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USA West Province Newsletter • San Francisco, California April 16, 2017 HAPPY EASTER APRIL BIRTHDAYS Fr. Nick Reina.....................07 Fr. Tho Bui..........................17 Br. Mike Herbers................17 Fr. Steven Way....................17 Br. James Nguyen...............17 PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK Fr. Lucian Lomello, SDB Br. Jerry Weirich, SDB Br. Tony Matse, SDB Fr. Armand Oliveri, SDB Fr. Mario Rosso, SDB Fr. John O’Brien, SDB Fr. Avelino Lorenzo, SDB REST IN PEACE Martha Nguyen Thi Phu Aunt of Frs. Chinh/Chuyen Nguyen 10/10/1952 - 3/31/2017 Doris Roche Mother of Fr. John Roche. RIP on Jan.23rd Fr. Amable Lorenzo, SDB the brother of our Fr. Avelino RIP on Jan.18th INTOUCH • April 16, 2017 1 My thought goes to the Salesian presences around the Inevitably, my thought goes to the Salesian presences world because our dream is that they might be true dis- around the world because our dream is that they might pensers of life to so many young people, and a life in be true dispensers of life to so many young people, and abundance, an authentic, true life which gives them dig- a life in abundance, an authentic, true life which gives nity and helps them also experience the great gift that them dignity and helps them also experience the great God is in their lives. gift that God is in their lives. My thoughts fly from east to west. They start in the place in the Salesian world that Dear Salesian Family and friends and readers. is the first to see the light each day: the Samoan island of Savaii, where I got to know beautiful young people and We know very well what celebrating Easter means. In a community that accompanies them in their daily life. fact, we are so familiar with it that every year we need to Then, too, my thoughts go to the westernmost presences deepen ever more our understanding of the great wealth of the Salesian world: on the west coast of the United that this reality holds. States. Jesus, the Lord, the Risen One, returns to LIFE, with Almost as when Don Bosco dreamt of the expansion of capital letters, the Other Life. In this way, God the Fa- his Congregation, it makes me happy to know that in so ther manifests to the world that neither death nor all that many places the simple houses of our Salesian world are causes it has the final word—not violence, not egoism, houses which offer life to boys and girls. It is so in Sa- not wars—and not other deaths like the exhaustion and moa, the Solomon Islands, or Papua New Guinea, with the agony of people who suffer in their human relation- a wonderful preparation for the world of work that pre- ships because they are exploited, cast out, subjugated, or pares them for life. It is also so in Calcutta, or in Delhi, excluded. No—these do not have the final word because or Chennai—and many other places—with homes in God wants us human beings to have life and have it in which boys and girls have left behind their life on the abundance. streets and are opening up to true life for they have found a house that is a home. From the easternmost point to the farthest west, follow- ing the path the sun takes as it makes its way over the So it is in the Salesian house in Istanbul or wounded earth. Aleppo: the street kids come together and find life in hun- dreds of houses of our Salesian Family in Africa: street INTOUCH • April 16, 2017 2 children in Addis Ababa and girls rescued from sexual found faith, and may we set our sights permanently on abuse in Sierra Leone, as well as “os meninhos da rua” offering life—abundant life; life that is worthy, that is (the street kids) in Mozambique and Angola. authentically human—to those whose lives are wounded and in shambles on account of those things which are Immigrant young people welcomed into the homes of the not right in our world. I invite you, with the power of the Salesian Family in Catania, Naples, and so many other Resurrection, never to allow yourselves to get used to Salesian presences in Europe are also looking for life. seeing others who truly do not have a good life. In addition, the adolescents and young adults who have Blessed Easter! left behind guerilla warfare in Colombia and now live in Ciudad Don Bosco (Don Bosco City) in Medellin find Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB life. So do the thousands of displaced people on the US Rector Major Mexican border in Tijuana, where our brothers and sis- ters share life with them in a very simple way. The celebration of the Passover of the Lord inspires all of