(ANS - Rome) - The winter plenary session of the General Council's work ended last Friday, January 27, 2023. After almost two months of intense activity, Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, wanted to share what had been accomplished during this time with the community of Valdocco, which hosted the sessions, and he did so with the traditional "Salesian goodnight" message.
(ANS - Rome) - Today, 31 January, on the occasion of the Feast of St. Giovanni Bosco, the new official publication of the Salesian Congregation called "Salesian Bulletin OnLine" is being inaugurated and officially launched, accessible to anyone at the address www.donbosco.press.
(ANS - Rome) - Don Bosco is perhaps the most amazing and fascinating saint, history has ever produced. Every saint carries within him or her a particular charism and fascination, but in Don Bosco once can gauge a rich and perfect combination of human and divine qualities. It is amazing to note, how a simple, poor, semi-orphan peasant boy from Becchi, could rise up to the founding of a congregation, and sow the seed for the rise of a great movement, the Salesian family which has more 400,000 members all over the world. Today his followers, the Salesians of Don Bosco are more than 14,000 and present in 134 countries of the world reaching out to the young people most in need.
(ANS - Rome) - After the great success of the first edition of the "Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival" (DBGYFF), carried out worldwide in November 2021, the Social Communication Sector of the Salesian Congregation has decided to propose the second edition of the world-class Salesian youth film festival, aimed also in this case at bringing together and involving young people from all over the world, and especially this time those from Salesian environments, to be bearers of a message of peace and hope and to be protagonists of the change the world needs. "Love builds Peace and Solidarity" is the guiding motto of this second edition, scheduled for 13-14 October.
The twelfth issue of “ANS News Video” the monthly video bulletin that reviews the most important events of the Congregation and the Salesian Family. This new video features the appointment for december.
(ANS - Rome) - Tomorrow, Jan. 31, on the Feast Day of St. John Bosco, a new official publication of the Salesian Congregation, called "Bollettino Salesiano OnLine," will be launched. It is a project of the Rector Major and will be published in seven languages solely online, as the name itself states.
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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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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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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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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."