Salesian students share food and faith at synagogue
Posted: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:08
Rahim was part of a group of Year 10 RE students from St John Bosco College, Battersea, who visited a synagogue recently, and saw preparations for Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Shelters, including the building of a sukkah, representing the huts farmers stayed in as they worked on the harvest.
Our trip to the synagogue in Wimbledon, last month, was very interesting. We started the session... Read More »
Salesian past pupils advise UN in Libya
Posted: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:04
For the past year, Colonel Raymond Hughes, past pupil of Salesian College, Bootle, near Liverpool (now Savio Salesian College), has been deployed to Libya to serve with the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), along with another Salesian past pupil, Captain Albert Angel, US Navy, a graduate of Don Bosco Technical Institute, Rosemead, California.
Ray and Albert are the Senior British and... Read More »
Feast of Blessed Madeleine Morano FMA
Posted: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:09
On 15 November, we celebrate the feast of Blessed Madeleine Morano, Salesian Sister, educator and catechist, who was born on this day in 1847. Madeleine overcame poverty and hardship to answer the call she felt from God to be a religious sister and a teacher.
Although she knew from an early age that she was called to both religious life and teaching, when her father died, 8-year-old Madeleine had to... Read More »
Celebrating Bl Artimide Zatti
Posted: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:45
On 13th November, we celebrate the memorial of Blessed Artimide Zatti, a Salesian Brother who dedicated his life to caring for the sick poor in Argentina.
A child of poor Italian immigrants, Artimide had only been able to attend elementary school, so when he was called to become a Salesian priest, he was greatly challenged by his studies. Another difficulty came when, as a novice, he contracted TB from... Read More »
Feast of Blessed Michael Rua
Posted: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:44
On 29th October, the anniversary of his beatification in 1972, we celebrate Blessed Michael Rua, the first successor to Don Bosco. This seems to have been a role the saint had in mind for him from the early days of their long association, when he puzzled the young Michael by telling him 'we two will go halves in everything'.
Blessed Michael first met Don Bosco when he was a pupil at the de la Salle... Read More »
New Children's Book Series
Posted: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:03
Don Bosco Publications are now stocking a new four-book series called Bible Detective. The books introduce the Bible to children by finding people in major biblical settings in a Where's Wally style.
The series includes: Looking for the First Christians, Looking for the Promised Land, Looking for Jesus and Looking for God's People.
The books are available on our website for £1.95 each plus p&p,... Read More »
Celebrating St Louis Guanella
Posted: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:41
On 24th October, we celebrate St Louis Guanella, born in Italy in 1842, who was a Salesian for several years, and who dedicated his life to serving the poor.
As a young parish priest in the 1860s, he was especially drawn to improving the lives of the young, and his encounters with Don Bosco led him to become a Salesian in 1875. He ran the St Aloysius Oratory in Turin and took charge of adult vocations... Read More »
Newman Canonisation: new Pocketbook & prayer card
Posted: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 23:00
On Sunday 13 October in Rome, Blessed John Henry Newman will become the first English saint to be canonised since 1970, and the first person who lived after the 17th Century to be made a saint. To celebrate this historic event, Don Bosco Publications has produced a new Pocketbook (out now!) and a prayer card.
The commemorative prayer card is available for the price of postage (UK 60p). The Pocketbook... Read More »
A pilgrimage to the Isle of Wight
Posted: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:45
Fr Andrew Ebrahim SDB writes about the recent pilgrimage from St John Bosco College Battersea to the Isle of Wight
Our first Year 11 trip to the Benedictine monastery of Our Lady of Quarr took place in the middle of September, just before the weather turned. It was an ideal place for students to consolidate what they had learnt in RE last year and it was a subtle way of helping them to revisit topics... Read More »
"A new year; a new term; a new day"
Posted: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:19
Hazel from the Chaplaincy Team at Savio Salesian College Bootle describes the start of 2019-20.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
No. I am not being previous or run mad. I truly mean for all you teachers and Year Sevens, Happy New Year!
Our new year began on September 3rd: a new year; a new term; a new day, and a new intake into a new school.
Many eleven year olds had had that date at the forefront of their minds for six... Read More »