Purpose of the Course: The enthusiasm and faith of the missionary who goes to the missions are not enough, even if they remain fundamental criteria. It is essential that the missionary, even if he goes only for a few years, makes a careful examination of the reasons for his going to the missions. On the other hand, it is important that the departing missionary is provided the necessary tools to encounter a new people and take on the personal attitude of openness, which is respectful and trusting towards the ‘other’ in order to foster a pleasant, efficient, humble and discreet presence. Certainly the missionary is a gift and a blessing, he brings new strength and vitality to the Province and the local Church; the richness of his faith and culture and his own personal gifts enrich the Province and the local Church, but without adequate preparation the newcomer could actually become a disturbance or un uncomfortable presence because he is incapable of fostering mutual dialogue with the new reality.

The Orientation Course for New Missionaries is envisioned as an immediate preparation of the departing missionaries. It is through prayer, witness of life, sharing of experiences, personal reflections and through a joyful life with other course participants that the new missionary is helped in verifying, deepening and sometimes even discovering the fundamental reasons for his going to the missions.

The orientation course for new missionaries is intended primarily to be formation (foster values and attitudes necessary for a missionary) not information (acquisition of new knowledge or ideas)! Presuppositions: The preparation for missionary life begins years before in the home Province of the missionary, where the candidate is accompanied in discerning his suitability and the necessary qualities leading to the option for missionary life.

The home Province of the missionary has the commitment to provide the departing missionary an opportunity to take part in meetings or courses for departing missionaries, if they are organised in the country of origin.

The Missions Department has published the Criteria for the Discernment of Missionary Vocations as essential guidelines on the path leading to the choice of candidate for the missions. A confrere who has difficulty in integrating in the ordinary life of the community in his home Province is not meant to be a missionary for the culture shock and the new and more challenging environment in the missions will not only not help solve these problems, they might even aggravate it.

The Province which receives the new missionary has also the commitment to guide and foster the integration of the new missionary in his new cultural social and ecclesial context. This requires an assiduous initial accompaniment. This means, above all, ensure that he has a spiritual guide and, during the early years, a missionary who could accompany him on his first steps in missions. It is also essential that within a year in the missions the new missionary is given the opportunity to participate in courses organised by local church or conference of religious to better understand the local culture and promote a proper inculturation.

Prerequisites: To benefit from the course, each participant needs to make the necessary preparation before coming to the orientation course, and in particular to prepare the following written work: 1) A brief presentation of the essential elements and characteristics of one’s own culture, including those which need to be healed, ennobled and perfected; 2) A brief presentation of the country where he will work as a missionary (geography, culture, social and political situation); 3) A brief presentation of the Salesian Province and of the local Church of his new mission.

The easy access to the internet makes these preliminary work indispensable prerequisites in order to participate in this course to ensure that it becomes a truly educative experience.

Methodology: The course will use the modular approach1and the workshop method2. Each module will have four components: a) the personal experience b) listening and evaluating through the input, c) personal reflection and sharing d) the re-formulation of one’s own personal understanding on the topic. As components of the methodology great importance is also given to the sharing the Word and the preparation of their daily journal that which helps each participant to reread his personal experiences in the light of the topic(s) of the day. Several other activities will be organised (e.g. sports, visits, programmes, meetings with other Salesians in initial formation, etc..) to foster interaction and inter-cultural exchange among participants.

Recipients: The participants are the new missionaries, the majority of whom are young postnovices who have little or no theological training and pastoral experience.

A few will have a previous missionary experience. The vast majority has no command of Italian thus translations will have to be made.

Human Resources: Fr. Václav Klement (Councillor for the missions), Fr. Alfred Maravilla (course coordinator), Fr. Stanisław Rafałko (missions department), Fr.

1 A module is a self-contained unit of learning whose expected result is set out as a number of learning outcomes which are described in terms of a series of measurable achievements in the form of personal reflections, practical reports, illustrations, and so on.

2 The «workshop method» is an active teaching method where the primary role of educator is to motivate students to learn on their own methods and techniques for finding, discovering and mastering pre-determined knowledge that is deemed important. It focuses on participatory, hands-on learning; small-group activity; pair and smallgroup discussions. It does not focus on the Lecturer telling students information but in essentially creating learning experiences that guide, direct, and facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge by the learner.

