John Bosco Mission To Love
Hortense Malovich
A. I got my Bachelors degree at Concordia University Irvine. I studied English and got my Teaching Credential at Concordia University. I also attended Chapman University and got my Masters degree in English. I am currently attending Claremont Graduate University and pursuing my Doctorate degree in English.
A. Yes! I helped build Orange Lutheran Online starting 20 years ago. I created online classes, trained and taught online as a teacher, became an administrator and oversaw the day to day running of the online school and visioning for the future. This included hiring, training, and supervising online teachers, developing and overseeing curriculum creation, and working with students and our office team to support everyone in their roles.
A. Mr. Crawford, our Dean of Admissions, is one of my former English students and we have been co-workers in the past. He recommended me as someone who could successfully build an online school for Bosco. I was interested in moving to a new school because of the opportunity and challenge of starting at a new school, being reinvigorated as an educator, and I believe God led me to this school.
A. I love the general atmosphere at Bosco. I feel very peaceful here on campus and with the students. I also love the Salesian Mission and the commitment to the students. Don Bosco set a great example for us and I hope to follow in his footsteps.
A. I have loved being at Bosco. The administration is incredibly supportive. The teachers are all on a mission together, which I especially appreciate. The best part, of course, is working with individual students and seeing them succeed.
A. At this point, I love checking in with our students who work in the Learning Commons every day. I really enjoy supporting and encouraging students. I also like doing the same for our online teachers. I am a nurturer so I like taking care of and coaching those around me to be their best. I also really appreciate working with the administration and teachers and being a part of the overall mission of the school.
A. I am a little bit obsessed with Star Wars right now and am trying to watch all of the movies and series in order. I am watching Rebels right now. I also love to travel, bake, swim, paint, and walk!
A. Trout and Ohtani are stand-out professional athletes for me for sure. They are both incredible athletes who, in addition to being naturally gifted, also work hard to improve and be the best they can be. I appreciate their work ethic and their fair play.
A. I am a recent breast cancer survivor. I was diagnosed in July 2020 with Stage 2 cancer. I underwent chemo, 4 surgeries, and radiation. God healed me and has allowed me to use this experience to give him glory and to share my experiences with others and support them through similar circumstances. I have no evidence of cancer for almost 2 years now.
We are the largest Congregation of women religious with over 11,000 Sisters serving in 97 countries. Founded in 1872 by St. John Bosco and St. Mary Mazzarello, the Salesian Sisters are dedicated to reaching the youth for Christ. In 1908, we began our ministry in America in Paterson, New Jersey, and we have been growing our mission of love across North America ever since!
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My first trip was to remote areas in Ecuador where we set up and tore down clinics every day seeing close to 2000 people. On my second trip we went to the red-light district in Panama where we heard gun shots the first day and created a clinic in a church attached to a school. This mission was different. We were heading to one of the largest penitentiaries in South America to work with maximum security inmates.
Our team of 18 came from numerous states, backgrounds and cultures, but we all had a heart for helping, making a difference and faith in Christ, our greatest protector and healer. There was much chatter amongst our team about our expectations. Most had no idea what our hours would be like or what kind of conditions to anticipate.
On our first full day we met our Colombian team of missionaries, interpreters and volunteers who spent innumerable hours, hard work and determination to see this mission come to fruition. They shared with us what to expect when entering the prison and the many rules we needed to follow, as well as fellowship, prayer and food.
Luckily, the clinic had already been mostly set up the day before by a few members from both of our teams, so there was minimal preparation each day prior to seeing inmates. We had many triage nurses and interpreters near registration and their tireless energy was catching. Our doctors, nurse practitioners, optical team and pharmacy were non-stop and also shared the energy of those strengthened by God. Each person shared kindness, their unique expertise, and prayers. As a whole, we saw about 750 people. Each individual had the opportunity for much needed medical attention, glasses as well as dental.
