NEWS PHOTOS
Tainan, Taiwan - 5 March 2016 – Eleven new members of the Salesian Cooperators made their promise during the Eucharist presided over by Cardinal Joseph Zen, SDB, in the parish of Mary Help of Christians in Tainan.
Barra do Garças, Brazil - 15 March 2016 - The Salesians of the São Marcos community and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians took part in the first meeting on indigenous formation of the Indigenous Missionary Council. The meeting was coordinated by Fr Mario Bordignon, SDB, and Sister Maria de Lourdes Araújo Duarte, of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.
Rome, Italy - March 2016 - On 16 March, the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, met with the Canção Nova mission in Rome for the first time. During the meeting the members of the Canção Nova community were introduced, and there was discussion on the collaboration that had taken place during the bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco and on future projects.
New Rochelle, United States – March 2016 - Over the March 11-13 weekend, six Salesian Lay Missioner candidates from as many U.S. states visited Salesian Missions and the provincial house in New Rochelle as part of the process of discerning whether they might become SLMs later this year. Their weekend included presentations on Don Bosco and the Salesians, how to discern, the Salesian oratory criteria, and the Salesian Lay Missioner program itself. A panel of returned SLMs discussed mission with them. They visited four Salesian works in New Rochelle and took part in prayer and meals at each site. A second discernment weekend for additional SLM candidates is planned in May. Those who are accepted into the SLM program will undertake three weeks of orientation in late July and August and be commissioned at the end of a retreat.