Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. A global situation that challenges us and one that we cannot ignore
- 2. What do we mean to say when we speak of hope?
- 3. What interpretation can we offer as believers?
- Time of trial as a time of choosing
- 4. A look our origins and the many witness of faith in our family
- So many other testimonies of hope
- 5. A salesian interpretation of the present moment
- We are not saved by our own strengths alone. No one is saved alone
- More than ever: presence is witness!
- 6. A salesian family that witness to hope
- 6.1. Let us rediscover that “faith and hope go forward together”
- 6.2. Let us learn that prayer is the school of hope
- 6.3. Let us grow by living with a sense of the fatigue of daily life
- 6.4. Let us live hope especially in times of difficulty and loss
- 6.5. Hope as a decisive return to the poor and excluded
- 6.6. Recognising ourselves in the other’s pain
- 6.7. Converting to hope is believing in the plan of the Gospel
- 6.8. A concrete commitment to take up as the Salesian family
- 6.9. A truth to be explored as the fruit of this Strenna
- 7. Mary of Nazareth, mother of God, star of hope
Reference time period: 2021
A. F. Artime, Moved by hope: “See, I am making all things new” (Rev 21:5), in «Acts of the General Council» 103 (2021) 435, 3-36.
Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB