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PASTORAL ASSIGNMENTS FOR 2012-‐2013

(to take effect July 1, 2012)

DIRECTORS

Fr. Chinh Nguyen

Fr. Joseph Nguyen (2nd term)

Don Bosco Technical Institute, Rosemead

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Fr. Melchor Trinidad Salesian High School, Richmond

VOCATION DIRECTOR

Fr. Jose Lucero

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COORDINATORS OF YOUTH MINISTRY (CYM’S)

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Fr. Thien Nguyen

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Fr. Rafael Saíz (MEG)

FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATORS

Fr. Tho Bui

Bro. Joseph Lockwood

Fr. Tuan Nguyen

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FORMATION

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Fr. Chris Woerz

Theology

Bro. Ricardo Ramos

OTHERS

Fr. Thinh Nguyen

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Fr. Robert Stein

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Bro. Al Vu

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Senior Day of Entertainment

By Joe Rodriguez

At St. Dominic Savio Parish in

Bell ower, the Senior Day of En-

tertainment (SDE) has become

an annual event presented by the

Multi-Media Outreach Program

(MOP). But it is more than a

talent show put on by the par-

ish youth, it is an intentionally

interactive gathering with the

seniors of the parish. The pro-

gram’s focus is personal contact

with them, breaking down gener-

ational barriers. As such, seniors

are not surprised when youth

recognize them, approach them

after Mass and engage them in

conversation.

The youth of our parish are pre-

cious, gifted, talented and gener-

ous in every way. MOP helps

the young discover and develop

their gifts through various ac-

tivities like the SDE. The young

become aware of social justice

needs within our community and

parish and they nd ways to ad-

dress some of them through sim-

ple acts of kindness. In doing so

the young are formed to respond

“Doing ordinary things

extraordinarily well”

to God’s call and more prepared

to consider also religious life.

This year’s SDE gives thanks to

our youth director, Miriam Her-

nandez, a 21 year-old young lady,

one of our original MOP mem-

bers and a fomer Salesian Volun-

teer for the Salesian oratories in

Tijuana. She continues to be a

role model for the young.

We also thank our key collabo-

rators: Brother Joe Lockwood

and Elisa Pinedo for the food

that was prepared and donated

for this event, Cathy Hirshey

who donated the gifts and most

importantly, Sister Dolores Rio-

jas and Juan Carlos Montenegro,

who continue to provide their

support and encouragement.

Joe Rodriguez is Vocation Anima-

tor and Coordinator for the Multi-

media Outreach Program

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Salesians of St. John Bosco

1100 Franklin Street

San Francisco, CA 94109

Phone: (626) 280- 8 622 #35

E- m ail: intouch@salesiansc.org

Weekly publications will be

distributed on Thursdays. Please

submit news for publication by

Friday of each week.

Send contributions to:

intouch@salesiansc.org.

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Senior

Thank You!

By Marie O’Donnell

Dear Youth Ministry,

Many thanks for the wonder-

ful day you provided our seniors

today. What a wonderful group

of young people all of you are.

The band was so good. I would

like to see you on YouTube on

the computer. It’s free and they

will get lots of publicity. They

should become professionals.

All the entertainment was su-

perb, with so much e ort you put

into it. The food was so good

as well as prizes and all. I can’t

express my thanks enough. Well,

you all made my day. In fact, it

made the whole week!

So dear children, again I express

my sincere thanks and apprecia-

tion to all of you, and wish many

of God’s blessings to you all. I’m

looking forward to the next get

toether and hopefully I can be

there.

Love sincerely to you all,

Marie O’Donnell

Parishioner since 1947

The an nou ncemen t &

invitation of

B r . Ch u yen’s d iaconate

in Je r usalem

SALESIANS

OF DON BOSCO

With praise and gratitude to God,

the Salesians of Don Bosco

and the Missionaries of Africa joyfully

announce the Diaconal Ordination

of 12 confreres

by His Beatitude Fouad Twal ,

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

June 9, 2012, Saturday 9:30 AM

St Catherine’s Church,

Bethlehem

Jean Marie Amalebondra, M.Afr (Congo)

Boris Yabre, M.Afr (Burkina Faso)

Giuseppe Di Sario, SDB (Italy-IME)

Edoardo Gnocchini, SDB (Italy-ILE)

Szymon Kasprzak, SDB (Poland-PLN)

Dariusz Mencel, SDB (Poland-PLO)

Ratna Neelam, SDB (India-INH/ICC)

Chuyen Doan Nguyen, SDB (USA-SUO)

Giampaolo Nicastro, SDB (Italy-IME)

Lorenzo G. Piola, SDB (Italy-INE)

Isley Queiroz do Nascimento, SDB (Brazil-BMA)

James Zettel, SDB (Canada-SUE)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Dear Br. Zanella,

HAPPY 97th BIRTH-

DAY!

