'austraLasia'
#607
DON BOSCO'S MADONNA
IS NOW
ONLINE
by Ian Doulton, sdb
From the resources of Tej Prasarini
#66
Mumbai, May 17:
Don Bosco's Madonna, the monthly magazine that began as a humble
leaflet in 1937 is known to be the largest circulating Catholic Periodical
in India and more, it is now online. His Eminence Cardinal Ivan Dias of the
Archdiocese of Bombay launched the Don Bosco's Madonna website by a
click on the mouse in the presence of the Salesian Provincial Fr. Ivo Coelho,
Vice Provincial Fr. Adolph Furtado and the magazine and website editor, Fr.
Ian Doulton at the shrine office in Matunga, Mumbai recently.The address of
the site: http://www.donboscomadonna.faithweb.com
Don Bosco's Madonna, which is now read in
almost every catholic home in Bombay and widespread all over India began
as the brain child of the late Rev. Fr. Aurelius Maschio. Fr. Maschio, the
Patriach of the vast Salesian Province of Mumbai and who is instrumental
building up majority of it's institutions was once asked: "Should it happen that
one day all your work is destroyed, where would you begin building again?"
Without the blink of an eye, he said: "I'll begin with Don Bosco's Madonna."
The website facilitates viewing the magazine online. The
slogan: "Take The Madonna Home With You" runs as a ticker tape through
the website. Since the magazine is an organ of the Shrine of Don Bosco's
Madonna, there are links to the Shrine and the biography of Fr. Maschio which
are still being developed. The Shrine site provides the facility of praying
the rosary online as one views the Stain Glass windows in the shrine.
The website is also working at a virtual tour of the shrine together
with shrine news and highlights of forthcoming events.
The site has added to the popularity of the magazine
which is heading for its 100,000 mark from the 98,200 where it presently stands.
