FULL ENGLISH TEXT OF “LIKE THE STARS OF HEAVEN” – SALESIAN SAINT BIOGRAPHIES

by | Jan 8, 2022 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, books, Publications, Salesian Saints, Salesian Spirituality

Salesian Family Saints 2022 Dossier    Dossier for download:   2021 Dossier Postulazione EN.doc   Salesian Sanctity presentation 2021 EN – SANCTITY FS+.pdf   As the stars of heaven (English version) Like_Stars_jan2021.pdf             +     Source: FULL ENGLISH TEXT OF “LIKE THE STARS OF HEAVEN” – SALESIAN SAINT...

The Salesian Bulletin at the time of Don Bosco

by | Dec 2, 2021 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Don Bosco, Publications, Salesian Cooperators

The Salesian Bulletin is an original creation by Don Bosco who founded it in August 1877. Don Bosco himself was it’s first director. The first “official” issue of the Bulletin opens with a letter from Don Bosco: “To the Salesian Cooperators”. In the first draft of the regulation of the Cooperators, Don Bosco wrote: “Each month, the members will be given an overview of the things proposed, done or that they intend to do through a printed Bulletin or leaflet.” (Biographical Memoirs XI, 538). In 1879, it was published for the first time in French and in 1881 in Buenos Aires, the first “Boletín Salesiano” was published in Spanish. Today it is present in all 5 continents, with 59 editorial offices around the world. RELATED ARTICLE(S) The Valdocco printing press RMG – Fr. Gildasio Mendes: “The Internet is a vast network of human and cultural rituals” Italy – Young people narrate Don Bosco. Three videos on “Memoirs of the...

Spreading Hope through Audio and Video

by | Jun 9, 2021 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Catechesis, Education, Hope, Publications, Salesian Spirituality, Technology, Teens and Young Adults

Spreading hope through audio and video by Jessica Oata & Abigail Seta Port Moresby: Media students from eight catholic agency schools in Port Moresby were part of the 3rd Media Education Seminar (MES) that aimed at spreading hope through audio and video productions. LINK TO RESOURCE MANUAL It was held at the Emmaus Conference Centre from 4th- 6th June under the theme ‘Hope amidst Covid-19’ with animation of the program by the Social Communications Commission (SOCOM) of the Catholic Bishops Conference. The program commenced on the evening of Friday, 4th June with the first session on creating school news bulletin boards. This was followed by a time of reflection and discussion of issues faced by young people today. The second day of the program focused on producing jingles to promote their schools and attract prospective students. Radio interviews was the second session of the day that had the students interviewing their teachers. Each of the productions were recorded and edited by Radio Maria. Following these, the third session gave the students the opportunity to speak on camera for 20 seconds on issues in PNG. Storyboard and film shooting were the final sessions on the third day of the program...

Tomorrow, May 19, 2021, presentation of IX volume of critical edition of Don Bosco’s Epistolary

by | May 18, 2021 | a current event, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, books, Don Bosco, Online Course, Publications, Salesian Spirituality

  Tomorrow, May 19, 2021, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. (ITALY TIME; 9AM-10:30AM NY time), at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, the ninth volume of the critical edition of Don Bosco’s Epistolary will be presented. It collects a little less than 500 letters written by the saint in the years 1884-1886. Letters of government, letters of animation, letters of daily affairs, letters of educational formation, letters of congratulations and good wishes, letters of requests for economic aid with relative thanks… in short, a series of letters of various kinds, many of which are unpublished, addressed to every category of people: from the highest civil and religious authorities (emperors, ministers, popes and cardinals) to simple laymen, men, women and young people.  It will be broadcast: https://youtu.be/l6X0wL_LKkM Although elderly and physically almost a “shadow of his former self,” in the three years under consideration Don Bosco continued undaunted to govern and animate the Congregation through his correspondence. He even extended them to new correspondents scattered throughout the world: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, Polish, English, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Chilean, Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian. What emerges is a new face of Don Bosco, in many ways current, which with the nine volumes...

What’s our story? A Handbook for all who works in the Catholic Media

by | Apr 23, 2021 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Evangelization, Francis de Sales, Publications

23 April 2021 This is a spiritual handbook, aimed at providing guidance and spiritual nourishment for all those who find the Catholic media to be their vocation. The handbook, which features the patron saint of Journalists, St Francis De Sales on the front cover, seeks to explain to everyone who works in the Catholic media the dignity of their vocation and their own special spirituality. It helps share some of the background of the patrons of Catholic Media and includes suitable prayers relevant to this profession and gives a special emphasis to the patron saint of publishers & editors, Don Bosco. Another key inclusion is the chapter wherein words of encouragement from several authors who have had rich journalistic careers working as members of the Catholic Media, as well as explaining their passion for their vocation. These authors are from around the Australasian region and feature a piece written by Fr Frank Freeman SDB, the author, as well as Fr Ambrose Pereira SDB, a prolific writer and avid formator of Salesian Media projects from the Papua New Guinea & Solomon Islands province. Fr Frank Freeman SDB, Editor of the Australian Salesian Bulletin, has spent the past 15 years investigating...