Council Resources

Newsletter April 2015

You are receiving this newsletter because you are a Delegate or point of reference for Social Communications.
Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser.

SSCS

Newsletter no. 63 April 2015

At a glance
Other News

Italy -

Italy -

More than 150 Salesians and FMA sisters in initial formation took part, together with their formatio ...
(read more)

Papua New Guinea - Effective communication brings change

 Papua New Guinea - Effective communication brings change

Vatican Radio’s English language Program Director Sean-Patrick Lovett and Signis Services Director ...
(read more)

Forward to a friend

Know someone who might be interested in this email? Why not forward it to them

Meetings

ITALY: Turin, 14 to 17 May 2015 Meeting of Delegates CS Mediterranean Region
POLAND: Danzig (Gdansk-PLN), 25 to 28 May 2015 Meeting of Delegates CS Europe Center North
PERU: Peru 12-15 Sept 2015 Meeting of SC Delegates of the Interamerican Region
BRAZIL: Brazilia 18-20 Sept 2015, SC Delegates Meeting of the Southern Cone of America
INDIA: 5 to 8 November 2015. Meeting of SC Delegates of South Asia
JAPAN: 9 to 11 November 2015. Meeting of Salesian Publishers of Asia
JAPAN: 12 to 15 November 2015. Meeting of SC Delegates of East Asia & Oceania

   
Animation
Letter from Fr Filiberto

Dear friends,

On the 17th and 18th of April, we celebrated the Salesian Social Communication Day at the Faculty of SC - UPS. We were together with Formandi and Formators, SDB and FMA, both sectors of Formation and SC, taking always as a stimulus for reflection, the theme of the World Day of Social Communications. With this experience we open up in a concrete way to the dimensions of the Church, of the Salesian Family and interdisciplinary nature of FMA and SDB Sectors. This year Pope Francis has proposed "Communicating Family: A privileged environment of meeting in the gratuity of love."

Proposing this theme, Pope Francis deepens what he offered to us last year: "Communication at the service of an authentic culture of encounter", and urges us to penetrate the deeper reality of communication, to overcome the idea that quickly focuses the theme of communication in media, in the information technology, in communication, in its use in the networks and in the digital world, easily forgetting the person and the people, who are inspiration and source of all communication, and without which these media has no sense.

From this significant meeting of the SDB and FMA, emerged the awareness that an important point which must be be addressed is the formation to communication of the new generations of young consecrated persons, and the ongoing formation for the formators. Consecrated persons are formed to be communicators and witnesses of God, the Gospel, and therefore the quality of relationships and their communication skills in bearing witness to the Gospel, their life in the community and the development of the mission among the young, are no longer an option, but an important criterion of the Salesian vocation.

I invite you to promote in your Provinces these types of meetings which do a lot of good to the members of the Salesian Family and to the young people, for whom we work. The synergy and collaboration among the Provincial sectors and commissions is always a fundamental criterion for carrying out the Salesian mission in any situation and in any Province.

The members of the Department for SC greet you all and wish you a nice start of the month of May, dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

Cordially in Don Bosco,
Fr. Filiberto

email: dicasterocs@gmail.com

Information:
RMG - Salesian Bishops to visit the places of Don Bosco
 RMG - Salesian Bishops to visit the places of Don Bosco

The visit of Salesian Bishops to the places of Don Bosco (Turin, 21-25 May) is one of the major inte ...
(read more)

Production:
India - 66 short films from 20 countries screened at ISFFI 2015
India - 66 short films from 20 countries screened at ISFFI 2015

The 9th International Short Film Festival of India (ISFFI), hit the screens of selected city theatre ...
(read more)

Production:
RMG - The Spread of Good Books in the Bicentenary Year
RMG - The Spread of Good Books in the Bicentenary Year

Faithful to the exhortation of Don Bosco 130 years ago when he recommended to the Salesians " the sp ...
(read more)

Production:
RMG - Don Bosco today: A book interview with the Rector Major
RMG - Don Bosco today: A book interview with the Rector Major

“Romana Editorial” and “Libreria Editrice Vaticana” present the book Don Bosco hoy (Don Bos ...
(read more)

Preservation:
RMG - An Essay on the Salesian house of Essen-Borbeck
 RMG - An Essay on the Salesian house of Essen-Borbeck

A booklet in German by Johannes Wielgoss, SDB, entitled "Das Haus der Salesianer Don Boscos in Essen ...
(read more)