Pakistan - Some 100 families a day are arriving

(ANS - Quetta) - “Our contribution to the disastrous emergency created by the floods is to note where they are and give them what they need for survival.” According to Fr. Peter Zago, this in simple terms is what he and some volunteers in Quetta do for families displaced by the natural disaster.
Jugend Eine Welt, the Vienna-based Salesian NGO, contacted Fr. Zago on August 17, giving him an initial contribution of 5,000 euros for “flood victims.” He let them know that...Full Text

The Salesian website in Quetta - offers photos and video of what they are doing.


Brother Juan Pablo Rubio, S.D.B., Makes First Religious Profession
By Father Michael Mendl, S.D.B.
Brother Juan Pablo Rubio, S.D.B., pronounced his first religious vows of obedience, poverty, and chastity as a Salesian of Don Bosco on Monday evening, August 16.
Father Thomas Dunne, S.D.B., superior of the Salesians' Eastern U.S. Province, based in New Rochelle, N.Y., received Brother Juan Pablo's profession within a Mass celebrated at the ...Full Text

U.S. SDBs Welcome 5 New Novices
By Fr. Michael Mendl, SDB
New Rochelle, N.Y. - Fr. Thomas Dunne, provincial of the New Rochelle Province, received five young men into St. Joseph's Novitiate in Port Chester, N.Y., on August 15. The brief rite of reception took place within a morning parish Mass at Holy Rosary Church, to which....Full Text
SDB Novices: front row-Andrew Smolin, Adam Dupré, Eduardo Chincha; back row-Fr. Tom Dunne, Jared Anderson, Marc Stockhausen, Fr. Bill Keane FMA & SDB Novices: Sr. JooYun Park, Sr. Sara Ball, Sr. Brigette Hanley, Sr. Merissa Loucks, Sr. Keri Cole; Andrew Smolin, Jared Anderson, Adam Dupré, Marc Stockhausen, Eduardo Chincha

New York, USA - 7 August 2010 - At the Don Bosco Retreat House in Haverstraw-Stony Point, New York, a group of young lay volunteers have been sent off to mission lands as lay missionaries (SLMs) and Salesian Domestic Volunteers (SDVs) by Fr. Thomas Dunne, provincial of United State East (SUE). The group of SLMs were guided through four intense weeks of formation by the director of the program, Adam Rudin, along with some other collaborators; members of the team, coming from various parts of the USA, will go as missionary volunteers to Bolivia, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Rwanda and one other country still to be identified. The SDVs is a program created in the province of SUE, directed by Megan Fraino from the Office of Youth ministry. The SDVs will foster their services to the pastoral work of the Salesian presences in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, and Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Guatemala - Don Bosco on the road ...Full Story

Strenna 2010 by Pascual Chavez SDB
The Gospel to the Young:
Signs of the Kingdom: Miracles
It's certainly not easy these days to talk about miracles. Confronted by this problem, one Catholic writer of the 1960s, Louis Evely, wrote in a provocative and highly debatable fashion, “Our ancestors believed in God because of miracles; we, nowadays, despite miracles.”

On the other hand, miracle is often used to describe phenomena out of the ordinary, as when one speaks of “miracles of technology,” or worse yet, as when one's mixed up with ... English | Spanish

Gospel Roads Tampa
by Fr. Steve Ryan, SDB

It's hard to imagine a better facility to run Gospel Roads for a large group of teenagers than Mary Help of Christians Center in Tampa; 60 participants, 8 young team members, 3 co-directors and 4 adult chaperones experienced an amazing week. The community, led by Fr. Denis Donovan and Fr. Paul Chuong were most hospitable to the 75 of us who took part in the program from June 27-July 3. The Salesian Cooperators of Tampa joined us for a final Mass and treated us to a barbecue at the end of the program. .. Full Text

Around the Province....Salesian Life Camp Tampa / Gospel Road Haiti - photos

New "class" of Salesian Lay Missioners
New Rochelle, N.Y. -- July 8, 2010 -On July 6, a new "class" of Salesian Lay Missioners (SLM) arrived at Maryknoll, N.Y., to begin four weeks of discernment and orientation.  The first three days are dedicated to forming group and Salesian identity.  About 10 days follow of various forms of cultural orientation, under the direction of the Maryknoll Missioners, together with smaller volunteer groups from other sponsors.  The third week is spent in the Salesian day camps at Corpus Christi and Holy Rosary parishes in Port Chester, N.Y., learning some of the practical aspects of Salesian youth work, and reflecting upon the experience. In the fourth week (Aug. 1-6) the SLMs will be on a quasi-retreat, getting further Salesian orientation and finishing up necessary paperwork; this week coincides with one of the Salesian summer retreats, enabling the young volunteers to get to know Salesians and vice versa.  At the retreat's closing Mass, they will be commissioned by the provincial, Fr. Thomas Dunne, in the presence of and with the support of all the Salesian retreatants.  This year's SLMs are destined for Bolivia, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Rwanda, and other countries.
Pictured just after daily Mass are most of the new SLMs and, at the back left, Adam Rudin, director of the program, which is based at Salesian Missions in New Rochelle.

