The letter opens with Easter greetings and gratitude for condolences on the author’s father’s passing. It mentions the upcoming beatification of Fr. Bronislaw Marhiewicz and the initiation of Team Visits halfway through the six years following the last General Chapter. These visits aim to understand Salesian life and work across regions, focusing on GC25 implementation and regional challenges. The Region of Northern Europe will be the final one presented in the series on Salesian Europe.
Contents:
- The reason
- Rejuvenating the Church: a gift and a task
- A testimony, a model, an image
- Church, the light of all nations, mystery and sacrament of salvation
- The Church, at one with the joys and hopes of humanity
- Union of the Church with the entire human family
- To whom is the Council addressed
- At the service of men
- Towards a youthful image of the Church
- A witnessing Church
- A liturgical Church
- An evangelizing Church
- A serving Church
- Ecclesial sense in Don Bosco and in Salesian tradition
- For a pedagogy of being Church and living with the Church
- Making the Church known
- Making the meaning of Church more widely known
- Gaining experience of Church
- Leading others to find vocation in the Church
- By way of conclusion: like the colours of the rainbow
Reference time period: 2005
P. Chavez Villanueva, «Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her» (Eph. 5,25). Commentary on the Strenna 2005, in «Acts of the General Council of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco» 86 (2005) 388, 3-44.
Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB