Category: Special Events
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FOUR NEW DEACONS
By Cl. Nathan Petate, SDB Photos by Mr. John Villafania Pampanga, the Philippines, June 3, 2023 – The Salesian Society of St John Bosco joyfully received four young ordinands into the Diaconate. Reverend Daniel Gonzales, SDB, Reverend Paul Aldrin Dungca, SDB, Reverend Genson Banguis, SDB, and Reverend Adnan Alfred, SDB, hailing from the Philippine North…
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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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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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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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Six New Salesian Deacons
By Jarmy Reignier Atienza Roxas, SDB October 24, 2020, Paranaque City, the Philippines–In the midst of the pandemic, the Salesians of Don Bosco from the community of the Seminaryo ng Don Bosco Paranaque were blessed with the ordination of six new deacons. The newly ordained deacons are: Rev. Cyril Vincent Noel, SDB – FIN, Rev.…
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SYM “Huddle” for the “New Normal”
By Mr. Stephen Borja Makati City, the Philippines, 2 August 2020 — Some 74 Salesians, lay animators, and youth leaders participated in the “SYM Huddle,” an online forum on youth group animation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Are youth groups possible in this time of distance learning and physical distancing? What can be done to accompany those…
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Rector of the EAO Sandor Brothers’ Formation House Installed
By Sandor House News Service Photos by Br. Marcel Ximenes, SDB Paranaque, the Philippines, 24 July 2020 – FIN Provincial Superior Fr. Gerardo Martin, SDB, installed today Fr. Roneldo Vilbar, SDB as the new rector of the Bl. Istvan Sandor Salesian Brothers’ Formation House. Before his appointment to the East Asia and Oceania Regional…
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Playing musical instruments is like loving my formation process
A Birthday reflection By Salesian prenovice Benjo Ian Mangila Canlubang, the Philippines, 9 July 2020 — We can’t imagine the Salesian Oratory without music. One of the Filipino candidates to Salesian life shared on his birthday about learning musical instruments as paradigm of life-long formation: GUITAR When I entered the Salesian formation house, the…
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First Religious Profession Held in Canlubang
Written by Cl. Paul Miguel Calderon, SDB Photos by Cl. Jonas Paulo Lacson, SDB Canlubang, Laguna, the Philippines, 5 July 2020 –The Philippine North Province rejoices at the first religious profession of its newest member in the person of Cl Antonio Josef Rodriguez, SDB. Cl. “Anthony,” as he is fondly called, made his First Profession…