Ángel Fernández Artime – Moved by hope: “See, I am making all things new” (Rev 21:5)

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

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB