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News - Tags: Rector Major

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Rector Major's Message - May 2024 - Mary Help of Christians From here to the World

Rector Major's Message - May 2024 - Mary Help of Christians From here to the World

Posted: Wed, 1 May 2024 10:29

My affectionate and cordial greetings during this Easter season.

In a world in turmoil, agitated by armed conflicts and no small amount of violence, we continue to declare, announce, and proclaim that Jesus is Lord, raised by the Father, and that he LIVES. We strongly need His Presence in hearts willing to welcome Him.

I must confess to you that when I'm inside the magnificent Basilica of Mary Help of... Read More »

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Two New Salesian Shepherds for the Church – Card. Ángel Fernández Artime and Archbishop Giordano Piccinotti

Two New Salesian Shepherds for the Church – Card. Ángel Fernández Artime and Archbishop Giordano Piccinotti

Posted: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:47

(ANS - Rome) – The episcopal ordination of two eminent sons of Don Bosco, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesian Congregation and Titular Archbishop-elect of Ursona, and Monsignor Giordano Piccinotti, Titular Archbishop-elect of Gradisca and President of the Administration of the Heritage of the Apostolic See (APSA).

His Eminence, Cardinal Emil Paul Tscherrig,... Read More »

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Cardinal Ángel to stay on as Rector Major until August 16

Cardinal Ángel to stay on as Rector Major until August 16

Posted: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:45

(ANS - Rome) - On the day of the Episcopal Ordination of Card. Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco, Archbishop Titular elect of Ursona, and of Archbishop Giordano Piccinotti, Archbishop Titular elect of Gradisca, President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), ANS is pleased to announce the decree of "deroga" that the Holy Father... Read More »

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Rector Major's Message - April 2024 - I am a Salesian and I am a Bororo

Rector Major's Message - April 2024 - I am a Salesian and I am a Bororo

Posted: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 15:39

Dear friends of the Salesian Bulletin, I am writing to you from Meruri, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. I write this greeting almost as if it were a journalistic chronicle, because 24 hours have passed since I arrived in the middle of this city.
But my Salesian confreres arrived 122 years ago and since then we have always been in this mission in the middle of the forests and fields, accompanying... Read More »

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Assignment of the Titular See and Episcopal Ordination of Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major

Assignment of the Titular See and Episcopal Ordination of Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major

Posted: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 09:17

On Tuesday, 5 March 2024, the Holy See Press Office announced that the Holy Father Pope Francis has assigned to Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB, the Rector Major of the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco, the titular See of Ursona, with archiepiscopal dignity, in view of his episcopal ordination scheduled for coming 20 April.

Ángel Fernández Artime, Don Bosco's Tenth... Read More »

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The Rector Major's Message - A reflection on Don Bosco's Dream at Nine

The Rector Major's Message - A reflection on Don Bosco's Dream at Nine

Posted: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 09:36

Two hundred years ago, a little nine-year-old boy, poor and with no future but to be a farmer, had a dream. He recounted it to his mother, grandmother, and brothers in the morning, who found it funny. Grandma concluded, "Pay no attention to dreams." Many years later, that boy, John Bosco, wrote: "I agreed with my grandmother. However, I was unable to cast that dream out of my mind."

Because it wasn't... Read More »

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