(ANS – Buenos Aires) – The Extraordinary Visitation to the Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá Province of Southern Argentina (ARS) continues. In recent weeks, Father Gabriel Romero, Councillor for the America South Cone Region, has visited Salesian centres in Avellaneda, Bernal, San Isidro, Isidro Casanova and met with some provincial teams; for his part, Father Alfonso Bauer, Novice Director of the Inter-Institutional Novitiate in Montevideo, Uruguay, who collaborates with Father Romero in visiting the houses of ARS, visited several works and centers in Buenos Aires.
(ANS – Rome) – In an inspiring display of collaboration and shared vision, the Salesian congregation's Youth Ministry and Missions sectors have united to foster a robust and dynamic Salesian Missionary Volunteering. This groundbreaking initiative traces its origins to the innovative proposal by three dedicated lay individuals who envisioned a unified effort at the congregational level to promote the spirit of Salesian missionary work.
(ANS – Rome) – After the publication of the new document on the Salesian Youth Oratory-Centre on 8 December 2023, prepared by the Salesian Youth Ministry Sector and the result of an in-depth process of reflection, updating and collaboration with all the Provinces, the Sector has scheduled the official presentation worldwide of this document: it will take place on Wednesday, 24 April 2024.
(ANS – Rome) – As part of an Official Visit to West Africa, the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, will get to know and visit, on Saturday 6 April 2024, the Don Bosco centre in Ashaiman, Ghana.
(ANS - Turin) – Two days dedicated to the places that preserve the memory and legacy of the "Greats". It is to celebrate these places full of charm that the Associazione Nazionale Case della Memoria has decided to promote throughout Italy the National Days of the houses of Italian famous people, scheduled for next Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 April 2024. An event that this year has reached its third edition and which has been joined by the Casa Don Bosco Museum, custodian of the memory of the Father and Teacher of Youth.
(ANS – Salamanca) – After studying the final documents prepared by the five committees, the 2024 Provincial Chapter of Spain’s St James the Greater Province (SSM) Province, held from 31 March to 3 April 2024 in Santa Marta de Tormes (Salamanca), has concluded its work. Chapter members studied the two drafts of each of the prepared topics until they reached the final texts that were voted on the morning of Wednesday, 3 April. At the end of the work, the concluding Eucharist was celebrated by Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco.
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INTERVIEWS
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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.
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.
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Italy – On-Line Course on Integral Ecology 2025: An Initiative of the Alliance for the Care of Our Common Home (Pontifical Universities & Atheneums of Rome)(ANS – Rome) – 2025 marks the tenth anniversary of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical letter on the Care for Our Common Home, in which he invited all people of good to “a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet” (Laudato Si’, 14). However, as Pope Francis recognizes in Laudate Deum, the apostolic exhortation published on 4th October 2023, “our responses have not been adequate” and “the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.” (Laudate Deum, 2).
SPECIAL REPORTS
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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."