Contents:
- 1. CONVOCATION OF THE GC26
- 1.1 Reasons for choice of the theme
- 1.2 Steps that led to the choosing of the theme
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Sickness and old age in the salesian experience
Contents:
- The seasons of life
- I. Sickness
- The experience of sickness in our consecrated life
- With our eye on Don Bosco
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Sent to bring good news to the poor
Contents:
- 1. Our poverty
- Freedom and detachment
- Investing in the community
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Egidio Viganò – Convocation of 24th General Chapter
Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Official convocation
- 2. The choice of the theme
- 3. A rapid glance at salesian tradition
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Egidio Viganò – The prophetic stimulus of the European Synod
Contents:
- Introduction
- The European Bishops Synod
- Collapse of ideologies?
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Egidio Viganò – The “New Evangelization”
Contents:
- Introduction
- The ‘pastoral’ concern of the Council
- New frontiers
Egidio Viganò – A requirement of the Preventive System
Contents:
- An authentic and urgent request
- Original inspiration
- A requirement of the Preventive System
- The idea of youth Associations today
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Luigi Ricceri – Our responsibility in the light of the Acts of the XIXth General Chapter
Contents:
- 1. The new series of the “Acts of the Superior Council”
- 2. Consoling union of minds and hearts
- 3. Our responsibility in the light of the Acts of the XIXth General Chapter
Francis J. Moloney – Salesians beyond 2000
In the article, Fr. Frank looks at the images of God and Community and poses questions that young people in Western Societies are facing on the threshold of the Third Millennium. He moves from the contemporary to the scriptural, and looks at the figure of Jesus and questions of discipleship as posed in the New Testament. What is the significance of discipleship in the Gospels? How does this significance speak to our reality? to our vocation as Christians, and as Salesians? These are the questions of the middle portion of Fr. Moloney’ s reflections.
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Giovanni Bosco – Exemplary biographies
The biographical profiles of Louis Comollo (in the 1854 edition), Dominic Savio, Michael Magone and Francis Besucco are among the spiritual and pedagogical documents which are most representative of Don Bosco’s outlook. From these stories comes a horizon of meaning, a way of thinking and acting thoroughly rooted in his cultural context. At the same time however, beyond historical contingencies, they highlight a range of elements which better illustrate the characteristic features of the saint’s spiritual pedagogy.