Contents:
- Visit to Albania (IME)
- Don Bosco Boys Town, Rome
- Retreat at Fatima
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – Priority of animation and main lines of action
Contents:
- Origins of and reasons behind the Project
- The need for a Project
- Priority of animation and main lines of action
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Towards the 25th General Chapter
Contents:
- I. CONVOCATION
- The hour of the GC25
- Our journey
- 2. THEME OF THE GC25
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – “The Father consecrates us and sends us”
Contents:
- I. A CONSECRATED LIFE
- 1. A pressing invitation
- 2. A key-word
- 3. The joyful experience of having received a gift
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Letter to the Don Bosco Volunteers, to the Salesians and all groups of the Salesian Family. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Institute
Contents:
- Introduction
- The originality of the Spirit of God
- The ministry of the Rector Major
Egidio Viganò – And Mary laid him in a manger
Contents:
- Introduction
- At the core of salesian “significance”
- Light from the Word of God
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Egidio Viganò – “Our African commitment”
Contents:
- “Our African commitment”
- The Rector Major in Black Africa
- This is Africa’s hour
Luigi Ricceri – A New Series of the Acts Begin
Contents:
- The ASG as a Means of Animation
- Historical Background
- A New Series of the Acts Begin
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Luigi Ricceri – Convocation of the 21st General Chapter
Contents:
- 1.1 Convocation of the 21st General Chapter
- 1.2 “We are undertaking a matter of the greatest importance” (D. Bosco)
- 1.3 Two additional news items
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John Dickson – An introduction to Don Rua’s letters to England
Michael Rua (1837-1910) was a pupil, then the lifetime collaborator and finally, the first successor of St. John Bosco as Rector Major of the Salesian Society (1888-1910). During his Rectorate the Salesians grew from 1030 members in 64 houses to 4420 confreres scattered across the globe. Don Rua’s letters to England offer the reader a glimpse of the character of their writer and of the pastoral care he took of a small group of relatively insignificant Salesians in what was very often the inhospitable atmosphere of the British empire at the height of its power.
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