Salesian Family
Don Bosco inspired the start of a vast movement of persons who work in different ways for the benefit of the young. He founded the Society of St. Francis de Sales (Salesians of Don Bosco), the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (Salesian Sisters), and the Association of Salesian Cooperators. Other Groups of the Salesian Family followed and today number 28 Groups.
Don Bosco Study Guide
The Guide is published monthly as a resource for the preparation of the Centenary celebration of the birth of Don Bosco in August of 2015. Click on this link Study Guide for the latest issue prepared by the scholars of Don Bosco Hall and the Institute of Salesian Studies.
Card. Oscar Rodriguez, SDB to Speak at LA Religious Ed Congress
This is important!
Cardinal Oscar Rodrigues Maradiaga, SDB
is to speak at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress March 23-25.
This is a must attend event.
BUT YOU HAVE TO REGISTER FOR THE CONGRESS
GO TO: http://www.recongress.org/register2012.htm
These Lived the Salesian Vocation
By: Fr. Pascual Chavez, SDB, Rector Major
For the next 10 weeks we will feature an article developed by our Rector Major, Fr. Pascual Chaves, SDB. Each article presents a Salesian who lived the Salesian vocation. These people offer us practical examples of lives lived in the love of God. We begin with…
Venerable Mamma Margaret (1788-1856)
An educational and priestly Motherhood
The vocation of a widowed mother
Don Bosco's 200 Birthday Celebration
The Rector Major Announces Bicentennial
Our Rector Major, Fr. Pascual Chaves Villanueva, is calling us to prepare for a huge celebration of the centenary of the birth of Don Bosco, August 16, 1815. Do you remember the bicentenary of the United States in 1976? Well that was a national celebration. The Bicentenary of the Birth of Don Bosco will be a worldwide celebration.
Fr. Chaves has developed a three-year preparation for this celebration. The First Year began this August 16th and asks the Salesian Family to enrich ourselves by inhancing our knowledge of Don Bosco.
Strenna 2012
STRENNA 2012
Let us make the young our life’s mission
by coming to know and imitate Don Bosco
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“To be faithful to Don Bosco means knowing his history and the history of his times, making his inspiration our own... is to cultivate in ourselves a strong and abiding love for young people, especially the poorest.” |
Volunteer Program Gospel Roads III Tijuana
December 26th 2010 - January 5th 2011
Welcome to Tijuana! Are you ready for the challenge?
During the 2010-11 Christmas vacation thirteen missionaries traveled to Tijuana, Mexico to help, learn, and grow in their closeness with God. Here are some of their stories.
Don Bosco Relics in California 2010
Download Southern California Relics Schedule HERE.
PHOTOS OF RELICS PILGRIMAGE ARE COMING IN THROUGH DIFFERENT CHANNELS. Please share your photos, send us links to DB Relics Photo albums. Please send the links to levanduoc@gmail.com. Thanks!
