(ANS - Rome) - The first video for the Salesian Missionary Day (RMG) 2022 has been released. New this year, it will be made in TikTok - POV (Point of View) style.
DON BOSCO DIGITAL AND VIRTUAL REALITY - PART FOUR
Fr. Gildasio Mendes SDB
Photography is one communicative feature of Don Bosco. He was one of the first saints to enjoy being photographed. The motifs and scenarios of Don Bosco's photographs are very well studied, strategically enacted with communicative objectives of profound impact and great persuasive power. Don Bosco understood the power of images and the effectiveness of a recorded moment for stirring people’s emotions.
(ANS - Rome) - In view of the feast day of St. John Bosco, next January 31, Fr Giuseppe Costa, co-spokesman for the Salesian Congregation, speaks to us about the enduring relevance of the figure and method of the Saint of Youth.
(ANS - Rome) - The VIII General Assembly of Salesian Institutions of Higher Education (IUS) is being held these days (January 24-28) at Salesian Headquarters in Rome. On the sidelines of the assembly, we asked a few questions to the Councilor for Youth Ministry, Fr Miguel Angel García Morcuende, to examine the value and prospects of the IUS for the Congregation.
(ANS - Rome) - During the winter plenary session of the General Council, the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, with the consent of his Council, appointed the new Secretary of the General Council, namely Fr Guido Garino, a Salesian from the Special Circumscription of Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta (ICP), who will assume the position beginning in August.
(ANS - Rome) - When walking by the external balcony one enters the little room in Valdocco that Don Bosco lived in from 1853 to 1861, later the antechamber of the room where he lived until the end of his life, one retraces exactly the same journey that on the evening of January 26, Michele Rua and Giovanni Cagliero, both 16 years old, made, and with them Giuseppe Rocchietti, 17, and Giacomo Artiglia, the youngest, 15.
PHOTO GALLERY
INTERVIEWS
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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.