SCHOOL PREPARING TO LEAVE ITS SITE....
Posted: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 16:00
After close to 100 years of education on this site, nearly 50 years of which has been Catholic education within the Archdiocese of Southwark, the Governors, staff and students of St John Bosco College, are preparing to bid farewell and embark on their next chapter at Parkham Street, Battersea,at the end of September. Our guest of honour, Bishop Hendricks, was the Principal Celebrant and is pictured... Read More »
OFFICIAL OPENING OF ST JOHN BOSCO ARTS COLLEGE
Posted: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 18:18
This North Liverpool school has officially opened its multi-million pound new home.
[ L to R - Cllr Nick Small, MP Stephen Twigg, pupil Megan, Headteacher Anne Pontifex,
Head girl Antonia, Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson, pupil Lauryn and Chair of Governors John Gibbons]
On Wednesday 3 July, St John Bosco Arts College welcomed Sr Connie Cameron FMA (Provincial), Fr Martin Coyle SDB (Provincial), Mayor... Read More »
Feast of St Joseph Cafasso
Posted: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:27
Joseph Cafasso was born at Castelnuovo d'Asti in Piedmont, Italy, of peasant parents. He studied at the seminary at Turin, and was ordained in 1833. He continued his theological studies at the seminary and university at Turin and then at the Institute of St. Franics, and despite a deformed spine, became a brilliant lecturer in moral theology there. He was a popular teacher, actively opposed Jansenism,... Read More »
BLESSED FRANCIS KESY and four companion martyrs
Posted: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 08:48
Today, 12 June, we celebrate the liturgical memorial of the martyrs, Blessed Franciszek Kesy and his four companions. These young lay men were members of the Salesian Family.
One of the main theological and pastoral ideas of Pope St. John Paul II was that the concrete example offered to the faithful by the sanctity of the lives of saints and blessed raised by him to the honours of the altar, constitutes... Read More »
BLESSED STEPHEN SANDOR
Posted: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 08:29
Stephen Sandor came to know about Don Bosco through the Salesian Bulletin, and immediately felt attracted to the Salesian charism. In 1936 he was accepted at the Clarisseum in Budapest where he did a two year aspirantate. He attended courses in printing technology at the Don Bosco Press. He began his novitiate but had to interrupt it as he was called to military service. In 1939 he was able to take... Read More »
FEAST OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Posted: Sun, 31 May 2015 08:53
Milesevac, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of our Christian religion - the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another.
Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy... Read More »
Feast of Blessed Joseph Kowalski
Posted: Thu, 28 May 2015 19:48
Blessed Joseph Kowalski,
priest and martyr
Joseph Kowalski was born on 19 March 1911 at Siedliska (Poland). From an early age he showed signs of a vocation to dedicating himself to God in a special way. In 1927, after having finished at the Salesian secondary school in Oswiecim, he was accepted in the Novitiate of the Salesian Congregation. Even as a cleric he had a spiritual desire,... Read More »
Feast of Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians
Posted: Sat, 23 May 2015 07:45
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS
Principal Patroness
of the Society of Saint Francis de Sales
of the Institute of Daughters
of Mary Help of Christians
and of the Secular Institute
of the Don Bosco Volunteers
(The feast of Mary, Help of Christians is on May 24, however we are sharing this early due to the feast of Pentecost)
On many occasions throughout the course of history, Christian... Read More »
BOVA Training Weekend
Posted: Mon, 18 May 2015 11:11
Last Saturday (8th May) Bosco Volunteer Action (BOVA) welcomed two new volunteers to training in preparation for volunteering overseas with the Salesians. The training day was held in the Parish Centre at Sacred Heart, Battersea; a slight change of scene from our usual residential weekend at Savio House, but this gave us an opportunity to have a walk around Battersea and see the construction of the... Read More »
BUILDING NEW BRIDGES IN BATTERSEA
Posted: Fri, 15 May 2015 08:53
This summer will see the completion of new Salesian buildings in Battersea. St John Bosco College is due to open in late September moving from its temporary home in Wandsworth. The Salesian community house has been re-built almost exactly on the site of its predecessor- Surrey House. Sacred Heart Parish is also enjoying a newly built parish centre alongside the church. In each of these three areas... Read More »