Jose Anikuzhikattil (missions department) Fr. Donato Lacedonio (social communications department), Fr. Giuseppe Nicolussi (Casa Generalizia), Fr. Luigi Cei (Archivio Centrale Salesiano), Fr. Elio Torrigiani (catacombs); Fr. Valerio Baresi (Sacro Cuore); Sr. Concetta Strada (Mornese), Fr. Gianni Ghiglione & Egidio Deiana (Colle Don Bosco), Fr. Elio Capriglio (Ivrea) Dc. Gali Naresh Babu, Dc.

Joseph Phong and Br. Bosco Tran Dinh Hoc Hai (cultural mediators).

The Councillor for the Missions: Fr. Václav Klement will have a personal talk with every member of the 143nd missionary expeditions and will be available for other personal talks during the entire course. During the pilgrimage to the Salesian Holy Places Fr. Václav will have a second round of personal talk with every missionary.

Duration: twenty-five days 5 – 30 September 2012.

Arrival before 5.00 pm on 5 September. Departure is after 3.00 pm on September 30 if you are departing from Turin or Oct 1 if you are departing from Rome.

Venue: Rome (Generalate / Salesianum) and Piedmont (Salesian places) General Objectives: The orientation course for new missionaries is envisioned as an aid to the immediate preparation of new missionaries before their departure for the missions in order to provide them with the necessary tools as they encounter a new culture by having the correct personal attitude which fosters a pleasant, efficient, humble and discreet presence through the four nuclei: introductory, anthropo-cultural, missiological and Salesian.

At the end of the course each participant
Deepens his own missionary motivations and the purpose of his going to the missions;
Is prepared to respond to a new situation and a new culture at the start of his missionary life;
Acquires a style of relating with the other which is respectful of the other’s culture and values in order to foster a relationship which is mutually enriching;
Visits important Christian shrines in Rome in order to foster a profound sense of Church;
Visits the places of Don Bosco to foster a deepening of one’s own charismatic identity as a Salesian missionary;
Evaluate one’s own experiences in order to make a Christian and Salesian rereading of one’s own life.

General Schedule
6.45 Sharing of the Word / Lauds (animation by language groups)
7.30 breakfast
8.15 workshop method (introduction)
8.30 session
10.00 break
10.30 session
12.00 personal reflection and / or personal work
13.00 lunch
15.00 session
16.30 workshop method (conclusion)
17.00 snacks / recreation / community games on Tuesdays and Saturdays
18.30 Eucharist with Vespers (animation by language groups)
19.30 Journaling
19.45 dinner
rosary / good night / presentation (video or power point) of one’s own country
or culture or occasionally a short film about the missions (optional)
05 September (Wednesday) - Arrival - Day 1
19.00 Prayer Service
 Welcome by Councillor for the Missions
 introduction
 presentation of the animating team
 preliminary orientation (schedule / Generalate house plan)
20.00 dinner

06 September (Thursday) – Day 2
· Introduction: ORIENTATION / INTRODUCTION (Fr. Alfred)
 10.30 preparation for the Pauline Pilgrimage
 12.00 lunch
PILGRIMAGE TO PLACES OF ST PAUL IN ROME
Objective: The pilgrimage aims at giving each participant the possibility of
visiting and praying at the tomb of St Paul and at places in Rome connected with
St. Paul.
 13.15 departure for a guided pilgrimage to the places of St. Paul in Rome:
 14.00 mamertine prison (rosary in the bus)
 14.45 departure
 15.15 tre fontane
 16.00 departure
 16.30 Eucharist: Basilica of St. Paul outside the walls (Presider: Fr. Václav)
 17.45 Santa Maria in via Lata (second residence of St. Paul in Rome), San
Paolo in Regola (first residence of St. Paul in Rome).
 19.30 dinner / good night
07 September (Friday) Day 3
· Module 1: MISSIONARY MOTIVATIONS (Fr. Václav)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to enumerate
the indicators of correct motivations in going to the missions.
· Module 2: JOURNALING (Fr. Alfred)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to explain
the role of journaling in rereading one’s own experience and is able to show the
capacity to write a daily spiritual journal.
· 13.00 lunch
Introductory Nucleus
Specific Objective: The introductory nucleus aims at providing departing missionaries with basic and necessary skills for the positive outcome of the course.
· 15.00 - 16.00 session
08 September (Saturday) Day 4
· 6.45 - Eucharist
· Module 3: THE PROJECT OF MISSIONARY LIFE (Fr. Václav)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to discuss in a group the necessity of the project of life especially in Salesian missionary life and draw up a Project of Life which will be periodically revised during the course in view of drawing up its final version at the conclusion of the course in Turin.
 10.30 writing of the first draft of the Project of Missionary Life
 16.00 community evaluation of the introductory nucleus
 17.00 snacks / community games
 18.45 eucharistic adoration with vespers
 19.30 Journaling
 19.45 dinner / rosary / good night / serata
09 September (Sunday) Day 5
PILGRIMAGE TO THE CATACOMBS & THE PAPAL BASILICAS OF ROME (Fr. Alfred)
Objective: The pilgrimage aims at giving every participant the possibility to visit
and pray in important shrines in Rome.
 6.40 Lauds
 7.00 breakfast
 8.00 departure
 9.00 Eucharist and visit to the Catacombs of St. Callixtus
 10.30 guided pilgrimage to the Papal Basilicas (St. John Lateran, St. Mary
Majors)
 packed lunch / afternoon free for tourism
 19.30 dinner
 rosary / good night