We celebrate YOU

and the inspiration

you are to so many in

your Salesian Family.

God bless you richly

on your birthday and

always!

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Beati cation of

GIUSEPPE TONIOLO

Salesian Cooperator

On Sunday, April 29, at the ba-

silica of St. Paul’s Outside the

Walls in Rome, Prof. Giuseppe

Toniolo (1845-1918), econo-

mist and sociologist, activist in

Catholic Action, organizer of the

Catholic Social Weeks in Italy,

was beati ed. A contemporary of

Don Bosco, after having come to

know him personally, he became

a Salesian Cooperator.

Don Bosco and Blessed Toniolo

met at Pisa in May 1887. The

former was already well known as

an educator of the humble, and

the latter was becoming known

as a teacher and guide for Italian

Catholics in the social eld.

When they met Don Bosco play-

fully asked the professor to teach

him economics. Prof. Toniolo in-

sisted that the saint should send

his Salesians to Pisa, where he

lived and taught. The Salesians

were to arrive in Pisa only lat-

er, but Prof. Toniolo was so im-

pressed by the conversation that

he decided to enroll as a Coop-

erator.

Born at Treviso in 1845, thanks

to his natural gifts and applica-

tion to his studies of economics

and social problems, Giuseppe

Toniolo had a swift career as a

teacher in state institutes, and

then at 24 he was a university as-

sistant lecturer in Padua; at 34 a

lecturer in political economics at

the University of Pisa; at 37 the

professor at the same university.

A Catholic through and through,

it was a great triumph for him to

have obtained a chair in a state

university at a time when materi-

alism dominated the universities

and politics was often anticleri-

cal.

Giuseppe Toniolo dedicated all

his energies to political econo-

my, to sociology, and to statis-

tics. Such was his competence in

these areas that he was able to

challenge successfully the current

Marxist and positivist teaching.

The social teaching of the Church

had an able exponent in Toniolo

not only on the academic level

but also among the people, as

he became the leader and orga-

nizer of a magni cent movement

spreading Christian thinking and

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practice among workers.

In his view, workers needed to be

aware that they were not mere

instruments to be used as long

as they were needed or until they

wore out. Also through their

work they were fully men, and

even more, sons of God.

In the current world economic

crisis, it would seem also very

useful to draw on the depth of

thought of Blessed Giuseppe To-

niolo, Salesian Cooperator.

Fr. Robert Delis, SDB

will continue his service as

Marine Corps Chaplain

in the Military Ordinariate

after his statutory retirement

this September.

Congratulations Captain!

Novice Chris Carlson

(SUE)

After discernment and

careful accompaniment

Chris has decided not to apply

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and has left the novitiate.

God bless you, Chris!

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DS H U

What a FIASCO!

By Bro. Joe Lockwood, SDB

The expected day, April 30, 2012

had nally arrived…the day

for drilling of the cylinder

hole for the elevator plung-

er. All our expectations

came tumbling down when

the drilling auger arrived

on the job site. We learned

that the requirements for

the drill auger, explained

by the Mitsubishi represen-

tative in the April 13 issue

of InTouch, were really er-

roneous.

This asco has put the

completion of the project

back at least two months.

Why? Because demolish-

ing “Bro. Jack’s old bicycle

shop” was postponed un-

til the temporary power

line is erected next to the

residence building and that

was postponed because

of the misinformation.

The contractor contacted

Southern California Edison

last week and they said that they

would schedule the installation

of the temporary power line in

12 to 14 days.

The I-beam:

Building Inspector, Mr. Ander-

son, questioned why the pour-

ing of the concrete wall and

the installation of structural

I-beams were not done in one

step. The Mitsubishi represen-

tative said the auger could not

function with structural I-beams

in place. Again the representa-

tive was wrong. The elevator pit

The 25-foot elevator plunger

could have been done in one step

instead of two. The cold joints

would have been eliminated

(when the concrete isn’t poured

all at one time) and that would

have satis ed the Building In-

spector.

