Monthly Prayer for Vocations Starts April 30, 2023 – Join us!

by | Apr 28, 2023 | Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Consecrated Life, Prayer Intentions, Vocations

On April 30th, we will celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday and it is World Day of Prayer for Vocations. We decided to start a simple and prayerful monthly Rosary to pray for Salesian vocations. It is open to family and friends of the Salesian Sisters and women in initial formation. The first session will be Good Shepherd Sunday, April 30th at 7:30pm EST. We are planning to hold it every last Sunday of every month through Zoom at 7:30pm EST. I ask that you please extend this invitation and RSVP to me at happynun@salesiansisters.org if you plan to attend. You will receive the Zoom link and more information. Here is a brief summary about Lu-Monferatto: https://40horas.org/en/the-example-of-lu-monferrato/ Thank you so much for your support in this endeavor for vocations! “Let us ask God for vocations by incessant prayer and by our own joyful and constant fidelity.”  C.73   Entrusting you to Mary, our Help and Guide, Sr. Elfie,...

Getting to know Don Bosco: his prophetic dream of the rose arbor

by | Jan 23, 2023 | Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Don Bosco, Salesian Spirituality

20 January 2023 Immagine a cura di Severino Baraldi, per “Don Bosco ti ha sognato” (Vol. 1) – Elledici, 2013 (ANS – Rome) – “We are children of a dreamer” is an expression often used by his successors to refer to the Founder of the Salesian Congregation and Family. And this is not only because of his ability to see far beyond his contemporaries, foreshadowing developments and realities that would be openly manifested only much later; but also because of that mystical ability of his to have as it were “supernatural visions” capable of directing his own path and that of those who followed him. Countless were the dreams reported by Don Bosco, some certainly more significant and relevant than others. The 9-year dream, whose Bicentennial will be celebrated next year, 2024, constitutes among all of them not only the chronological leader, but also the load-bearing lintel of the entire life and action of the Saint of the Young. In the great skein of dreams dreamed by Don Bosco, today we want to recall in particular the one known by the name of the “bower of roses.” It is, among all, a dream that helps to bring the figure of...