{"id":5832,"date":"2022-12-05T15:26:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T23:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2025-04-22T18:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T01:46:48","slug":"day-5-rms-visit-the-rector-major-celebrates-mass-commemorating-the-125th-anniversary-and-honoring-jubilarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2022\/12\/05\/day-5-rms-visit-the-rector-major-celebrates-mass-commemorating-the-125th-anniversary-and-honoring-jubilarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 – RM’s Visit:\u00a0The Rector Major Celebrates Mass Commemorating the 125th Anniversary and Honoring Jubilarians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saturday, 19\u00a0November\u00a02022 – Day 5

(San Francisco, California)\u00a0<\/strong>– After continuous back-to-back festivities, the Rector Major had a lighter schedule on the fifth day of his visit to the San Francisco Bay Area.\u00a0 He spent some time with the Provincial and his Council and encouraged them in their continuing service to the province, Congregation, and the Church.\u00a0 He expressed his joy in seeing that the Salesians are serving a very diverse group of people in the province.\u00a0 The question of sending additional Salesian Missionaries to serve the growing needs of the the diverse groups of young people and their families in the western United States, was also proposed to the Rector Major.\u00a0 After the meeting, the provincial and his Council took the Rector Major and the Regional, Fr. Hugo Orozco to a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown for lunch to continue their fraternal time together.
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Later in the evening at Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco, the Rector Major Don \u00c1ngel presided at the Mass commemorating the 125th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Salesian Missionaries to the United States (1897-2022).\u00a0 Also joining the celebration was Provincial Fr. Tim Zak of the Eastern Province of the United States.\u00a0 In the Rector Major’s homily he began by recalling briefly the humble beginnings of the Salesian presence in the U.S.–that the Salesians were originally sent to serve Italian immigrants and that the Salesians continue to work with all immigrant families to this day.\u00a0 He continued with some of his heart-felt impressions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n