(ANS - Rome) - In view of the canonization of Artemide Zatti, set for Sunday, October 9, 2022, the Salesian commission that is coordinating all the activities inherent to the canonization of the Blessed Salesian coadjutor has undertaken to publish material useful to make the figure of the future saint known. Starting today, and in the days to follow, we will present some of these resources, all accessible to the public from the official website dedicated to Zatti's canonization: www.zatti.org
He experienced the hardships of poverty and the uprooting of immigrants. Illness accompanied him from a young age. He studied "as a grown up," looking for what his community needed: someone to care for the poor and sick... Do you really know Artemide Zatti?
(ANS – Rome) - Last month saw the presentation of the new series of articles by Fr. Gildasio Mendes, General Councilor for Social Communication, aimed at exploring the theme, "Educating and Evangelizing Today in the Digital Habitat. Together with young people, toward the future." Today, giving continuity to this series of reflections, the second contribution is published, through which Fr. Mendes invites us to deepen the principal question of this new series: how to educate and evangelize today in the digital environment?
(ANS – Rome) – The Salesian Volunteer Program has been alive in the Congregation since the time of Don Bosco. Mama Margaret was the first Salesian Volunteer who served at the Oratory. Without her, Don Bosco would have struggled even more. At the congregational level, a team of experts has been called to form the Salesian Volunteer Advisory Board. This Advisory Board has the task of helping the Salesian Congregation to strengthen the Salesian Volunteer Program at the world level.
(ANS - Rome) - With only a few days to go before the great event "SDB Change Congress" (Sept. 19-23) that will draw Provincial Economers and staff of the Planning and Development Offices (PDO), Mission Offices, and Salesian NGOs to Rome, Br. Jean Paul Muller, SDB, Economer General of the Congregation and promoter of this initiative, explains the event’s origins and objectives in detail.
(ANS – Old Goa) – The Don Bosco South Asia website was launched by the Rector Major Father Angel Fernandez Artime at Saint Joseph Vaz Spiritual Renewal Centre, Old Goa, on September 14, 2022.
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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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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.
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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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."