Vides UK: Rights Here: Right Now!
Posted: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 13:49
(Pictured: Sr Anne Frances with some of the group members)
Vides UK's Half-term Hangout for Year 4-6 children was all about rights and justice.
Held near the Vides base in Croxteth, Liverpool, "Rights Here, Right Now!" began by introducing young people to the rights they have, and how they can exercise and protect them.
From this starting point, they explored the concept of justice, to see how we can... Read More »
Brothers in formation explore Salesian spirituality
Posted: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:33
Pictured L to R: Br Joe, Fr Tom, Br Dawid, Fr Martin,
Fr Hugh, Br Ste, Br Mateusz, Br Miroslaw and Br Greg
The spirituality of St Francis de Sales was the theme for the meeting of brothers in formation, which took place at Battersea recently. This was the first of three gatherings for brothers in initial formation 2017-18.
Accompanied by Fr Martin Poulson SDB, the Province Formation Delegate, Fr Hugh... Read More »
Salesians who served in Liberia remember the 5 Martyrs of Charity
Posted: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:18
This weekend, Salesians who served in Liberia during the 1990s are commemorating their friends, the five ASC Sisters from the USA who were killed 25 years ago. St John Paul II declared them Martyrs of Charity. Fr Joe Brown SDB and Br Donald McDonald SDB talk about their memories of the Sisters.
Friendship and support naturally developed between the various Catholic missions ministering to the Liberian... Read More »
CAFOD Young Leader training for Salesian students
Posted: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:48
On Tuesday October 17th, Salesian School Chertsey, Salesian College Farnborough and other schools near and far brought about 60 students to the first of three CAFOD Youth Leadership Training Days. This programme aims to inspire, motivate and equip young people to engage with issues of social justice by nurturing their leadership skills, helping their voice to be heard.
Linked with CAFOD's latest campaign... Read More »
Party in the USA - Camp St Francis 2017
Posted: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:14
'Crazy Wednesday'
During the summer, Salesian Youth Ministry volunteers Sarah, Anya and David, along with Br Ste Lloyd, went to serve at Camp St Francis, a Salesian summer camp for children, overlooking a Californian beach. David (covered in flour in the photo above) looks back on the experience.
Why are you here? This is not a challenge to you, the reader, it is also not an invitation to give up on... Read More »
They Made Some Noise!
Posted: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 13:31
Make Some Noise, the 24-hour Salesian youth gather, continues to grow in popularity, with 300 young people from 13 schools and parishes attending this year.
On the evening of Friday 22nd September, groups of 14-16 year olds from all over the UK headed for Bolton, where Thornleigh Salesian College was again the host venue. After an opening reflection, the fun began with a ceilidh, with music from past... Read More »
New publication project with the Sisters of Nazareth
Posted: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 10:45
(Pictured: L-R: Fr Bob, Eileen, Sr Mary and Sarah)
Fr Bob Gardner SDB, our Director of Communications & Publications and Sarah Seddon, Manager of Don Bosco Publications, were delighted to meet this week with Sr Mary Anne Monaghan, Superior General of the Sisters of Nazareth, and Eileen Pickard, to discuss the publication of a new biography of the Congregation's founder, Victoire Larmenier.
The Sisters... Read More »
Beatification of Titus Zeman
Posted: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 14:45
Photo: Martin Funiak
On Saturday 30th September, Salesian priest Titus Zeman was beatified in a ceremony in Bratislava, the city where he was born in 1915. He is the first Slovakian Salesian to be beatified.
In the early 1950s, when religious orders were banned by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia, and many religious were being sent to concentration camps, Blessed Titus organised the escape... Read More »
Faith, Fun & Family in the Heart of Battersea
Posted: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:44
Br Ste Lloyd SDB describes the new summer scheme which revived a Salesian tradition in London this year.
This summer the Salesian community and Sacred Heart Parish in Battersea rekindled the long tradition of summer schemes in the London area. With the support of the Salesian Youth Ministry department, we offered 30+ young people, aged 8-16, a week of Faith, Fun and Family.
Each... Read More »
New Pocketbook tells stories of inspiring Salesians
Posted: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:24
Celebrate the feasts of Salesian Beati Alberto Marvelli and Alexandrina da Costa in October by learning more about their inspiring lives in On The Road to Sainthood, the new book from Don Bosco Publications.
The latest little volume in our Pocketbook Series presents brief biographies of 15 Salesian figures whose lives of holiness and devotion have placed them on the path to sainthood.
In addition to... Read More »