by SrDeniseSickinger | Feb 26, 2021 | a current event, Salesian Family, Salesian Saints, Salésiens Coopérateurs
Tomorrow, Saturday 27 February, will be the 60th anniversary of the death of the Servant of God Matilde Salem (1904-1961), a lay woman, very active in charity, who, thanks also to the collaboration with the Salesians of Middle East, knew how to live an authentic life of faith and benefit many needy people. Matilde Salem (née Chelhot) was born in Aleppo on November 15, 1904. The wealthy condition of the family did not prevent Matilde from a strong interior life. On August 15, 1922, she married Georges Elias Salem. However, the joy of this union was soon tarnished by the impossibility of becoming a mother and the bridegroom’s fragile health. In fact, on October 26, 1944 she became a widow. She could have rebuilt a life: beauty, wealth, noble trait, chosen friendships could have won her over. Instead, it was then that she discovered her true vocation: to dedicate herself totally to her neighbor with a wider love. Her family were the poor young people of her town. In collaboration with the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, Msgr. Isidoro Fattal, she undertook to carry out the grandiose project left by her Georges by will, committing the conspicuous capital he...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Jun 8, 2020 | Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Da mihi animas cetera tolle TODAY!, Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, Salesian Cooperators, Salesian Family, Salesian Sisters, Salesians of Don Bosco, Salésiens Coopérateurs
AND A HUGE “THANKS” TO BOTH OF YOU, SR. LESLYE AND DON GIUSEPPE, AS YOU COMPLETE YOUR TERM OF SERVICE AS WORLD DELEGATES TO THE SALESIAN COOPERATORS! BE SURE OF OUR GRATEFUL PRAYER To Mr. Antonio Boccia, World Coordinator of the ASSCC and his Council To the Delegates of the ASSCC To all the Salesian Cooperators Dearest friends, I greet each of you with feelings of great gratitude for all that we have experienced during my years as a World Delegate within the Association. It is a service that has helped me grow as a Salesian and as a consecrated person: the fact of sharing the charism with you, the laity, has strengthened my vocation and broadened the horizons of our common charism, a charism that becomes even greater and more fascinating when it is shared with others, beyond one’s own condition of life, culture, and social reality. Receive my most heartfelt thanks addressed to everyone. Still, I also want to personalize it so that it reaches the hearts of the persons whom I have encountered during this period of my life and in my mission with you. Thanks to Mrs. Noemi Bertola and the World Council of...
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