(ANS - Rome) - Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major, will preside over the Team Visit to the Central and Northern Europe Region from Tuesday, May 9, 2023, in the Salesian setting of Valdocco. Scheduled until Saturday, May 13, the event will also be attended by the Vicar of the Rector Major, the Sector Councilors (Formation, Youth Ministry, Missions, Social Communication, Economy) and the Regional Councilor, the Rector Major's Central Delegate for the Secretariat for the Salesian Family, and the Provincial Councils of all the Provinces of the Region, for a total of 118 people.
(ANS - Rome) - As of today, the fifth video in the series "It's Time for Chapter 28" is available online, in which the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, illustrates the fifth action plan: "ABSOLUTE PRIORITY for the young, the poorest and the most abandoned and defenseless."
(ANS - Rome) - The Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, begins his visit to the Canary Islands on May 2. It is an institutional visit - as part of the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the Salesians in La Orotava and the centenary of the Salesians in Las Palmas - that will allow the Congregation's Superior General to get a closer look at Salesian work in the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria.
(ANS - Rome) - "In this beginning of the Holy Year of Redemption we have given you the most beautiful gift: we have given you the Pastor, the Bishop; and such a Bishop...." These words, spoken by Pope Pius XI on the day after the episcopal consecration of Bishop Giuseppe Cognata, accompanied the day celebrating the 90th anniversary of that event. In fact, exactly on April 23, 1933, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Rome, the young director of the Salesian House of the Sacred Heart, Fr. Giuseppe Cognata, who had been appointed on the previous March 16 as bishop of Bova, one of the poorest and most deprived dioceses of Calabria, which had been without a pastor for three years, received episcopal ordination. The consecrating bishop was the Primate of Poland, Salesian Cardinal Augustus Hlond, now Venerable; co-consecrators were Bishop Luigi Olivares, Bishop of Sutri and Nepi, also a Salesian and Venerable, and Bishop Romolo Genuardi, Auxiliary Bishop of Palermo, a cousin of Bishop Cognata.
(ANS - Turin) - One of the most interesting aspects of the international meeting of the Editors of the Salesian Bulletin was the presentation of the various aspects of Salesian Bulletin from the different continents. Christoph Sachs, representing Germany and Austria presented on the theme 'How the Salesian Bulletin can reach people in an increasingly secular society in Europe,' while Clarence Watts from Republic of South Africa outlined the theme 'Salesian Bulletin in the service of solidarity and peace.' Fr. Bobby Kannazhath from India presented on the theme 'Communicating the Salesian Spirit through the Salesian Bulletin in the Context of Cultural and Religious Diversity.'
(ANS – Turin) – Today, Sunday 23 April, the second day of the international meeting for those responsible for Salesian Bulletin began with the message of Fr. Giuseppe Costa, the Co-spokesperson of the Rector Major who spoke on the theme: ”The Salesian and Professional dimension of the Salesian Bulletin”.
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Chile – Former Salesian student in the fight against Alzheimer's disease(ANS - Santiago) - Dr Nibaldo Inestrosa, graduate of the Salesian Institute in Valdivia and national prize of Natural Sciences winner, is a pioneer and expert in the study of Alzheimer's disease in the country. In this interview, he offers an insight into the current challenges, but not before reflecting on his formative experience at the Salesian Institute in Valdivia and how this influenced his interest in biology and science.
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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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India – INS youth solemnise Don Bosco’s Feast Day with ‘Ka Sur Kynud S-3’ Grand Finale(ANS – Shillong) – The Youth of St John Paul II, Shillong Province, celebrated the Feast Day of St. John Bosco with the Grand Finale of “Ka Sur Kynud, Season 3.” Organised by Don Bosco Media Network Television, the Social Communication Department of the Province, at Don Bosco Youth Centre, Laitumkhrah, Shillong, this two-month-long singing competition, which imitates the global singing competition The Voice, concluded on 31 January 2025, coinciding with the Solemnity of St John Bosco.
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RMG - St. Francis de Sales Communicator: All for Love(ANS – Rome) - The figure of St. Francis de Sales, chosen by Don Bosco as an example of a communicator, teaches that communication is a matter of the heart. In his expression, "Everything in the Church is love: everything lives in love, for love, and of love," we understand his revolution in the way of communicating, and how communication becomes fruitful when it allows communion and the exchange of one's experiences in a path of accompaniment and collaboration in God's project.
MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR
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WHAT A GIFT TIME IS!THE MESSAGE OF THE VICAR OF THE RECTOR MAJOR,
Fr Stefano Martoglio, SDBThe beginning of the new year is illuminated in our liturgy by the ancient formula with which the Israelite priests blessed the people: "May the Lord bless you, and keep you. May the Lord show His face to you, and have mercy on you. May the Lord turn His countenance to you, and give you peace."