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Scouter Development Training — 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Aug. 14 at the Diocesan Pastoral Center. Scout leaders will father for formation including leadership, holiness, conversion and worship. Learn more about Scouting in the Catholic Church.

Things to do, watch, know for Aug. 13-15

Help Maggie’s Place move back in — 9 a.m. at The Magdalene House west of downtown Phoenix. To register, call Megan (602) 257-4648 or e-mail mpena@maggiesplace.org. The moms and babies are ready to move back in after an attic fire destroyed the home last year.

“Don Bosco” — 8-10 p.m. Aug. 14 EDT (5-7 p.m. in Arizona) on EWTN. Catch the first half of a two-part biography of St. John Bosco (1815-1888), the founder of the Salesians, “whose unconditional love and glowing witness of Christ changed the lives of countless impoverished boys in his native Italy and beyond,” according to the USCCB. The profile concludes Aug. 21. St. John Bosco’s influence can be seen in the Phoenix Diocese at St. John Bosco School and the Salesians of Don Bosco, better known as the Salesian Sisters who serve at St. John Vianney Parish, School and the surrounding Goodyear community.

Archdiocese of Santa Fe’s 400th anniversary —  Phoenix’s two bishops will be on hand Aug. 15 to celebrate a Mass closing the celebration year.

“Solemn Mass of the Assumption” — noon-2 p.m. EDT Aug. 15 on EWTN (live from Washington’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception). U.S. Cardinal John Foley, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, will be the celebrant and homilist at this liturgy celebrating the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.