(ANS - Brasília) - This year the traditional missionary weeks animated by young Brazilians who frequent Salesian environments have been adapted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead of formation and visits to the communities, the Provinces have joined in online activities and celebrations, obviously without losing the typical Salesian joy.

(ANS - Occimiano) - Occimiano is a burgh located at the foot of the first gentle hills of Monferrato. Due to its position, it has always enjoyed widely varied agricultural production. The passage of Don Bosco to Occimiano on the evening of 12 October 1861 was definitely significant. There, six years prior, a boy had been born who would carry the name of Don Bosco to the ends of the world: Evasio Rabagliati.

(ANS - Venice) - The saints ... perhaps we should pray to them more and more intensely, appeal more often to their intercession, implore they intervene to save and to save us. The saints are there, but they wait to be disturbed: they propose, but do not impose themselves. Knowing their history and having the image in your pocket is fine, but asking forcefully for their intervention is another thing. Maybe we think we can do it alone, victims of a world that has placed people in their own hands, in the finite, and not in the hands of God, to the Infinite.