10 September (Monday) - Day 6
· Module 1: WHAT IS CULTURE? (Fr. Alfred)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to provide a definition of culture which rejects either cultural superiority, cultural inferiority or cultural relativism.
11 September (Tuesday) - Day 7
· Module 2: ELEMENTS OF CULTURE (Fr. Alfred)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to draw an illustration to show the elements of his own culture and explain how they interact.
12 September (Wednesday) - Day 8
· Module 3: CULTURE SHOCK (Fr. Alfred)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to narrate his own experience of cultural shock and explain what he has learnt today that could help him cope up with it in a similar situation in the future.
13 settembre (Thursday) - Day 9
· Module 4: INCULTURATION (Fr. Alfred)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to explain what is inculturation and illustrate what is a real inculturation and how to foster it among missionaries.
14 September (Friday) - Day 10
· Module 5: COUNTER-CULTURALISM & LANGUAGE LEARNING (Fr. Alfred)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to explain the importance of a healthy counter-culturalism and language learning as
necessary dimension in the process of inculturation in the missions.
VISIT TO THE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES OF THE PROPAGANDA FIDE
Objective: Each participant is able to visit the historical achieves of the Propaganda Fide which coordinates the mission of the universal Church.
 9.50 departure
 visit to the Historical Archives (Pontifical Urbanian University)
Antropo-Cultural Nucleus
Specific Objective:
The anthropo-cultural nucleus aims at providing the departing missionaries with instruments that would help them better understand the dynamics of culture and
foster their inculturation.
ORIENTATION COURSE FOR NEW MISSIONARIES - 2012
8
 10.30 - 11.15 first batch
 11.15 - 12.00 second batch
 12.00 departure for Pisana
 13.00 lunch
15 September (Saturday) - Day 11
· 7.00 Eucharist / Lauds with the Generalate community
· 7.40 breakfast
· 8.30 workshop method
· 8.45 session
· Module 6 - Part I: A GLANCE AT THE WESTERN CULTURE (Fr. Stanisław)
Modules’ Objective: At the end of the module each participant, particularly those destined for Europe, is able to draw out the important elements of the western culture and the challenges and opportunities these offer.
· Module 6 - Part II: AMISSIONARY IN EUROPE: SHARING OF EXPERIENCE
(Fr. Abraham Kavalakatt)
 15.00 community evaluation of anthropo-cultural nucleus
 16.00 personal review of the draft of the Project of Missionary Life
 16.30 snacks / preparation for cultural evening
 18.00 eucharistic adoration with vespers
 18.45 Journaling
 19.00 dinner / rosary
 20.00 cultural evening / good night
16 September (Sunday) - Day 12
PILGRIMAGE TO THE TOMB OF ST. PETER IN THE VATICAN (Fr. Alfred)
Objective: The pilgrimage aims at giving each participant the possibility to visit and pray at the tomb of the Apostle Peter and of the Popes.
· 6.30 breakfast
· 7.15 departure for the Vatican (Lauds in bus)
 8.00 Eucharist in the Vatican grottoes (St. Peter’s Basilica)
 Free day for tourism
 19.30 dinner
 rosary / good night

