Contents:
- 1. You ARE MY LIGHT…
- A look into our own heart
- Sincerity with God and with ourselves
- Ability for listening
- Savouring silence
- Discovering our weaknesses
- Approaching the Father with trust and confidence
- Journeying in prayer
- Letting God speak
- Receiving God’s glance in the depth of our own being
- The experience of some of God’s friends
- 2. THE PRAYER OF THE SALESIAN
- The seeds: Mamma Margaret
- Don Bosco man of prayer
- Following St Francis de Sales
- The oratory hallmark
- A contemplative in action
- Some conditions: Interior attitude
- Intention
- Feeling ourselves God’s instruments for the benefit of the young
- Discovering the presence of the Spirit in the life of the young
- CONCLUSION
- The prayer of our Saints
- The liturgy of life
- Introducing young people to prayer
- Mary, personification of our prayer
Reference time period: 2001
J. E. Vecchi, «When you pray say; Our Father….» (Mt 6,9). The Salesian a man and teacher of prayer for the young, in «Acts of the General Council of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco» 82 (2001) 374, 3-50.
Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB