Contents:
- I. A consecrated life
- 1. A pressing invitation
- 2. A key-word
- 3. The joyful experience of having received a gift
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. Our missionary obligation in view of the year 2000
Contents:
- 1. With our gaze fixed on christ.
- 2. A missionary family.
- 3. A new phase in our missionary praxis.
- 4. The primacy of evangelization.
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Church and Family Events
Contents:
- 1. The Synods
- American solidarity
- Asia calls tor the Gospel
- Life and proclamation
- A look towards the young
- Concern for education
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – “For you I study…” (C 14). Satisfactory preparation of the confreres and the quality of our educative work
Contents:
- 1. A theme which crops up repeatedly
- 2. “For you I study”: an indispensable element of the mission to the young
- 3. Why a new insistence at the present day
Egidio Viganò – Reading the Founder’s charism again at the present day
Contents:
- Introduction
- A lived experience
- Two fundamental convictions
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Egidio Viganò – “Be on the watch with your robes hitched up and your lamps alight”
Contents:
- “Religious life and discipline”
- Aversion to the concept of “discipline”
- Spiritual significance of the “Rule of life”
Egidio Viganò – Convocation of 24th General Chapter
Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Official convocation
- 2. The choice of the theme
- 3. A rapid glance at salesian tradition
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Egidio Viganò – The Synod on Consecrated Life
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Synodal Assembly with most members
- The ecclesial aspect in the formulation of the theme
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Egidio Viganò – And Mary laid him in a manger
Contents:
- Introduction
- At the core of salesian “significance”
- Light from the Word of God
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Egidio Viganò – Salesian spirituality for the new evangelization
Contents:
- Introduction.
- Neither the latest fashion nor a continual harping on the same point, but a genuinely new requirement.
- An indispensable source of energy for the journey of faith.
- A daunting reality.
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Egidio Viganò – The priest of the year 2000. A theme we have very much at heart
Contents:
- Introduction.
- 150th anniversary of the priestly ordination of Don Bosco.
- The Synod of 1990, on priestly formation at the present day.
- The “courageous clarity” of the synodal fathers.
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Egidio Viganò – New Education
Contents:
- Introduction: the newly emerging scene in the field of education
- Urgent need of “new education”
- The challenge of the young
- Distinction between “education” and “evangelization” as such
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