Juan Edmundo Vecchi – The Salesian Family is 25 years old!

Contents:

• Introduction
• A history open to the future
• The new ecclesial sensitivity

• Starting again from the Constitutions
• The Salesian Family: constitutive principles
  • 1. It is a single entity
  • 2. An ensemble of groups
  • 3. A necessary element: ecclesiality
  • 4. A requirement: formally constituted groups
• The life of the Salesian Family
  • 1. Vocational participation in Don Bosco’s charism
  • 2. Diversified sharing in the salesian spirit and spirituality
  • 3. Cultivation of a love of preditection for the young
  • 4. Titles to membership of the Salesian Family
• Service to the Salesian Family
  • 1. Animation, a communal commitment
  • 2. The work of confreres who are qualified and willing
  • 3. A competent service from a salesian standpoint
• New perspectives emerging from the GC24
  • 1. The Friends of Don Bosco
  • 2. The Salesian Movement
• Let us return to the young
• Conclusion

Reference time period: 1972 – 1997

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB