(ANS – Rome) - The first meeting of executive directors of Don Bosco Techs of Africa, India, ASEAN, America and Spain was held on 11th December 2021 at 11.30 in online platform of ZOOM. The meeting began with the prayer lead by Fr George Mathew.
(ANS - Rome) - Salesian consecrated identity is the leitmotif of the second edition of the cycle of in-depth interviews on the Programmatic Lines following the 28th General Chapter of the Salesian Congregation - a cycle organized by the "Centro Studi Opera Tabernacoli Viventi" in collaboration with the Conference of Salesian Provinces of Italy (CISI) - Formation Sector. Last Saturday, none other than the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, spoke on this topic, and here we provide a summary of his answers.
(ANS – Rome) – Fr. SANTIAGU Thomas, SDB, has been nominated by the Rector Major with the consent of his Council on 10 December 2021 as the 6th Provincial of the St. Joseph Province of Hyderabad (INH) for the period of 2022-2028. The Province of Hyderabad has 209 confreres working in 31 Salesian presences in the Indian States of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Odisha. Fr. Santiagu has currently been serving the Province as the Vice Provincial since 2018. He will be succeeding Fr. Thathireddy Vijaya Bhaskar who has been ably serving the Province as its Provincial for the last six years. Fr. Santiagu joined the Hyderabad Province as a Novice in the year 1994 and made his first profession on 24 May 1995.
(ANS - Rome) - As has become tradition, around the 11th of the month, the monthly commemoration of the First Missionary Sending, the Sector for Missions has released a new video from the "CaglieroLIFE" series. The theme for December is that of testimony. But this is not the only novelty that comes from the Missions: in fact, from 2022 the Sector will be equipped with a new logo.
(ANS - Rome) - During the work of the winter plenary session of the General Council, the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesian Congregation, with the consensus of his Council, appointed the sixth Superior of the Vice Province "Blessed Philip Rinaldi ”of Haiti (HAI): Fr Morachel Bonhomme, who will carry out his mandate for the six-year term, 2022-2028.
(ANS - Rome) - 8 December, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, is never an ordinary day for the Salesians of Don Bosco. Both for the devotion that the Salesians, following the example of their founder, have always nourished towards Our Lady, and towards this specific title of the Mother of God; and for the anniversary of Don Bosco's first meeting with Bartolomeo Garelli, which represents the first of many other similar encounters - for Don Bosco and those who followed him - thanks to which millions of young people at risk all over the world have found meaningful adults able to set them on paths of the future and of communion with God. For this reason, on the occasion of the 180th anniversary of that event, yesterday the Rector Major presided over a solemn Eucharist in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, in Rome, followed by the "Marian circle" in the adjacent courtyard.
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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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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).
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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.