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Mass and Chapter's official opening session on Facebook live broadcasts, Saturday

(Turin, 20 February 2020) – After this first preparatory week to Chapter work, with the presentation of the reports of the General Council on the six-year term just ended and the introduction to the three thematic groups, next Saturday the GC28 will fully enter into the heart of the matter. Mass and Chapter's official opening session on Facebook live broadcasts, Saturday 22 February.

To bring the contents and spirit of the 28th General Chapter of the Salesian Congregation to all the Salesian houses across the globe, there is nothing better than making it possible for everyone to access Valdocco, at least online.

The opening Mass, in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians, will be broadcast live in the original language at 8:00 am (UTC + 1). Subsequently, the official opening session will be broadcast from the “Teatro Grande” di Valdocco with the live broadcast available in four language channels (Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese).

Numerous civil and religious authorities are expected to attend the solemn ceremony: the mayor of the city of Turin, Chiara Appendino, was invited; the archbishop of Turin, Msgr. Cesare Nosiglia; Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life; numerous Salesian cardinals and prelates: Cardinals Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Tarcisio Bertone and Ricardo Ezzati; Monsignors Enrico dal Covolo, Adrianus van Luyn, Mario Toso, Vitaliy Krivitskiy, Calogero La Piana, Peter Štumpf, Joaquim da Silva Mendes, Luc Van Looy, Ludwig Schwarz, and others.

The participation by the Superiors Major and Directors of the Salesian Family will also be very large and of great importance. In fact, there will be:

- Mother Yvonne Reungoat, Mother General of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians;

- Antonio Boccia, World Coordinator of the Salesian Cooperators;

- Renato Valera, President of the Association of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA) Primary;

- the World Heads of Don Bosco Volunteers and Volunteers with Don Bosco;

- the Presidents of the Confederations of the SDB and FMA Past Pupils, Michal Hort and Maria Maghini respectively;

- Dina Moscioni, General Coordinator of the Witnesses of the Risen One;

- deacon Guido Pedroni, General Custodian of the Community of the Mission of Don Bosco;

- Fr Joe D’Souza, SDB, founder and superior of the Disciples;

- Fr Jonas Abib, SDB, founder and superior of Cancão Nova;

- Mother Teresia Furuki Ryoko, Superior General of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus;

- Sister Luigina Bellomo, Vicar General of the Apostles of the Holy Family;

- and Delegations and representations of other groups still.

After Mass and greetings, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major, will deliver the opening speech, at the end of which the Chapter Regulator, Fr Stefano Vanoli, will officially declare the GC28 open.

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(Rome, 8 January 2020) - In view of the 28th General Chapter of the Congregation, the Salesians of Don Bosco convene a Press Conference to illustrate the different realities in which they operate throughout the world and what the strengths and challenges, new opportunities and risks for the Congregation in today's social and ecclesial context are. The invitation to journalists and media is for Thursday 23 January, 11:00 am, at the "Sacro Cuore" in Rome at Via Marsala 42, (near Termini Station).

Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB, Superior General of the Salesian Congregation, will speak at length about what missionaries do in various parts of the world and in different religious, social and cultural contexts.

He will also be joined by Salesian cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, archbishop of Rabat (Morocco), who shall offer his views and specific knowledge on the work of the sons of Don Bosco in the Muslim context, as well as in Latin America, where he has served as a missionary, and in Spain, his country of origin.

On this same occasion, the objectives and expectations of the 28th General Chapter of the Congregation, scheduled in Turin from 16 February to 4 April 2020, will also be illustrated, its theme: "Which Salesians for today's young people?". Fr Stefano Vanoli, the Salesian coordinating the work of the Chapter, will be present.

The press conference will be moderated by Fr Giuseppe Costa, Salesian, journalist, former director of the Libreria Editrice Vaticana (LEV), the Vatican Publishing House.

 

At the end of the press conference, there will be time for a Q & A session and an aperitif.

Upon request, it will also be possible to reserve personal interviews.

For further information and to confirm your participation, please refer to the following contacts:

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(Rome14th May 2019) - Given last year's success, the experience of the world Novena to Mary Help of Christians is being repeated in 2019, with testimonies on the sanctity of the Salesian Family and the comment of the Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime.

The initiative, launched for the first time in May 2018, for the 150th anniversary of the consecration of the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin, is repeated again this year, seeing as it is the 150th anniversary celebration of the foundation of the Association of Mary Help of Christians, which has scheduled its VIII International Congress of Mary Help of Christians (in Buenos Aires, Argentina) this next November.

If last year the guiding theme was Don Bosco's dreams, this year the novena deepens "the beatitudes of the Salesian Family", presented by the Rector Major at the last Spirituality Days of the Salesian Family. In this way the novena, in addition to being a tribute to Mary Help of Christians and an instrument of devotional unity among all the groups of the Salesian Family, again relaunches the central theme of the 2019 Strenna: the sanctity of everyday life.

The structure of the novena provides a different video for each day which will present:

  • one of the Salesian Beatitudes;
  • a motto related to the Magnificat of Mary;
  • a reflection on a figure of Salesian holiness;
  • the comment of the Rector Major;
  • a testimony from a member of the Salesian Family;
  • the final prayer.

The novena videos shall be available in Italian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Polish, on various channels: the sdb.org site, the ANS channel on YouTube, and the ANS Facebook page. The first day’s videos are already online.

The initiative of the Novena to Mary Help of Christians is promoted by the Rector Major, with the support of the Department for Social Communication, and produced by ANS, in collaboration with "IME Comunicazione". Fr Bruno Ferrero, SDB, Director of the Italian Salesian Bulletin, Fr Carlo Cassatella and Antonella Colucci collaborated on the texts.

The videos of the novena, can thus be used for prayer and animation in the communities, parishes and centres of the Salesian Family across the globe.         

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