We Celebrate Don Bosco

Let us celebrate together, thanking God for Don Bosco our Father,

For the gift he is to each of us, with grateful hearts our praises we sing.

The Bicentenary of our Father and Founder’s birth, is not just a passing event, it is something that should leave a deep and lasting impression on us. WE CELEBRATE DON BOSCO is the theme as well as logo that stands out in the chapel of the Novitiate at Nasik, to mark this great year. The year began with an inaugural prayer service which both the Maria Vihar and Novitiate communities celebrated together on the 16^th of August 2014. As a community, we at SHTC have taken up different initiatives to keep up the whole year. Every 30^th / 31^st is Don Bosco’s commemoration, and we celebrate it with animated meditations, rosaries and prayers. We have taken up the deep study of Don Bosco’s Dream of the Ten Diamonds. The flex marking this solemn year is displayed at the entrance of the Novitiate for all to see. Every day for the visit to the Blessed Sacrament, we have the ‘Prayer to St. John Bosco’  prayed together. 

For the community gratitude day on the 16^th October the novices staged a musical Don Bosco and the young, fruit of their effort. The novices attend classes on Salesian spirituality and have also attended many other seminars till now in keeping with the celebration of the bicentenary. In other words, this year will not just be remembered but fondly cherished by the Novitiate community as a year of great learning of the spirituality of our dear St. John Bosco.