Annual Meeting of North American Salesian Network

Annual Meeting of North American Salesian Network

(ANS – New York – April 30, 2021) - On April 12-13, the North American Salesian Network (NASN) held its annual meeting via Zoom at the DeSales Retreat Center in Brooklyn, Mich. The NASN brings together organizations that share the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales. For Don Bosco’s Salesian Family, they include the provinces of the Salesians and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, the three provinces of the Salesian Cooperators, and the Volunteers with Don Bosco. In recent years the NASN has been working toward the 400th anniversary of the death of St. Francis de Sales, to be celebrated in 2022, to draw attention to his spirituality and apostolic activity. On the initiative of Fr. Joe Boenzi and the NASN, a request signed by Fr. Angel Fernandez Artime and the generals of the OSFS and MSFS on behalf of each organization was presented to Pope Francis asking him to write an apostolic letter for the anniversary.