Contents:
- 1. VOCATIONS: A POINT THAT GIVES US FOOD FOR THOUGHT
- A propitious moment
- In harmony with the Church
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – «This is my body, which is given for you»
Contents:
- 1. A Eucharistic “hour”
- The ecclesial process
- The question
- Our Eucharist
- Pastoral practice
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Towards the 25th General Chapter
Contents:
- 1. Convocation
- The hour of the GC25
- Our journey
- 2. Tjheme of the GC25
- The salesian community
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Communication in the Salesian Mission «They were astonished beyond measure! He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak»
Contents:
- 1. Let us get on the air
- …with the church
- …and with the charism
- Interpersonal communication
- Social communication
- 2. “He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak” Continue reading “Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Communication in the Salesian Mission «They were astonished beyond measure! He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak»”
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Sanctity and Martyrdom at the dawn of the third millennium
Contents:
- Almost a surprise beatification
- Holiness and martyrdom in the Holy Year
- The martyrology of the 20th Century
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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 – Sent to bring good news to the poor
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 – «A love without limits for God and the young»
Contents:
- 1. Chastity for the Kingdom. What we have professed
- The cultural climate
- The inspiring certainty: a love which proclaims the Risen One and awaits him
- 2. Chastity and the salesian charism
- In the wake of a tradition
- At the service of educative love
- A sign of complete self-donation
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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 – «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 – 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