Ángel Fernández Artime – “Do all through love, nothing through constraint” (Saint Francis de Sales). In the fourth centenary of the death of St Francis de Sales: two giants in continuity with one another in the Salesian charism

Contents:

• 1. Nothing through constraint. Freedom is God’s gift This is why our system of education appeals to other resources “other than constraint”
• 2. God’s presence in the human heart: We recognise “the desire for God, which everyone has in the depths of his being”
• 3. Life in God: that “brings together educators and youngsters” in a unique
  experience of life
• 4. A kind and friendly way of dealing with people: which leads to living with our youngsters “in a family experience of trust and dialogue”

• 5. Unconditional and unrestrained love: “Imitating God’s patience, we encounter the young at their present stage of freedom”
• 6. The need for a spiritual guide: “we then accompany them so that they may develop solid convictions”
• 7. “All through love”: so that “they may gradually assume the responsibility for the delicate process of their growth as human beings and as men of faith”
• Conclusion

Reference time period: 2022

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB