On a typical weekend, 200 to 300 young people gather at the San Jose Oratory where Miriam Hernandez, a Salesian Lay Missioner originally from St Dominic Savio in Bellflower, CA, starts her daily ministry. In August 2009, Miriam began a one-year mission assignment working in the oratory. Miriam’s daily schedule is pretty intense. She starts …
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New Rochelle, N.Y. — After four weeks of orientation at three sites, 23 young women and men (18 women, 5 men) were commissioned as Salesian Lay Missionaries (SLMs) on Saturday, August 8. Fr. Thomas Dunne, superior of the New Rochelle Province (SUE), presided over an early morning Mass at the Don Bosco Retreat Center in …
March 8, 2009 – Seven men and women recently came to Don Bosco Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berekely, to discern the call to become Salesian Lay Missioners. The candidates arrived on Friday, March 13th, and departed on Sunday. Topics covered during the weekend included: “Who Are the Salesians?”, “Who Are …
Faith moves mountains. After sixty days, the survivors of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar are on a journey of resilience. The wounds inflicted by natural disasters take years to heal elsewhere. But the resilience of our people brings hope. The memory of that fateful day is mercifully turning into efforts at resilience. And that is encouraging …