this, and much more, in me. There can be no celebration without God, without His Mystery, without the strength of the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus—lest it be an “empty spiritualist” celebration in which life and the suffering of the children of God seem not to matter. They matter to Jesus; day by day, He intends to accompany the life of His people, especially the poor and the most fragile. My friends, let us not be ignorant of these simple but Province veryCalendar important 2017 things lest they escape our attention. May the Easter celebrations fill us with joy, hope, and pro- Province of St. Andrew the Apostle San Francisco, California As of February 22, 2017 January, 2017 13-15 MO-WE Provincial Council Meeting, Villa Maria del Mar, Santa Cruz 1 SU Mother of God Province17 FR St. Calendar Patrick’s Day 3-5 TU-TH Provincial Council Meeting, 19 SU Salesian Family Province Day, Salesian Preparatory, Richmond Bellflower, followed by Rock Out 4 WE Provincial Council Presentation: Poverty, Bellflower Care of the Elders 26-2 SU-TH “Conjunto”, Cochabamba, Bolivia 5 TH Provincial Council: Report on Novitiate April, 2017 10-19 TU-TH Provincila Visitation, Salesian Community, Bellflower 5 WE Directors-Pastors Meeting, 16 MO Martin Luther King, Quarterly Day 10:00 AM to Dinner, 17 TU Province Financial Advisory Mtg. Corpus Christi, San Francisco 18 WE Board Members @ 1:30 PM 6-7 TH-FR Provincial Council Meeting, SJB Bellflower Provincial Residence, San Francisco 24 TU St. Francis de Sales, Patron 11-17 TU-MO Provincial Visitation, 31 TU St. John Bosco, Founder San Luis Rey, Laredo 16 SU Easter Sunday February, 2017 24-26 MO-WE North American Salesian Conference New Hampshire 1 WE Mass for Deceased Confrere 28 FR Board Meeting, Bosco Tech, 1 WE Members Board w/Dinner Rosemead @ 10:00 AM @ 4:00PM St. Francis High School 28-3 FR-WE Provincial Visitation, Provincial 2 TH Members Board @ 12:00 PM Residence, San Francisco Salesian, Richmond 2-6 TH-MO Provincial Visitation, SS P&P, May, 2017 San Francisco 2 TU Province Finance Advisory INTOUCH • April 16, 2017 3 7 TU Pius IX Committee, San Francisco @ 5:20 7-10 TU-FR Visit, Curatorium, Orange, NJ 4 TH Members Board w/ Dinner 9 TH Bl. Eusebia Palomino Yenes, vir. @ 4:00 PM Salesian, Richmond 12-14 SU-TU Provincial Council Meeting, 5-6 FR-SA Provincial Council Meeting, Don Bosco Tech, Rosemead Provincial Residence 13 MO Provincial Council Presentation: 6 SA St. Dominic Savio Sharing the Mission with the Laity 9-12 TU-FR ESA, Medellin, Columbia 16 TH Trusts Meetings 12-14 FR-SU Provincial Visit, St. Bridget Parish, 17 FR Board Meeting, Bosco Tech, Los Angeles Rosemead @ 10:00 AM 13 SA St. Mary Domenica Mazzarello 17-20 FR-MO Provincial Visit, St. Mary’s Parish, 16 TU St. Louis Orione Los Angeles 17 WE Members Board @ 10:00 AM 20 MO President’s Day St. Francis High School 23-26 TH-SU Religious Ed Congress 18 TH Board Members W/ Dinner 25 SA SS. Louis Versiglia & Callistus @ 1:30 PM, SJB Bellflower Caravario, Salesian Protomartyrs 19-22 FR-MO Provincial Visitation, Corpus Christi, San Francisco March, 2017 24 WE Mary Help of Christians 29 MO Memorial Day 1 WE Ash Wednesday 31 WE Trusts Meetings @ 9:30 AM 3-6 FR-MO Provincial Visit, St. Dominic Savio Parish, Bellflower 8 WE Board Members @ 1:30 PM SJB Bellflower 10-17 FR-FR Provincial Visitation, Don Bosco Hall, St. Ambrose, Berkeley 13 MO Provincial Council Presentation: On-Going Formation BOSCO TECH BLACK & GOLD GALA IS APRIL 30 ROSEMEAD, CA—April 5, 2017—Don Bosco Techni- “Bosco Tech and its students have benefitted beyond cal Institute (Bosco Tech) will host its annual Black and mesure by the dedication and generosity of each of our Gold Gala at the Millennium Biltmore Los Angeles on honorees,” said Xavier Jimenez, Bosco Tech President. Sunday, April 30, starting at 5 p.m. Gala guests will dine, “We are honored and blessed to have the opportunity to dance, and bid on auction items with all proceeds benefit- recognize each one, while celebrating what the Tech has ing Bosco Tech’s tuition assistance program. meant to the lives of so many young people.” The event will honor Bosco Tech past president Father Gala tickets are $100 per person and can be purchased Nicolas Reina, SDB; long-time faculty member Jim Cu- through https://boscotechgala2017.auction-bid.org/mi- riel; the John Devaney family (sons Cedric, Roger and crosite/. An assortment of auction items will be available Trevor are graduates of Bosco Tech) and their company, for online bidding on the website beginning on April 17. Hi-Rel Laboratories.