The solemn and evocative rite of sending off the departing members of the Salesian Missionary Expedition shall take place within the Eucharistic Celebration, which will be presided over by the Rector Major in Valdocco, in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin at 12:30 p.m. (UTC+2).
You can follow the Celebration live by connecting to the ANS - Salesian Info Agency Facebook page, and on the Basilica Maria Ausiliatrice Turin Youtube channel.
In the attached map, it is possible to read the names, origins and destination Provinces of the missionaries: according to the new Salesian missionary paradigm, missions today "cannot be understood only in geographical terms, of movement to 'mission lands' as in the past, but also in sociological, cultural terms, and even in a presence in the digital continent; today, missionaries come from and are sent to the five continents," as Fr. Alfred Maravilla, General Councilor for Missions, reminds us.
With this new Missionary Expedition, therefore, the great dream of Don Bosco and Mother Mazzarello continues.
