NEWS
(ANS) – Hundreds of East Asia-Oceania Region Salesian Family members from Pakistan to Samoa, from Mongolia to Australia came "together" in the already traditional virtual encounter of SF Spirituality Days. This Bicentennial anniversary of Don Bosco's Dream (1824-2024) produced some extraordinary results! Last Friday and Saturday (19-20 January ) at 7 PM Manila time, from the Don Bosco Canlubang studio animated by young Salesians in vibrant, joyful and family style.
(ANS – Vatican City) – On the occasion of the feast of Saint Francis de Sales, Patron of Journalists, the Holy See Press Office has published the Holy Father’s Message for the 58th World Day of Social Communications which this year will be celebrated, in many countries, on 12 May 2024. The theme chosen this year by Pope Francis, already announced on 29 September 2023, is topical: “Artificial intelligence and wisdom of the heart: for fully human communication”.
(ANS - Rome) - The second edition of “Voices” in the East Asia-Oceania Region will take place next weekend, 27-28 January 2024. After the last edition held in Hua Hin, Thailand, last September, this new event of listening and discussions with the young people who are most important to the Salesians of Don Bosco - those at risk of marginalisation - will take place at the “Don Bosco” centre in Kep, Cambodia, and will be immensely useful to listen to the indigenous youth.
(ANS – Rome) – The Oratory of St Francis de Sales was the small seed for the great Salesian work. With the small group of children and young people who were the oratory, Don Bosco founded the new religious congregation which he placed under the protection and patronage of Saint Francis de Sales, so as to give its members the name “Salesians”.
(ANS – Rome) – As has been a tradition for some years, on the day we celebrate St. Francis of Sales, the theme for Mission Day is launched, “Builders of Dialogue.” After having seen collaboration with Social Communication and Youth Ministry, this year it is Formation that has made a fundamental contribution to this journey.
(ANS – Rome) – On the feast of St Francis de Sales it is significant to present the Dossier of the Salesian General Postulation as a strong invitation to renew the universal call to holiness so dear to the Bishop of Geneva and taken up in solemn form by Vatican II: “Fortified by so many and such powerful means of salvation, all the faithful, whatever their condition or state, are called by the Lord, each in his or her own way, to that perfect holiness whereby the Father Himself is perfect” (Lumen Gentium, 11).