Contents:
- 1. Our poverty: Freedom and detachment
- Investing in the community
- Sign of the salesian mission
- Work and temperance
- Wise administration
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – He has reconciled us to himself and has given us the ministry of Reconciliation
Contents:
- 1. Grace and mercy enfold our life
- “Mediante Christo”
- Freely given love and salesian practice
- 2. Love leads to judgement
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – «Experts, witnesses and craftsmen of Communion». The salesian community – animating nucleus
Contents:
- Introduction
- I. A new phase in our community life
- 1. Strong expectations
- 2. Animating nucleus
- 3. The goal
- 4. The present moment
- 5. The model for reference
- II. A community process for becoming an animating nucleus
- 1. Redesigning the mission
- 2. A way of life for communicating a spirituality
- 3. Making the salesian community a “family” able to arouse communion around the salesian mission
- 4. Giving to our educative activity and to that of the EPC the missionary dynamism of “Da mihi animas”
- 5. Fraternal life and pastoral work for growth
- Conclusion
Reference time period: 1998
J. E. Vecchi, «Experts, Witnesses and Craftsmen of Communion». The salesian community – animating nucleus, in «Acts of the General Council of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco» 80 (1998) 363, 3-44.
Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Letter to the Don Bosco Volunteers, to the Salesians and all groups of the Salesian Family. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Institute
Contents:
- Introduction
- The originality of the Spirit of God
- The ministry of the Rector Major
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Moving together towards the GC24
Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. An extraordinary event
- 2. An event of communion
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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,Juan Edmundo Vecchi – In memory of Fr Egidio Viganò: message of the Holy Father; Homily of Vicar General
Contents:
- 1.1 In memory of Fr Egidio VIGANO: A message of hope
- 1.2 Message of the Holy Father and the Homily of Vicar General
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 – Consecrated life at the present day
Contents:
- Introduction
- Relevance of the Congress
- Original arrangement of the themes
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Egidio Viganò – Don Philip Rinaldi, authentic witness and interpreter of the «salesian spirit»
Contents:
- The beatification of Don Rinaldi
- The history of the cause
- The significance of the event for us
- The story of Don Rinaldi’s life
- At the vertex midway through the first salesian century
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Egidio Viganò – Convocation of 23rd General Chapter
Contents:
- Introduction
- Convocation in accordance with the Constitutions
- Particular character of the GC23
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Egidio Viganò – From Peking towards 88
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Feast of the Assumption at Peking
- Don Bosco’s missionary dreams