North American Provinces Begin New Formation School

(New Rochelle, NY – October 29) – The Salesian Communicators’ School of Formation for North America met for the first time on Wednesday, October 27 at 1:00 pm ET via Zoom. The meeting was led by Julia St. Clair, communications coordinator for the SUE Province, and presented by Fr. Gildásio Mendes dos Santos, SDB, general councilor for social communication.

Fr. Gildásio showed the class how stories in the Bible and our faith engage us via immersion through the five senses combined with feelings, dialogue, and mystery. He illustrated this by having the class participate in two exercises where immersion and feelings were identified in the Parable of the Prodigal Son, and then immersion the faithful experience during Mass. He also detailed how Jesus Christ is the perfect communicator, which is proven directly by His encounters in the New Testament.

The School was happy to have eight live attendees (excluding Fr. Gildásio and Miss. St. Clair) and six participants who could not be there in live time but watched the recording of the course after. The next class will take place on Tuesday, November 16 at 1:00 pm ET and will be presented by Fr. John Serio, SDB on the Salesian Charism and Social Communication.