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 – Our prayer for vocations
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Holy Spirit is more powerful than secularism
- Initiatives for our prayer for vocations
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 – Consecrated life at the present day
Contents:
- Introduction
- Relevance of the Congress
- Original arrangement of the themes
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Egidio Viganò – «Charism and prayer»
Contents:
- Introduction
- Fascination of charisms
- The individual in a praying dialogue
- The originality of christian prayer
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Egidio Viganò – The prophetic stimulus of the European Synod
Contents:
- Introduction
- The European Bishops Synod
- Collapse of ideologies?
- Exhortation to apostolic breadth of vision
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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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Egidio Viganò – The “New Evangelization”
Contents:
- Introduction
- The ‘pastoral’ concern of the Council
- New frontiers
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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