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Rome, Italy – January 2025 – On Friday, January 24, the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron of the Congregation, a simple inaugural function was held for the renovated Salesian Generalate. The Generalate, which houses the General Council and the Sacred Heart of Jesus community, including the central offices of the Salesian Congregation, was reopened after a three-year renovation of the complex.
Turin, Italy – January 2025 – The 43rd Salesian Family Spirituality Days were held with great success from 16 to 19 January. After weeks of preparation, over 360 people gathered in Valdocco, in the cradle of the Salesian charism, to share moments of reflection, formation and fraternity. The numerous participants gathered around the Vicar of the Rector Major, Fr Stefano Martoglio, to discern together the path to be taken in this Jubilee year, under the motto of Strenna 2025: "Anchored in hope, pilgrims with young people". This edition, in fact, was lived in the atmosphere of the Jubilee and in the memory and momentum of the 150th anniversary of the First Salesian Missionary Expedition.
Rome, Italy – December 2024 – On 27 December, the Vicar of the Rector Major, Fr Stefano Martoglio, presented Strenna 2025: "Anchored in hope, pilgrims with young people" tpat the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. The theme, chosen last July in collaboration with Card. Ángel Fernández Artime, 10th Successor of Don Bosco, is an invitation to deepen, as Christians and as Salesians, the "reasons for our hope". In addition, on 27 December, the Strenna presentation video was presented, made by IME Comunicazione and screened for the occasion as a world premiere.
Turin, Italy – September 2024 – The Sending Mass for the 155th Salesian Missionary Expedition was celebrated on Sunday 29 September, presided over by the Vicar of the Rector Major, Fr Stefano Martoglio. As per tradition, the Eucharist was celebrated in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Valdocco, Turin, the same place where on 11 November 1875 Don Bosco himself addressed his farewell and missionary recommendations to the first ones departing led by Fr John Cagliero. The Missionary Cross was received by 27 Salesians in this 155th Expedition, together with some Daughters of Mary Help of Christians from the 147th FMA missionary expedition and various lay volunteers from the Community of the Mission of Don Bosco (CMB).