The last day, for me was also different. After helping move the clinic, we discussed my teaching workshops to the ladies incarcerated there. It was a privilege to go with a team of 4 from our Colombian team and guards to the actual facilities where they lived. Looking at what was available to them and observing their movement patterns and discomfort I was able to quickly devise a plan to help as many as possible. Our Colombian hosts provided preaching and song, followed by my impromptu clinic to assist in changing movement patterns to help in reducing neck, back and knee issues and sharing exercises, correct lifting techniques as well as post pregnancy corrective exercises. I told them what a blessing it was to be there with them and that I would be keeping them in my prayers. The women I met were from young adults to seniors. Their hugs, appreciation and smiles will always be remembered.
The people I was blessed to work with have hearts of gold and are the epitome of the kindness and hard work necessary in making an immense change medically and spiritually. I also fell in love with the beautiful people and country of Colombia, their food, culture, warmth, and hospitality and hope to return again in the not too distant future.
After each mission trip, I have made changes to my life. Since returning, I look around and am thankful for the many blessings I have been given, a beautiful family and home, amazing clients, clean water, a safe place to live and freedom. With much encouragement from others, my goal is to provide courses starting in 2020 to help more individuals at a larger scale.
On January 31, we celebrate the Feast of Saint John Bosco, whose heart for orphans inspired the founding of the Salesian Order. Centuries later, the Salesians continue his mission of love for children with thousands of members around the globe.
As a young man, John became a street entertainer, performing acrobatics, magic tricks, and other amusements. On Sunday mornings, his antics entranced young boys, who he encouraged to attend Mass. When John was 16, he studied theology in Turin, where he continued his youth ministry. He started a homeless shelter for boys, with the help of his mother as housekeeper. John taught the boys different trades so that they could make a living for themselves once they were of age.
Nevertheless, given the straitened family circumstances and tension with his step-brother because of his inclination to study, John was sent to work as a farmhand at the Moglia farm from February 1828 until November 1829. When he returned to the family, thanks to the support of the elderly chaplain Fr John Calosso he was able to pursue his primary schooling at Castelnuovo and his secondary years at the Royal College in Chieri.
As a twenty-year-old he made a decisive choice in 1835 to enter the diocesan seminary at Chieri. His seminary years were spiritually demanding for him if for no other reason than that the disciplinary regime and rigoristic moral theology courses contrasted with a temperament given to more expansive freedom and a creative practical approach. At this seminary, John Bosco assimilated the values which the austere rules and formation tradition offered the young clerics: intense study, a spirit of sincere piety, recollectedness, obedience, inner and outward discipline. But he was able to count on the knowledge and awareness of Fr Joseph Cafasso, also a native of Castelnuovo and a collaborator of Dr (Fr) Luigi Guala in Turin at the Convitto or Pastoral Institute of St Francis of Assisi, aimed at improving the young cleric in pastoral practice. Until his own life ended, Cafasso was a teacher of moral theology and pastoral practice for Don Bosco, as well as confessor, spiritual director, adviser.
Don Bosco as a young priest was also more and more involved in the profound and complex changes of a political, social and cultural nature that would mark his entire life: revolutionary movements, war and the exodus of the rural population to the cities were all factors impacting on the conditions of life of the people especially if they were people from the poorer stratum of society. Packed into the outskirts of the cities, the poor in general and young people in particular were subjected to exploitation or became victims of unemployment. They were inadequately followed up in human, moral, religious terms and in preparation for work. Often they were totally neglected. Sensitive to every change, the young people were often insecure and lost. In the face of these masses without roots, traditional education was at a loss. Philanthropists, educators, clergy of every kind were struggling to meet the new needs.
Don Bosco also began to stand out for publishing a number of books aimed at the boys and republished on multiple occasions: Church History For Use in Schools (1847), The Companion of Youth (1847), The Metric Decimal System Made Simple (1849). In March 1853, with the support of Bishop L. Moreno of Ivrea, he began publication of the Catholic Readings/ a collection of pocket-sized periodicals averaging around a hundred pages, filled with articles written in a style easily accessible for the limited literacy of the world of the farmers and craftsmen. Don Bosco used the Catholic Readings to publish the majority of his apologetic, catechetical, devotional and hagiographical writings, aimed thereby at a positive presentation of the Catholic Church, the Papacy and the work of the oratories.
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