian Central Office in Rome.
(ANS - Rome) - “Music has always had a fundamental importance, since the founding of the oratories, for Don Bosco. We have photographs in which he is depicted together with the musical band.” The speaker is Fr Maurizio Palazzo, in charge of musical animation of the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians, who in the video "Interviews with the eyes of ...", 80 days from the beginning of the 28th General Chapter, presents the organ in the Basilica.
(ANS - Rome) - The Economer General's Office, together with various members of the "Don Bosco Network" and the Missions Sector, have organized an international Salesian conference on green, clean and renewable energy; its title: "Energy Forever". Taking place 26-27 November, in Rome, the conference intends to adopt Sustainable Development Goal No. 7 on clean and accessible energy and, in light of "COP25" (25th United Nations Conference on climate change, scheduled in Madrid from 2 to 13 December), focussing on the definition of a common perspective on this issue and the adoption of concrete commitments.
(ANS - Rome) - 87 days from the beginning of the 28th General Chapter, the "Interviews with the eyes of ..." continue, the videos made by ANS in collaboration with the IMEComunicazione team, in which the Salesians of Valdocco present the Mother House.
(ANS - Rome) - Tomorrow, November 19, the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, leaves for a four-day Animation Visit to the "St. Thomas of Canterbury" Province of Great Britain. This is an ordinary commitment for the Rector Major, who has among his specific tasks that of animating Salesian communities throughout the world; but at the same time it is something very special: it is the last visit he will make in this six-year term, and with it he shall be able to fulfill his wish to visit all the Provinces and Vice Provinces of the Congregation during his mandate.
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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.