Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Historical approach
- A commitment of fidelity
- Appreciation of our past history
- A new mentality
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “I give thanks to God each time I remember You” (Phil 1,3). Presentation of the Western European Region
Contents:
- Don Bosco in France, Spain, Portugal and Southern Belgium
- The beginnings, a successful planting of the charism
- Spectacular development
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “You will be my witnesses… even to the ends of the Earth” (Acts 1, 8b). Presentation of the Italy-Middle East Region
Contents:
- Family News
- Significance of this letter
- Two important events
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” (Jn 6,69). The word of God and Salesian Life today
Contents:
- 1. Contemplating Christ by listening to the Word of God
- 2. Listening to God’s Word as Salesians
- 2.1 Don Bosco, “priest of the Word”
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “But who do you say that I am?” (Mk 8,28). Looking at Christ through the eyes of Don Bosco
Contents:
- 1. Contemplating Jesus Christ from a salesian standpoint
- 2. Jesus Christ in the life of Don Bosco
- 2.1. The Christ of the Gospel
- 2.2. Conformed to the image of Christ
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «Whether I am near you or far away, I am always thinking of you»
Contents:
- 1. A hymn of praise
- 2. The first months of work in the General Council
- 3. The activity of doctrinal guidance
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «You are my God. My happiness lies in you alone»
Contents:
- 1. “I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you ” (Bm 1,8)
- 2. “I have promised God that to my last breath …” (MB XVIII, 258)
- 3. The malaise of consecrated life
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Pascual Chavez Villanueva – Priority of animation and main lines of action
Contents:
- Origins of and reasons behind the Project
- The need for a Project
- Priority of animation and main lines of action
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Sickness and old age in the salesian experience
Contents:
- The seasons of life
- I. Sickness
- The experience of sickness in our consecrated life
- With our eye on Don Bosco
- A new apostolic period Continue reading “Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Sickness and old age in the salesian experience”
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – «I have come to do your will». Our obedience: a sign and prophecy
Contents:
- Let us talk about it again
- 1. The First and radical Beatitude
- 2. Value of religious obedience
- 2.1. “In the head of the book it is written…”
- 2.2. Following Christ
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Beatification of Bro. Artemide Zatti: a sensational precedent
Contents:
- 1. The Missing Fragment
- 2. Don Bosco’s coadjutor Brothers
- 3. Vocational profile of Artemide Zatti
- 3.1 Meeting with Don Bosco in Patagonia
- 3.2 Salesian vocation
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – «When you pray say; Our Father….» (Mt 6,9). The Salesian a man and teacher of prayer for the young
Contents:
- 1. You ARE MY LIGHT…
- A look into our own heart
- Sincerity with God and with ourselves
- Ability for listening
- Savouring silence
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