LVIV, Ukraine – 04/07/2010. New ministers of the Gospel and of the Eucharist according to the heart of Don Bosco There were great celebrations last weekend for the Salesian Family in Lviv in the Ukraine with the ordinations of a new priest and of two deacons and the conferral on two young Salesians of the subdiaconate. >>
ROME, Italy – 25/06/2010. The Feast of the Rector Major 2010
Yesterday 24 June, the solemnity of the birth of Saint John the Baptist, the community of the Generalate celebrated the Feast of the Rector Major, Fr. Pascual Chávez, as an occasion on which to pay homage to the successor of Don Bosco. >>
VATICAN – 24/06/2010. A letter of thanks from the Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his pleasure at the “warm sentiments of filial devotion and spiritual closeness” sent to him by the Rector Major, Fr Pascual Chávez, and the Salesian bishops in their letter at the end of May. >>
LVIV, Ukraine – 31/03/2010. A University Hostel entrusted to the Salesians Today, 31 March, at Lviv in the Ukraine a State University Hostel was opened which is to be run by the Salesians. This decision by the local authorities reflects the quality... >>
LVIV, Ukraine – 11/03/2010. Fr Mykhailo Pryszlak has died The Salesian Delegation of Ukraine announce the sad news of the death of Fr Mykhailo Pryszlak. Our brother who had been suffering from a illness for some time, died on Thursday 11 March in Lviv at 88 years of age. On Saterday 13/03 at 11 am in the Salesian parish of Saint Mary of Patrocinio, the Archbishop of Lviv His Grace Igor Vosniak will preside at the funeral of Fr Mykhailo.
LVIV, Ukraine – 14/02/2010.New iconostasis in the Pokrova parish
On 14 February, Archbishop Igor Vosniak of Lviv blessed a new iconostasis in the Salesian Greek-Catholic parish of Pokrova. The ceremony was accompanied by a great celebration... >>
LVIV, Ukraine – 01/02/2010. Don Bosco celebrated in Lviv
It is surprising how year after year Don Bosco is catching on with the young and the people. On Friday 29 January at the Salesian secondary school named after Blessed Klymentiy Shepticky there was a big celebration in the presence of... >>
LVIV, Ukraine – 18/12/2009. His Beatitude Lubomyr greeted Ukrainian Salesians on their jubilee
His Beatitude Lubomyr, the head of the UGCC, visited the Main House of the Salesian Delegation in Ukraine, who greeted the Ukrainian sons of Father Bosco with the jubilee of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Salesian Congregation. >>(GER)
LVIV, Ukraine – 28/10/2009.Visit of the Economer General
Between 16 and 19 October the Economer General of the Salesian Congregation, Brother Claudio Marangio paid a visit to the Byzantine-Ukraine Rite Provincial Delegation of the East Europe Circumscription. >>
TURIN, Italy – 27/9/2009. The 140th Salesian missionary expedition
In the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin, from where Don Bosco on 11 November 1875 sent the first group of missionaries to Patagonia, the Rector Major Fr Pascual Chávez Villanueva gave the missionary mandate to the 140th Salesian missionary expedition. >>