Tags: Rector Major
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The Mission in 5 WORDS – By the Rector Major of the Salesians
Posted: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:40
A new format which aims to streamline the Rector Major's video messages "In 5 words" is launched. It will enable a quicker communication, which is more social and closer to young people, without distorting the content of the message but at the same time will make them more pleasant and comforting for the wider audiences.
Each topic will be expressed in the style of a challenge: that of being able to... Read More »