Bishop Costelloe's Homily-St John Bosco's Relic-Australia-Sunday 13th March 2011 BrBarrySDB Mar 25, 2011 Bishop Tim Costelloe sdb, Homily given at Monash university during the Mass for the visitation …More
Bishop Costelloe's Homily-St John Bosco's Relic-Australia-Sunday 13th March 2011
BrBarrySDB Mar 25, 2011 Bishop Tim Costelloe sdb, Homily given at Monash university during the Mass for the visitation of the Relic of St John Bosco Sunday 13th March 2011
BrBarrySDB Mar 25, 2011 Bishop Tim Costelloe sdb, Homily given at Monash university during the Mass for the visitation of the Relic of St John Bosco Sunday 13th March 2011
Australia: Saint John Bosco's relic venerated!
April, 2011
MORE than 1000 people from all over Sydney venerated a relic of St John Bosco during a brief visit to the Salesian parish of St Marys last week. The relic, a bone from the arm of the 19th century Italian priest, was contained in a statue of the saint placed in the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary church in the far western Sydney …More
April, 2011
MORE than 1000 people from all over Sydney venerated a relic of St John Bosco during a brief visit to the Salesian parish of St Marys last week. The relic, a bone from the arm of the 19th century Italian priest, was contained in a statue of the saint placed in the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary church in the far western Sydney suburb.
The parish is under the care of the Salesians, the order founded by St John Bosco.
At St Marys the relic was the focus of two days of prayer and celebration on Tuesday and Wednesday March 22-23. The relic previously visited East Timor before arriving in Melbourne on March 8. Its next destination is China.
The liturgies included the Mass of St John Bosco, celebrated by the Bishop of Parramatta, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP, on the Wednesday.
Don Bosco dedicated himself to the welfare and betterment of poor, abandoned and disadvantaged youth of Turin. Pope John Paul II was to describe him as “the apostle of the young”.
He devised a “preventive system” of “reason, religion and loving-kindness” rather than punishment to provide for the welfare and education of his charges, eventually acquiring a permanent place for their care. He named it the Oratory of St Francis de Sales.
The first Salesians arrived in Australia in 1922.
The worldwide tour began in 2009, in preparation for the bicentenary of the birth of John Bosco in Becchi, near Turin, in 2015.
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