Don Bosco: History and Spirit Volume 7 - Now Available
Fr. Michael Mendl, SDB

Volume 7 of Fr. Arthur Lenti's magnum opus, Don Bosco: History and Spirit, is titled Don Bosco's Golden Years. In the words of the back-cover blurb, it “surveys Don Bosco's life and activity in the late seventies and eighties, roughly his last dozen years. These are his mature, reflective years; they are also the years of his quasi-retirement, gradually giving way to his sunset years.” ...Full Text

Salesian GHQ
Fr. Chavez writes a letter to the Salesians about youth ministry
(ANS - Rome) - A youth ministry which shows that Deus Caritas est is the message and the exhortation which Fr. Pascual Chavez addresses to the Salesians in a letter dated the Fourth Sunday of Easter, dedicated to the Good Shepherd.
At the end of the 26th General Chapter, Don Bosco's Congregation launched a review of its pastoral activity which shows the essential link between evangelization and education.
The letter, published in ...FULL TEXT

LATEST WORLD NEWS
Brazil - The Rector Major meets up with Salesians, young people, and the Salesian Family

Mexico - “His heart remains here”

Brazil - The Rector Major celebrates Brasilia's 50th Anniversary

Democratic Republic of the Congo - Second World Day of Humanitarian Assistance at the Don Bosco Center

Pakistan - Emergency grows, Salesian solidarity becomes more active

Austria - Salesians in the Village of Religions among the Scouts

Brazil - Indigenous Salesian ordained to the priesthood

United Nations - Young people from all over the world present a Magna Carta of Values to the UN

Great Britain - Instalment of New Provincial

Kenya - The opening of the new Salesian school of theology

Switzerland - World economic crisis has spurred a record increase in youth unemployment, says ILO

United States - Summer for the kids, and a growth opportunity

Italy - 110 Young people from the Salesian Youth Movement, Santiago de Compostela

Salesian GHQ - Asia is also preparing to welcome Don Bosco

Brazil - Publication of Manuals on Communication

United Nations - International Year of Youth 2010-2011

Haiti - A visit of encouragement and planning

Paraguay - A Salesian Family Experience

India - Don Bosco Media runs communications course for theology students

Mexico - Don Bosco has arrived

India - To know Fr. Rua is to know Don Bosco

Italy - Don Bosco's Preventive System at Rimini Festival

Salesian GHQ - Conclusion of the general council meeting

Salesian GHQ - Salesian Missions Day: A way to work together

Dominican Republic - Congress of Past Pupils of Don Bosco

Mongolia - Darkhan's Summer Camps

Belgium - Address of Bishop van Luyn at the European Commission

Honduras - Don Bosco always present

Brazil - Fr. Carlos Garulo given honorary doctorate

Salesian GHQ - Haiti: from weeping to hope

USA - Camp Savio in Bellflower

Kenya - Techno-Expo 2010

Colombia - Support for the people of Chocó

Costa Rica - Don Bosco, an unforgettable presence

Spain - Volunteers from the Valencia Province in Mexico and Peru

Dominican Republic - Don Bosco's casket on its way to Haiti

Italy - The traditional meeting of the two general councils of SDB and FMA

Salesian GHQ - Choosing the logo for the Project Europe

Italy - First General Assembly of the Community of the Mission of Don Bosco

Italy - Cardinal Bertone has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination

Haiti - Life begins again

Austria - The Don Bosco Refugee Center receives a civil award

Salesian GHQ - The feast of the Rector Major 2010

Brazil - A project against bullying in schools, organized by a Salesian school

Vatican - A letter of thanks from the Pope

Salesian GHQ - African Children's Day

Solomon Islands - Ultra-light evangelization--or the flying bishop!

Italy - To you our thanks, a letter from Mother Reungoat to Salesian priests

Link - Seventh and final Lenti volume released

Venezuela -Don Bosco's casket - memory never to be forgotten

Salesian GHQ - Three departments, one single mission: the process continues

Spain - The Salesian Youth Movement prepares for WYD

Albania - Don Bosco welcomes his boys

Thailand - Papal “Cross” for missionary

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