Dear Salesian Family & Salesian Young People:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A blessed Easter to all of you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is with joy that we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and it is with sadness that we mourn the loss of our Holiness Pope Francis.\u00a0 May he rest in eternal peace, and may he continue to pray and intercede for our Salesian Family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As many of you know, I and 230+ delegates just came back from the 29th General Chapter, which took place in Turin, Italy, from February 16 to April 9.\u00a0 I was looking forward to the scheduled Salesian audience with Pope Francis on April 11, when the new Rector Major, Fr. Fabio Attard, and his Council were going to be introduced to the Pope.\u00a0 But we knew weeks before that, because of his ill health, of the probability that it would be cancelled.\u00a0 That day, we went to St. Peter’s Basilica, we entered the Holy Doors on this Holy Year, and we celebrated the Eucharist with the Rector Major presiding.\u00a0 We prayed for Pope Francis, for the Salesian Congregation and the entire Salesian Family, and for you, young people.\u00a0 Personally, I prayed for each one of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our founder Don Bosco encouraged \u201cfilial loyalty to Peter\u2019s successor and to his teaching\u2026\u201d (Salesian Constitution 13). Let us be in solidarity with the Church and with the world by not only mourning the loss of Pope Francis and praying for God\u2019s mercy on his soul, but, more importantly, by living the Gospel of Joy that Francis proclaimed with his life and his teachings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It really is great to be back home. I hope to see you soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sincerely in Christ and in Don Bosco,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
P. Mel<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Salesian Family & Salesian Young People: A blessed Easter to all of you! It is with joy that we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and it is with sadness that we mourn the loss of our Holiness Pope Francis.\u00a0 May he rest in eternal peace, and may he continue to pray and intercede for our Salesian Family. As many of you … Continuar leyendo Easter Greetings from Fr. Mel Trinidad, Provincial USA West<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":20427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20310044],"tags":[35890],"class_list":["post-20424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-province-news","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_0898-1.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-5jq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20430,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20424\/revisions\/20430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}