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Newsletter March 2015

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Newsletter no. 62 March 2015

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Other News

Australia - Teaching the young to interact with media

 Australia - Teaching the young to interact with media

Salesian Father Ambrose Pereira has gone to Australia from the Solomon Islands to pursue social medi ...
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social communication team of the Salesian Province of Portugal

social communication team of the Salesian Province of Portugal

Mogofores, Portugal - March 2015 - On 16 March, members of the social communication team of the Sale ...
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Spain - The short film

 Spain - The short film

The short documentary sponsored by the Salesian Mission Office in Madrid, "Yo no soy bruja" (I'm not ...
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Meetings

ROME: UPS / FSC, 17 to 18 April 2015, SDB-FMA. The study of the Pope's Message for the World Day of Social Communication 2015.
ROME: Pisana-Salesianum, 23 to 26 April 2015. Meeting of the Directors of European Salesian Publishers
ITALY: Turin, 14 to 17 May 2015. Meeting of SC Delegates for the Mediterreanian Region
POLAND: Danzig (Gdansk-PLN), 25 to 28 May 2015. Meeting of SC Delegates of Europe Center North

   
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Letter from Fr Filiberto

Dear friends,

On March 19, 1885 Don Bosco wrote and signed a circular letter about spreading good books. Besides being the precious legacy of a father to his children at the end his life, and a model writing that becomes ever more relevant, if you do a re-reading of the charism and Salesian mission of this time and in the culture of communication.

Don Bosco believed, during his time, that the "spreading of good books is one of the main purposes of our congregation." The Holy priest, our founder, affirms it and wrote that phrase in the Constitutions, who himself was a writer, editor, publisher and a paper mill owner. He was among the few who understood that this was the best way to overcome barriers, to jump over the walls of our institutions, to accompany young people where the Salesian could not reach. He had found in the complex world of social communications, the best way to nurture a Christian culture in a secularized society, thus becoming a leaven that raises the dough from within.

Don Bosco had the ability to get a glimpse of the good that is present in the culture of every age and to put himself into the "game" of the playing field, using the means of his time, always for the greater glory of God and the salvation of youth. For us, based on the formation we received and presence of Social Communication, there is always a great apostolic passion that drives every Salesian to be present in the courtyards of the traditional communication and in the courtyards of the Digital Continent, because precisely the young are there. The world has changed and continues to change. It is useless to want to go back and remain behind, if God awaits us, in front, with the young!

As Don Bosco wrote in his circular, I too now write: "Please and we implore you, therefore, not to neglect this important part of our mission. Begin it not only among the same youngsters that Providence has entrusted to you, but with your message and your example, make them as many other apostles in the spreading good books."

Certainly today there are not many "traditional books" anymore, but already the "new multimedia books" for the "new digital readers" who await new Salesians who write with their lives, using new languages, the witness of the joy of the Gospel.

This 130th anniversary is a good opportunity to re-read and spread this circular letter along with a change of mentality, that draws us closer to Jesus, to Don Bosco and to the young people of today.

All the members of the SC sector greet you. I wish your communities and families, a Happy Easter!

Fr Filiberto

link: www.sdb.org/ENG/epub/DonBosco/DB_libri_en.epub

Information:
Italy - The website of the Salesian Family at EXPO2015 is online
 Italy - The website of the Salesian Family at EXPO2015 is online

The website of the Salesian Family at Expo Milano 2015 at http://www.expodonbosco2015.org/site/en is ...
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Production:
Italy - Unpublished book on Don Bosco
 Italy - Unpublished book on Don Bosco

A round table presentation of the book "A life that radiates light” was held at Auxilium, the Pont ...
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Production:
Spain -
 Spain -

The Salesian Institute of San Juan Bosco in Valencia has staged a musical about Don Bosco’s mother ...
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Production:
Ireland - New Salesian App and renewed Salesian Provincial website
 Ireland - New Salesian App and renewed Salesian Provincial website

As a part of the celebrations for the Bicentenary of Don Bosco’s birth, in order to mark it in a s ...
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Preservation:
Salesian Centre for Historical Documentation and Popular Marian Devotion
Salesian Centre for Historical Documentation and Popular Marian Devotion

Turin, Italy - March 2015 - To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco, the Salesian Centre f ...
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