The cylinder hole was drilled 25

feet deep and a berglass liner

was installed. The soil was back

lled around the cylinder, and

then the 25-foot plunger was

inserted into the cylinder. The

elevator car will be attached to

the plunger. To nish pouring

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the corners of the elevator

pit, the contractors had

to remove the back lled

soil, form the corners and

then erect the structural I-

beams.

Meanwhile. . .

The paint contractor was

busy patching all of the

holes and cracks, and pres-

sure washing the exterior

of the building. Then he

sprayed on a sealer prim-

er coat. The plastering

contractor removed all of

the old gas heater vents,

patched the vent holes

with wood and then ap-

plied stucco. The electri-

cians continued pulling out

all of the old electrical wir-

ing and running the new

ones. The electrical panel

boxes on the second and

third oors are installed but the

re proo ng around the panels

still has to be done.

But Wait!

On May 1st, the Assistant Build-

ing and Safety Director paid the

building site a visit and met with

the principal party of the proj-

ect. The group toured the third

oor and he pointed out to the

contractor and other members of

the group 14 items that are not

in compliance with the UBC.

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Another issue that the contrac-

tor is facing is that the building

classi cation, once considered an

“existing structure”(meaning all

of the construction when it was

built was approved), has been

changed. When termites (as re-

ported last week) were found in

some of the structural members,

the classi cation was changed to

“non-existing”. The rami cation

of this change in classi cation

means that the City has to ap-

prove the repair.

The installation of the

25-foot cylinder casing

The great drilling auger!

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: almost a nation

(ANS – Rome) – If it were an

independent nation, Facebook

would be in third place after Chi-

na and India in terms of popula-

tion. It would be a superpower at

world level which could aspire to

a permanent seat on UN Security

Council.

The Wall Street Journal has pub-

lished some data on the popula-

tion of the social network found-

ed by Mark Zuckerberg. On 31st

March this year, Facebook had

901 million users active during

the month, 33% higher than the

680 million on 31st March 2011.

The data was obtained from doc-

umentation provided to the Secu-

rities and Exchange Commission

(SEC) in view of the launch of

the social network on the Stock

Exchange.

Facebook has a population three

times greater than that of the

United States. Compared with

the two superpowers on the plan-

et in a demographic, but also an

economic sense, Facebook has

300 millions citizens less than

India and about 400 million less

than China. The data sent to the

SEC show a constant increase in

the number of users. During 2011

Facebook saw a growth of 72

million users (11.9%) in the rst

quarter, of 59 million (8.7%) in

the second, 61 million (8.2%) in

the third and 45 million (5.6%)

in the fourth quarter. In the rst

quarter of 2012 the increase was

56 million (6.6%).

These gures, from just one so-

cial network, demonstrate how

the ‘digital continent,’ without

geographical borders, has a real

existence. The world of com-

merce is well aware of this: the

launch of Facebook on the stock

exchange was welcomed with en-

thusiasm.

AdgeignSietaraleal stiiaonn?

priests, religious and semi-

narians. Although it is lim-

ited to Italian context, the

inquiry is surely indicative

of the situation in wider so-

ciety, in the Church, and, in

(ANS – Rome) – Interesting

results are arriving from research

carried out by the Catholic Uni-

versity of Milan’s Centre for

Research in Education for Me-

dia and Information Technology

(CREMIT) and the Department

of Institutions and Society of the

University of Perugia on behalf of

the Italian Association of Catho-

lic Webmasters. The research

our case, in the Salesian context.

The research carried out by CRE-

MIT shows that 20% of diocesan

priests and of male religious have

a pro le on Facebook. This is

higher than that of Italian citi-

zens in general. The percentage

rises to 59.7% for seminarians, a

clear sign of the greater use of

such sites by younger genera-

tions.

concerns the use of Facebook by Read more

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“The digital world presents us

with new challenges. It’s not just

a matter of sur ng the web or

being able to read something on

a screen; it’s about approaching

the situation with new hermeneu-

tic criteria and discovering novel

methods of pastoral activity. Our

mission to young people, in edu-

cation and evangelisation, can

only take advantage from this if

we enter it in the style of ‘Sale-

sian Assistance’, with the pasto-

ral heart of Don Bosco.”

Fr. Filiberto Gonzalez, SDB,

General Councilor for Social

Communication