Eighteen candidates were commissioned as Salesian Lay Missioners, and four more as Salesian Domestic Volunteers (or as “Home Missioners,” some would prefer to say), in a rite at Don Bosco Retreat Center in Haverstraw, N.Y., on August 17. Bishop Luc Van Looy, SDB, of Ghent, Belgium, presided over the commissioning rite, assisted by Adam Rudin, […]
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by Mary Pat Collins, Salesian Lay Missioner This past year at Don Bosco Deodurga I have fallen deeply in love with the people; I have seen the face of Christ in the children and members of the community; I have been embraced by God and infused with the Holy Spirit. I was invited into the
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Salesian Lay Missioner Stephen Lilly will be finishing two years serving as a teacher in Soddo, Ethiopia. *************One last letter from Ethiopia: Often on a quiet morning the sound of a horn will drone out into the distance. Moments later the shouts of a man can be heard. The sounds approach and then recede as
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By Melia West Don Bosco taught his Salesian Family to seek holiness in a life of prayer and by accompanying young people on a shared journey toward Jesus. A Salesian Lay Missioner serving at Hogar Sagrado Corazón in Montero, Bolivia, reflects on how she has been accompanying the young since September 2010. It hit me
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