17 September (Monday) Day 13
· Meeting with the 9th Successor of Don Bosco (depending on his availability)
· Module 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE THEOLOGY OF MISSION AND
EVANGELISATION (Fr. Jose)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to make a short and simple explanation of the theological foundations of mission, the
missionary dimension of the Salesian vocation, what is evangelisation and its different dimensions.
18 September (Tuesday) - Day 14
· Module 2: INITIAL PROCLAMATION (Fr. Václav)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to explain the importance and urgency of initial proclamation in the mission of the Church.
· Module 3: EDUCATION AND EVANGELISATION (Fr. Jose)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to list down practical initiatives to ensure that, faithful to the intentions of Don Bosco, we
evangelise by educating and educate by evangelising.
 15.30 visit to the Salesian Central Archives (Fr. Cei)
Objective of the Visit: Have the possibility to see the original copy of Don Bosco’s Memoirs and Souvenir to the first missionaries and the more important
letters of Sts. Luigi Versiglia and Callixtus Caravario.
19 September (Wednesday) - Day 15
MEET THE SUCCESSOR OF PETER (Fr. Alfred)
Objective: At the end of the morning each participant will have the possibility to meet the successor of Peter in order to be strengthened in his own sense of
Church.
 6.30 departure
 papal audience in the Vatican
 12.00: packed lunch
Missiological Nucleus
Specific Objective:
The missiological nucleus aims at helping the departing missionaries to better understand fundamental missiological concepts.

 13.00 departure for Novitiate at Genzano (where St. Luigi Versiglia was
Novice Master)
 encounter with the Novices
 18.00 Eucharist / / vespers
 19.00 dinner
 19.45 departure for Pisana / rosary in the bus
20 September (Thursday) - Day 16
· Module 4: SALESIAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE (Fr. Stanisław)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to explain the relevance and role of volunteers in evangelisation.
· Module 5: EVANGELISATION AND HUMAN PROMOTION (Fr. Stanisław)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to make a short and simple explanations of the connection of evangelisation with human promotion.
21 September (Friday) - Day 17
 8.30 - 12.00
· Module 6: EVANGELISATION AND COMMUNICATION (Fr. Donato)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to explain the use of new technologies in evangelisation and in the diffusion of missionary news in the Congregation (ANS, sdb.org, regional and provincial network) and show his capacity to use it.
 15.00 – 15.30 visit to ANS
 15.30 community evaluation of anthropo-cultural nucleus
 16.30 personal review of the draft of the Project of Missionary Life
 17.00 snacks / community games
 18.45 eucharistic adoration
 19.30 Journaling
 19.45 dinner / rosary / good night

22 September (Saturday) - Day 18
 6.45 Sharing of the Word / Lauds
7.30 breakfast
· Module 1: HISTORICAL OUTLINE OF THE SALESIAN MISSIONS (Fr. Jose)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to narrate important events in the history of the mission of the Church and specially the important developments of the Salesian mission.
· Module 2: SALESIAN MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY (Fr. Václav)
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to make a brief and simple explanation about the fundamental elements of Salesian missionary spirituality.
PILGRIMAGE TO SOME PLACES OF DON BOSCO IN ROME (Fr. Alfred)
Objective: The pilgrimage aims at giving every participant the possibility of visiting and praying in important places in Rome connected with Don Bosco.
 14.00: departure for a visit to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart
 15.00 Eucharist at the altar of Mary Help of Christians
 Visit Museum & room of Don Bosco
 17.30 departure
 18.00 visit to the Basilica Don Bosco at Cinecittà
A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY WITH DON BOSCO
THROUGH HIS LIFE AND TIMES
(23-30 SEPTEMBER)
23 September (Sunday) - Day 19
· Module 4: MOTHER MAZZARELLO: THE FEMININE DIMENSION OF THE
SALESIAN CHARISM
Salesian Nucleus
Specific Objective:
The Salesian nucleus aims at giving the departing missionaries the possibility to follow the footsteps of the Founder as the source of identity of their Salesian vocation through a personal contact with places connected with the origins of the Salesian charism and evaluate their own personal experience in the light of Don Bosco’s charismatic experience in order to continue his mission in their new field of work.

Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to make a short and brief explanation how St. Mary Domenica Mazzarello lived and transmitted the Salesian charism.
6:30 departure for Mornese / packed lunch
14:00 MORNESE – arrival, guided visit to the places of Mother Mazzarello:
Mazzarelli – MUSEUM – Collegio – Valponasca - Pozzo
18:15 Eucharist & Vespers in the Chapel of the Collegio
19.00 dinner
19.40 rosary
20.00 community evaluation
20.15 Journaling / good night
24 September (Monday) - Day 20
6.00 breakfast
6.30 departure for Nizza Monferrato
Lauds / introduction about the day’s activities (in the bus)
8.00 visit to FMA Museum
9.00 departure for Colle Don Bosco
11.00 arrival / settle down
11.30 visit to the Ethnological Museum
13.00 lunch
· Module 5: COLLE DON BOSCO: CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE OF
JOHNNY BOSCO
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to make a brief and simple narration about the childhood and adolescence of Don Bosco and reread the events in one’s life which have helped him in his human and spiritual maturity.
13.00 lunch
14.00 introduction about the afternoon’s activity
14.20 departure for Capriglio
moment for reflection and personal prayer
15.30 departure for Becchi
15.45 visit to Becchi (casetta, field of dreams, house of Joseph Bosco)
moment for reflection and personal prayer
18.45 Eucharist with vespers - Basilica
19.30 dinner
20.10 rosary
20.30 community evaluation
20.45 Journaling / good night

