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Salesian Youth and Animators’ Gathering (SYnAG) 2017 Makati City, the Philippines, 22 July 2017—More than 300 youth leaders and animators gathered at the Joy Center of Don Bosco Technical Institute, Makati for the first formation program organized by the Salesian Youth Movement for 2017. The first Salesian Youth and Animators’ Gathering (SYnAG) became a venue…
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Makati City, the Philippines, 22 July 2017—Early morning on the Feast of Mary Magdalene, I found myself in front of a casket. Before me was the mortal remains of a man, strong in appearance, wearing his characteristic smile. Tucked in his folded arms were a knotted rosary and the Salesian Constitutions. He is Bro. Elmer…
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Makati City, the Philippines, 1 July 2017–On June 29, 2017, Fr. Salvador “Boy” Pablo, SDB, celebrated the Holy Eucharist to commemorate not just the Passion, Death and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus, but also to thank God for the 50 fruitful years He gifted him with as a Salesian of Don Bosco. One of his…
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Makati City, the Philippines, 29 June 2017 – Fr. Anthony Paul Bicomong, SDB, the FIN Provincial Superior, met this morning all the Heads of the different Commissions of the Province to discuss their respective plans and to hear their respective reports on their Salesian Educative Pastoral Plans (SEPP), their items for the FIN Integrated Province Plan…
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Parañaque City, the Philippines, 24 June 2017 — The morning of the Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist saw the the ordination of 14 men to the sacred order of deacons through the laying on of hands of Bishop Teodoro Bacani, DD in the National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians Parish. “You…
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Mandaluyong City, the Philippines, 17 June 2017—At ten o’clock in the morning, the Eucharistic Celebration began inside the parish church of Saint Dominic Savio in Mandaluyong City for the installation of Fr. Ferdinand Camilo, SDB, as its sixth parish priest. His Eminence Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, DD, of the Archdiocese of Manila, solemnly installed Fr.…
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Parañaque City, the Philippines, 8 June 2017—With pomposity, ceremony and solemnity, the Salesians at the center of studies in Parañaque celebrated the blessed martyr and Salesian Brother Stephen Sandor. The Sandor Community, which comprises of Salesian Brothers in their specific formation, animated the feast day. The campus was suffused with a buoyant spirit as the…
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For three full days, Bosconian leaders from various settings of the FIN Province converged for a leadership training seminar-workshop. Two non-Salesian parishes, Sto Nino Parish in Tondo and Santa Maria Magdalena Parish Church in Calamba also sent youth contingents. Dubbed as Champoree, a portmanteau of the words Champion and jamboree, the participants were given various…
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“It is no longer I who live, it is Christ who lives in me.” –Galatians 2:20 Cebu, the Philippines, 6 May 2017—The feast of Saint Dominic Savio saw the solemn profession and investiture rites of eleven new Salesians in the Chapel of Don Bosco Formation Center, Lawaan, Cebu. There are nine clerics and two brothers.…
