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Inasmuch as social media has become part of our daily lives, re-launching our new FIN website on this Jubilee Year of Mercy is the most opportune time. It is our hope that our new website will be an effective medium to express God’s compassion, tenderness and forgiveness. As we innovate our way of communicating, we…
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Manila, the Philippines, 7 August 2016—At exactly 4:45 pm, Fr. Gaudecio ‘GC’ Carandang, SDB, Rector and Alumni In-Charge of the Don Bosco TVET Center-Tondo, led the blessing, ribbon cutting and opening of Juan Café: Tambayan ng Alumni. The Don Bosco TVET Tondo Alumni coordinators under the lead Fr. GC thought of a venue for the alumni to keep…
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Dear Confreres, Below is the Statement of our FIN Province regarding the extra-judicial killings of hundreds of suspected drug pushers and other people allegedly connected to illegal drug trafficking. This Statement was discussed during the Rectors’ Meeting last August 2, 2016. Please share our Statement to the members of our Salesian Family, our students, alumni,…
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Salesians of Don Bosco • Philippine Northern Province PASTORAL STATEMENT ON THE EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS In his visit to the Philippines in 2015, Pope Francis challenged Filipino families to be “sanctuaries of respect for life.” In the past weeks, even up to the time of writing, the call to respect life has apparently been left unheeded in…
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God’s Name is “Mercy” We are Salesian Family, bearers of a charism which is firmly rooted in the certainty that our God shows a special tenderness towards his children, for the youth of the world, and, in particular, for those who, up until today, have had fewer opportunities Pope Francis gave an Extraordinary Jubilee of…
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Calauan, Laguna, the Philippines, 16 July 2016 — Her Excellency Maria Leonor ‘Leni’ Robredo, Vice President of the Philippines and Chair of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, visited Southville 7, Site 2 more popularly known as Don Bosco Calauan, a resettlement area of the National Housing Authority in Laguna, a province south of…
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Makati City, the Philippines, 14 July 2016 – Fifteen Salesian Houses of the FIN Province sent their representatives to the meeting of local news and information correspondents and/or members of their local social communications teams. Organized by the Commission on Social Communications, the main objectives of this meeting were the following: to review the Guidelines…
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CONSECRATED MEN: MERCIFUL AS THE FATHER We, the members of the ASSOCIATION OF MAJOR RELIGIOUS SUPERIORS (MEN) IN THE PHILIPPINES, though diverse in charisms and from different communities, contexts, and ministries, are nevertheless sharing the common elements of apostolic consecration, profession of the evangelical counsels, and life in our respective religious communities. We have been…
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I Give My Life for My Sheep 24 June 2016, Parañaque City, the Philippines—On the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Most Reverend Broderick Pabillo, DD, Auxiliary Bishop of Manila, ordained to the diaconate fourteen Salesians and two Franciscans of Our Lady of the Poor in the National Shrine of Mary Help…