25 September (Tuesday) - Day 20
· Module 6: CASTELNUOVO D’ASTI AND CHIERI: THE YOUNG BOSCO AND
HIS FORMATION
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to make a short and simple narration of Don Bosco’s human and spiritual formation and see the personal gifts he has received from God and how these can help him in his radical gift of self to God.
6.45 Lauds / personal meditation
7.30 breakfast
8.15 introduction about the day’s activities
8.45 departure for Chieri
9.15 visit to the Jewish Ghetto, Convent of Peace, old seminary
visit to the Church of St. Philip Neri
moment for reflection and personal prayer
visit to the Cathedral of Chieri
moment for reflection and personal prayer
11.45 departure for Colle Don Bosco
13.00 lunch
14.00 departure for Castelnuovo Don Bosco
14.30 visit to St. Andrew’s Parish Church
15.30 Eucharist
16.15 departure for Moncucco
16.45 visit to the Moglia farm
moment for reflection and personal prayer
17.30 Vespers
18.30 departure for Colle
19.30 dinner
20.10 rosary
20.30 community evaluation
20.45 Journaling / good night

26 September (Wednesday) - Day 21
· Module 7: CITY OF TURIN: THE PRIEST DON BOSCO AND THE BEGINNINGS
OF HIS WORK
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to make a brief and simple explanation of the expressions of the oratorian heart of Don Bosco and evaluate how one has lived Don Bosco’s Da Mihi Animas.
6.45 Sharing of the Word / Lauds
7.30 breakfast
8.15 introduction about the day’s activity
8.45 departure for Turin
9.50 walk from Porta Palazzo to the Cathedral (Chapel of the Shroud)
walk to the Vincentian Church of the Visitation
11.40 visit to the Church of St. Francis de Sales (Valdocco)
moment for reflection and personal prayer
12.15 Eucharist
13.00 lunch (Valdocco self-service)
14.00 video & visit to the rooms of Don Bosco
15.00 departure for the Church of St. Francis Assisi
brief visit to the Shrine of the Consolata
15.30 visit to the Church of St. Francis of Assisi
moment for reflection and personal prayer
16.15 walk back to Valdocco
16.40 departure for Valsalice tombs of Don Bosco, Don Beltrami and Don
Albera and Chapel of the Sacred Heart
moment for reflection and personal prayer
18.00 departure for Colle / (vespers & rosary in the bus)
19.30 dinner
20.15 community evaluation
20.45 Journaling / good night
27 September (Thursday) - Day 22
· Module 8: MISSIONARY ANIMATION
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to have a practical experience of missionary animation among the students of Ivrea (former missionary aspirantate).
6.45 Lauds / personal meditation
7.30 breakfast
8.15 introduction about the day’s activities
8.45 departure for Ivrea (former Missionary Aspirantate)
10.00 arrival / encounter with the students (by class)
12.00 lunch
14.00 departure for Courgnè (birth place of St. Callistus Caravario)
14.30 arrival / visit
15.30 Eucharist
16.30 Departure (vespers & rosary in the bus)
19.30 dinner
20.15 community evaluation
20.30 Journaling / good night
28 September (Friday) - Day 23
· Module 8: VALDOCCO: CHARACTERISTICS OF DON BOSCO’S SPIRITUALITY
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to make a brief and simple explanation of the characteristics of the spirituality of Don Bosco and evaluate how he has lived it in his own life.
6.45 Lauds / personal meditation
7.30 breakfast
8.15 introduction about the day’s activities
8.45 departure for Valdocco
10.00 arrival / visit to the Pinardi Chapel & Basilica, Chapel of relics
moment for reflection and personal prayer
12.00 Eucharist in MHC Basilica
13.00 lunch
· Module 9: THE PLACES OF DOMINIC SAVIO: THE EDUCATIVE PROPOSAL
OF HOLINESS
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to make a brief and simple explanation of Don Bosco’s concept of holiness as shown by Domenic Savio’s spiritual experience and in this light evaluate how he has lived Salesian holiness.
14.30 departure for Mondonio
15.30 visit to Dominic Savio’s house and school brief stop at Mondonio’s cemetery chapel
16.30 departure for Murialdo
17.00 visit to the Church and house of Dominic Savio moment for reflection and personal prayer / vespers
18.00 vespers
18.30 rosary while walking towards Colle Don Bosco
19.30 dinner – THANK YOU to the community
20.20 community evaluation – COURSE 2012
20. 45 Journaling / good night

29 September (Saturday) - Day 24
· Module 10: TOWARDS A PROJECT OF MISSIONARY LIFE
Module Objective: At the end of the module each participant is able to reread his journal and draw out from it important elements for his spiritual life in order to draw up the final version of his Project of Salesian Missionary Life.
6.45 personal meditation
7.00 Lauds / Hill of the missionary dream reading of Don Bosco’s 5th Missionary Dream / group sharing
7.30 breakfast
8.15 introduction about the day’s activities
8.45 points for reflection
- moment for reflection and personal prayer
- possibility for personal Eucharistic adoration in the Tempietto
- final version of the personal Project of Missionary Life
11.00 Penitential celebration: possibility for confession
12.00 Eucharist Don Bosco Basilica
13.00 lunch
14.00 meeting of new missionaries SDB & FMA
16.00 HARAMBÉE
Around 300 young people from Italian Provinces, VIS + Missionaries
(testimonies - sharing)
20:00 dinner, Basilica – serata, torchlight procession – rosary, good night:
30 September (Sunday) - Day 25
7.00 breakfast
7.30 departure for Turin-Valdocco (Lauds in the bus)
9.00 Valdocco: DB Theatre – meeting with young people of VIS-Italia and
Rector Major - presentation of departing missionaries and volunteers
cf. complete list of missionaries – SDB, FMA, CMB, Volunteers – Poland,
Spain, Slovakia, Italy, etc.
12:00 Basilica of Mary Help of Christians – Eucharist presided by the
Rector Major and giving of the missionary cross to missionaries of
143rd Salesian missionary expedition
15:00 departure for Rome and other destinations, estimated time of arrival in
Rome 24:00

Liturgical Animation & Celebrations
Date Liturgical memorial Venue Eucharist Presider Animator
linguistic group
(Liturgy, rosary, prayers)
6 Sept St. Paul’s Basilica Fr. Václav Multicultural
7 Sept Fr. Raj Casimir Maria Vietnamese group
8 Sept Nativity of Mary
+ eucharistic adoration
Fr. Peter Pagáč East European group
9 Sept 23rd Sunday Catacombs Fr. Jose Multicultural
10 Sept Fr. Roberto Cappelletti Italian group
11 Sept Fr. Gerald Maria David Indian group
12 Sept Fr. Laércio José de Lima Spanish / Port. group
13 Sept Fr. Angel Sanchez English group
14 Sept Exaltation of the Cross Fr. Francis Xavier Vietnamese group
15 Sept Our Lady of Sorrows
+ eucharistic adoration
Generalate Chapel. Fr. Václav Multicultural
16 Sept 24th Sunday Grotto St. Peter’s Bas Fr. Stanislaw Multicultural
17 Sept Fr. Alfred French group
18 Sept Fr. Lukasz Nawrat East European group
19 Sept Fr. Clemente L. Enri Spanish / Port. group
20 Sept Andrew Kim & Co. Fr. Steven Yu Italian group
21 Sept St. Matthew Fr. Solomon K. Vietnamese group
22 Sept Spanish Martyrs Sacred Heart Basilica Fr. Augustine Kharmuti Indian group
23 Sept 25th Sunday Mornese Fr. Marián Ondriaš East European group
24 Sept Colle Bas. Don Bosco Fr. Alfred Maravilla French group
25 Sept Castelnuovo Fr. Aurelio Di Quattro Italian group
26 Sept St. F. de Sales - Vald Fr. Peter Ryan English group
27 Sept St. Matthew Courgnè Fr. Sony Pottenplackal Indian group
28 Sept S. Wenceslao /
Lorenzo Ruiz & Co.
Basilica MHC Fr. Václav Spanish / Port. group
29 Sept Archangels Colle Bas. Don Bosco Fr. David Tulimelli Vietnamese group
30 Sept 26th Sunday Basilica MHC Rector Major