DR Congo - Fr Alphonse Owoudou visits the Kalemie community in the Central African Province

Kalemie, DR Congo – March 2024 – As part of the Extraordinary Visitation to the ...

Spain – The Extraordinary Visitation by Fr Fabio Attard to Spain’s St James the Greater Province ...

(ANS – Urnieta) – The Extraordinary Visitation by Fr Fabio Attard to Spain’s St ...

Czech Republic – The 50th anniversary of the death of Cardinal Štěpán Trochta: celebrating the life ...

(ANS - Francova Lhota) – A significant jubilee is being commemorated in 2024: the 50th ...

Italy – Free to choose: Salesians for Social Work also sign the protocol to remove children from ...

(ANS – Rome) – "The protocol signed on 27 March is a sign of fundamental importance ...

Ecuador - Holy Week, time of mission in the Santo Tomás Apóstol Educational Unit

Riobamba, Ecuador – March 2024 - Holy Week, a period of deep spiritual meaning, becomes a ...

Spain – "FISAT Salesianos Social": a new name for the same entity

(ANS – Valencia) – Since the end of March 2024, the "Ángel Tomás ...

Brazil – Pastoral Coordinators participate in the Provincial meeting in Campo Grande

Campo Grande, Brazil – March 2024 - A Meeting of Pastoral Coordinators from the Salesian ...

Nigeria - Donor funding from Salesian Missions provides support for youth hostel

(ANS – Onitsha) - The Salesian Hostel in the Don Bosco community of Onitsha, located in the ...

RMG – Unifying Symbol of Commitment: The Salesian Missionary Volunteering Cross

(ANS - Rome) – In a meaningful step towards fostering unity and dedication among ...

NEWS

(ANS - Vatican City) - Among the approximately 50,000 faithful who flocked to St. Peter's Square for the canonization of Blesseds Giovanni Battista Scalabrini and Artemide Zatti were several hundred Salesian brothers who came from all over the world. We met some of them who testified to us with their words all their enthusiasm and joy at the recognition of the holiness embodied by Zatti: a holiness of daily life and joy; a holiness that testifies to the beauty of Consecrated Life and Salesian consecration specifically; the holiness of those who seek and fulfill God's will.

In the prayer with the intercession of Artemide Zatti that we have recited for so many years with the great desire to see him among our friends in heaven, the saints, there is an expression that has always caught my attention: "You [Lord] made him a GOOD MAN." It may seem a truism or a simplification to say of a saint that he was a "good man." In this case, I think it is the best recognition we can offer him. In fact, even the Lord Jesus, in the Gospel puts the focus on this detail: "Why do you call me good," He says to the rich young man, "only God is good." The good man is the one who in his clarity lets us see God "directly." And Zatti was just like that. His evangelical and Salesian clarity "shone with normality." They are "the saints next door" as Pope Francis reminds us.

My fraternal greetings to all of you and the joy of being able to share, in the family, a very profound experience that God, in His goodness, gifted me through the intercession of the holy nurse from Patagonia, Br. ZATTI, also rightly called "the relative of all the poor."

First, I would like to clarify: with pleasure I bear this testimony, but I always remember that the key figure in everything is Br. Zatti, who knew how to give his life for the sick. It is important not to stop at what is sensational or extraordinary in the case, but that all this animates us to live our Salesian life with the generosity and joy with which this coadjutor brother lived it.

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  • Italy – "Labs To Future": the final event of the "Labs To Learn" project in Valdocco

    (ANS – Turin) – The final event of the "Labs to Learn" project was held on Tuesday, 5 March 2024, entitled "Labs To Future: The path – The results – The challenges" . The project was selected by the "Con i Bambini" social enterprise  within the framework of the Foundation for the Fight against Child Educational Poverty and came into being with the intention of combating early school leaving and preventing educational poverty, increasing the number of young people with difficulties who fulfil their school obligation, access higher education and/or job placement, and opening the way for personal growth according to their inclinations and aspirations.

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MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR

  • DREAMS THAT KEEP COMING TRUE!

    THE MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR, Card. Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB

    When reflecting on all this, I feel I have a little authority to say: “Dear Don Bosco, your Dream is still VERY ALIVE.”

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