by SrDeniseSickinger | Mar 31, 2023 | a current event, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Education, Evangelization, Events / Calendar, Faith, Formation, FREE Catholic resources, Online Course
Original publication: https://aleteia.org/2023/03/30/free-summer-audit-program-and-life-changing-classes-are-a-gift-to-the-church/ Courtesy of St. Bernard’s Adjunct professor Fr. Peter Van Lieshout Zoe Romanowsky – published on 03/30/23 The COVID shutdown led St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry in Rochester, New York, to find a way to offer formation, education, and hope to students around the world. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry in Rochester, New York, wanted to give back to the community. The school, led by President Dr. Stephen Loughlin and Vice President Dr. Matthew Kuhner, thought there was no better way to do that than to give the gift of learning — to offer formation, education, and hope in an accessible way during a trying time. That’s how the school’s One Free Summer Audit initiative was born. The initiative ended up being so successful, it’s become an important feature of every summer semester. Now in its fourth year, the program continues to attract people from across the country and around the world, last year drawing over 350 auditing students — a 92% increase in participants compared to the year before. Auditors were from Ireland, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, South Africa, Nigeria, Germany, Italy, Indonesia, and several other countries, as well as Americans from 35...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Jan 18, 2022 | a current event, Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Blessed Sacrament, Don Bosco, Francis de Sales, FREE Catholic resources, Online Course, Salesian Family, Salesian Saints, Salesian Spirituality, Sanctity, Spiritual Life, Spirituality Days
Saint Francis de Sales inspiring paths of holiness (ANS – Rome) – During the Spirituality Days of the Salesian Family 2022, dedicated to the spiritual and pastoral study of the Rector Major’s Strenna centered on St. Francis de Sales, Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni, Postulator General for the Causes of Saints of the Salesian Family, offered a contribution that highlights how “our journey to holiness and the promotion of the Causes of Beatification and Canonization of our Salesian Family draw great inspiration and strong motivation from him.” In fact, from his person and his doctrine emanate an impression of rare fullness, demonstrated in the serenity of his intellectual research, but also in the richness of his affections, in the “sweetness” of his teachings that have had a great influence on the Christian conscience. One could say, then, that Francis de Sales, both in his most representative works (Introduction to the Devout Life and Treatise on the Love of God) and in his continuous pastoral praxis, presents himself on the scene of the history of the Church as one of the most representative forerunners of what Vatican II calls the “universal vocation to holiness” (chapter 5 of the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium). In his major works,...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Jan 5, 2022 | a current event, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Francis de Sales, Online Course, Rector Major, Salesian Family, Salesian Family Gatherings, Salesian Spirituality, Spirituality Days, Strenna
REGISTER BEFORE JANUARY 10TH ON OUR HOMEPAGE: https://DonBoscoSalesianPortal.org 05 January 2022 (ANS – Rome) – There is great anticipation throughout the Salesian world for the 2022 edition of the Spirituality Days of the Salesian Family. With little more than a week to go before this important event (January 13-16, 2022) which will gather, in person and in digital mode, thousands of members of the groups of the great tree planted by Don Bosco starting from the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales, the Secretariat for the Salesian Family has announced the detailed program of the appointments: a program rich in events, opportunities for reflection and deepening, moments of communion, sharing and spirituality. Following the scheme that proved to be very effective last year, the SFSD 2022 foresee a double level of participation with live broadcasting on each of the four days from 13:00 to 15:00 (UTC + 1) of the worldwide appointments, and the creation of complementary activities at the regional level, managed with different times and methods, by the respective teams. The world events will all be broadcast live by ANS on its Facebook page and YouTube channel, in five languages (Italian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese). Thursday 13 begins with the opening session, which...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Nov 3, 2021 | a current event, Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, FREE Catholic resources, God's Word, Online Course, Sacred Scripture
Join us on a 2-week guided reading journey through the Catholic Church’s central document on divine revelation! NOVEMBER 8th – 19th, 2021 Vatican II’s document on revelation, known by the first two words of the Latin text Dei Verbum, the “Word of God,” is of signal importance in the life of the Church, since it speaks of the process by which God communicates to his people. The entire purpose of this communication is to draw us into friendship with God. What could be more significant for all believers, but especially for teachers, catechists, theologians, and preachers? It also has great significance for those embarked on the Church’s mission of evangelization. The council fathers recognized the need for a renewal when it came to reading and appreciating the Bible. They called for greater study of the Bible among laypeople, placing the Scriptures more fully at the center of the liturgy, and making the sacred writings the “soul of sacred theology” (DV 24). But that dream is still, I believe, largely unrealized. In point of fact, when we consult the numerous studies of the ever-increasing army of the religiously unaffiliated, we discover that the Bible is often a prime reason why people, especially...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Nov 2, 2021 | a current event, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Events / Calendar, Online Course, Rector Major
02 November 2021 (ANS – Rome) – The two days, 30-31 October 2021 – of the International Conference dedicated to Rector Major Fr Paolo Albera on the first centenary of his death (29 October 1921) was held in precise manner as planned. Organized by the Salesian Historical Institute – the Istituto Storico Salesiano (ISS) – at the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS), the conference was promoted by the current Rector Major Fr Ángel Fernández Artime. The reports of the first day analyzed the operational guidelines and the results of the governing action of Fr Albera as Rector Major with a look also at the historical period he lived and on the progress of the Salesian houses in America that he visited at the beginning of the century. The second day was dedicated to the presentation of the spiritual guidelines he gave, both to the Salesians and to the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA), to the reception of the Code of Canon Law in the Salesian Constitutions, and to the image of Fr Albera in the Salesian Bulletin. In conclusion, space was given to the indication of the sources of and about Fr Albera preserved in the Salesian Central Archives (ASC), after an...
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