The Eucharist is the center of our life. We have daily mass and make a daily visit to the Blessed Sacrament in community. We also pray the Liturgy of the Hours in common and have a monthly day of recollection with adoration.





Salesians are known for their strong family spirit and wherever the young are, we can be found!



We enjoy being with young people of all ages.





Salesians are totally awesome at basketball, much better than the Dominicans. waHAHAHhaha.



Our patroness and mother is Mary Help of Christians





If anyone has any Salesian pic feel free to post them! I will dig up more as time goes on.

Nice pics!- I'm in two of those!!

You are such a goof....

I do believe I met you this evening Sister

Don't you know that once you take your vows you become omnipresent... yeah, that's it....

So, were you sufficiently impressed?

You most definitely fit the part of the happy nun Although our meeting was brief, it was awesome (I was also in the group of girls for the Q & A sessions that you were in as well)

Thank you Sister for sharing these lovely pics. Everyone looks sooooo happy.Please send more !!!!

I'm in one of the pictures too! I was wondering when that one would surface on the internet

Ooooo then come to Ann Arbor next year, God willing I will be a Dominican Sister of Mary Mother of the Eucharist in Aug, Dominicans > < Salesians. Haha. I am HUGE Dominican Freak Sister, haha. I really am.

We're also better drinkers said another someone I know. Its custom.

Oh yeah? Is that a challenge? Some day there is going to be the great Salesian-Dominican basketball show down!



This will be the Dominicans ---->

This will be the Salesians ---->

But in the end we will still be like this:

(But Ill be thinking ---> )

That is a challenge!
This will be Salesians ----

This will be the Dominicans ----

But in the end we will be like this:

[And I will be thinking: ]

I look forward to our Dominican-Salesian show down, I wonder what Don and Dom think.

Don and Dom will be attending with

but the Salesians were founded to play games (haha... actually to be with the young, but it kind of goes hand in hand)... so we've got skills on the court you Dominicans can only dream of! so there! ha.

Oh man I think the Dominicans would win! Okay..maybe I'm a little bias

A friend of mine recently told me this joke :
There's this Eucharistic Congress at a parish, and there are all these religious orders present as well as diocesan priests. While they're praying Vespers together, the lights in the parish go out. The Benedictines continue to pray Vespers from memory. The Franciscans praise God for the darkness. The Dominicans begin to discuss the importance of light in eschatalogical thought. The Jesuits begin to debate whether the darkness dispenses them from their obligation to pray the Divine Office. And, the priest, who's parish it is, goes to the basement and flips the breaker to turn the lights back on.


What do you think the Salesians' response would be??

Says who? Honestly, you were founded not long ago! Us Dominicans have been around for 800 years, were the ones that have the "court"

Salesians would use the vigil lights to make shadow puppets to pass the time while the priest is flipping the lights back on.

haha... just kidding, we'd probably take a quick snooze because we are so worn out from work, but the Dominican squabbling would keep us up!

^^ Hey, we have Saint Thomas Aquinas you know!

Um.. St Francis de Sales ..... ! Hello?!

and here is a list for ya'

oh yeah.... we have a lot of saints, too!

HA!

Here is OUR list!

++ OUR Litany ++



Besides O.P. stands for Outsanding. Phenomenal.

Very, very nice... You have a lot of saints. We are just a baby Order, so we are working on it.

Don't worry, Sister! I think Salesians are GREAT! I love Don Bosco and was adopted on his feast day!
I even thought of becoming a FMA but the Lord called me to the cloister.
I think I've read every book of every Salesian saint.

Fr. Rinaldi was a friend of our community way back but I don't know the connection.


Probably the Salesians WOULD win the basketball game!

Great answer about the joke, too!


God bless you, Sister!

Sr. Mary Catharine

Truce??? Have a drink Sister:

Cheers!

Sr. Colleen (or others), could you please explain your name as "Salesians" as you are part of the St. John Bosco family line and not St. Francis de Sales (as I originally thought).

Thanks!


(We're really glad to get a perspective on a new spirituality here on Phatmass.)

*ahem* as a Salesian Cooperator (lay association of the faithful founded by St John Bosco - think "Third Order" but we were really the first put together .... haha) and future aspirant of the Salesian Sisters I would be happy to answer...

St John Bosco took gave us the name "Salesian" after St Francis de Sales because he knew that our work with the young would be difficult at times and he wanted us to imitate the "zeal and gentle charity of SFdS". He wanted us to learn from his practical sense of spirituality, his meeknes, and kindness.

He was a natural choice for Don Bosco, who was familiar with his writings, because he is the favorite saint of Don Bosco's part of Italy - the Piedmont region.



Hence the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians also being known by the name of "Salesian Sisters of St John Bosco".

Sr Colleen can probably add more.

So helpful! Thanks for the clarification. I have a friend who has been personally living a Jesuit-Salesian spirituality (she was taught by Jesuits and Visitation Sisters). And I wanted to know how "her Salesians" were different.

no problemo.

More Pictures!!!!!!!!!



Sista's on the Circle Line




Sr Theresa with her class



Our Provincial, Sr Phyllis, at the Salesian Youth Rally



Sr Frances playing Mama Margaret (St John Bosco's Mother) in a play about Don Bosco



Sr Eileen asking for it!



Prayer is so important!



Some friends and I.



Our aspirants in a class about Mariology.



Aspirant Christine with a young friend!

That is all for now... more to come later.

Good job, kido. There is not much more I could add!

Thanks, Sr Mary Catherine! That is so awesome about Fr Rinaldi.

I do not know if you know this, but Don Bosco said that once anyone has come into contact with the Salesians they automatically become part of the Salesian family (Don't tell AlterDominicus, but you are a SALESIAN because of that! haah!)

That goes for anyone else I have met on here.

We are kind of like pringles... once you pop you can't stop! LOL (I crack myself up... I really do!)

We need prayers and the vocation of the cloistered sisters is so SO important! The active orders (like mine) could not exist without our contemplative sisters supporting us with their love and intercession. So thank you so much for that you do.

Hear that AD? A Dominican said that WE would win. So there!

This is really such a fun thread.

More Pics !!!

Thank you for sharing these lovely pics Your SN is so appropriate Sister........you are always smiling !!

Sr. Colleen--I had to laugh at your reply to Sr. Mary Catharine...I was thinking about the message you left on my facebook wall (<--Lauren!)