Category: Calendar & Events
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Two Salesian Brothers Make their Perpetual Vows on MHC Solemnity
Canlubang, Calamba City, the Philippines – 24 May – Brs. James Gomez and John Dominic Coral made their perpetual profession of vows as Salesians of Don Bosco at a celebration of the Eucharist at the Diocesan of Mary Help of Christians. Fr. Alfred Maravilla who is doing his extraordinary canonical visitation in the FIN Province…
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Ten Imperfect Men Called to Do the Perfect Work of God
By Cl. Saverinus Mite Medho, SDB April 30, 2022, National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians, Parañaque City, the Philippines–Ten young Salesians from the East Asia Oceania (EAP) Region profess the Perpetual Vows to live forever in Obedience, Poverty, and Chastity. They are the following: Cl. Jese Alves Soares, SDB (Vice-Province of East Timor) Cl.…
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Province Day 2021: Moved and spurred on by HOPE
By Br. Roj Mallari, SDB 30 November 2021, via Zoom — The Salesians of Don Bosco-Philippine North Province (FIN) held its annual Province Day with the theme “Moved by Hope,” taken from the Rector Major’s Strenna 2021. The Province Day was marked as a day of celebration “as a sign of its fraternal communion and…
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Deceased Salesians Commemorated
By Asp. Eugene Caranguian Photo by Fr. Rene Molina, SDB Calamba City, the Philippines, 6 November 2021 — FIN Provincial Superior Fr. Gerry Martin, SDB presided the Funeral Mass of Fr. Michael La Guardia, SDB, and Fr. Vicente Cervania, SDB. Both of them passed on last August, but due to the strict protocol imposed by the…
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FIN Province Holds Visual Storytelling Workshop Online
By Mr. Mark Anthony Ramos FIN Province, 16 August 2021–The Commission on Social Communications – FIN organized an Online Visual Story-Telling Workshop participated in by twenty-five participants coming from different Salesian settings, as well as several Bosconian alumni.Mr. Khalil Joseph Bañares, an alumnus of DBTI Makati, a Film professor, and a judge at the annual…
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6 SDB Deacons on the Feast of the Sacred Heart
By Cl. Nathan Petate, SDB Parañaque City, the Philippines, 11 June 2021 — Held at the National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians, Bishop Broderick Pabillo, DD, the Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Manila as the prelate ordained six Salesians of Don Bosco to the Diaconate Order. The ordination coincided as well with the Church’s…
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FIN Province Holds the 7th Don Bosco Film Festival Awarding Ceremony
By Allen Keddrick Edrada (Grade 12 high school correspondent from the Braga Gazette of Don Bosco Technical Institute–Makati) Makati City, the Philippines, 16 May 2021–In celebration of the 55th World Communications Day (WCD), the FIN Province recognized the winners of the 7th Don Bosco Film Festival (DBFF) Awarding Ceremony. It was held last May 15,…
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FOREVER YES
SDB Perpetual Profession Held in FIN By Cl. Jogar Villanueva, SDB Photos: JJ – Cl. John Joseph Aguila, SDB, Cl. Anthony Valence, SDB, Franco – Cl. Franko Nuwa, SDB, Tonton – C. Antonio Velarde, SDB Parañaque City, the Philippines, 1 May 2021–Despite the uncertainties that exist at the present, especially the worsening pandemic we experience…
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FIN Province Holds a Youth Lenten Retreat on Commitment
By Angerica Fesariton Have you ever wondered how many “yeses” do we give in our entire life? Do people really value this word? In Kinaya, Kinakaya, Kakayanin (KKK) (roughly translated as We endure, We are enduring, We will endure) Lenten retreat it has been highlighted that saying ”yes” goes beyond words for it entails being committed. When someone commits,…
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FIN Province Celebrates SDB Missions Month
FIN Province, 14 November 2020 – MISS-Talk (MISSionary-Talk) is the Zoom Assembly of Salesian Missionaries together with the Salesian Lay Volunteers (FIN), members of the Salesian Family (FMA, Salesian Cooperators, Lay Mission Partners), Bosconians and oratorians, and our very own Salesians and our Novices. The event became an opportunity to see, listen, and interact with…