Contents:
- A year of grace with so many fruits.
- Because, almost without realising it, the Congregation is becoming known at greater depth.
Ángel Fernández Artime – Like Don Bosco, with the young, for the young! Bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco
Contents:
- A beautiful spiritual inheritance.
- The Strenna, an expresston of unity for the whole of our Salesian Family.
- Like Don Bosco: with his pastoral heart and his option for education, caught up in God’s plan.
Ángel Fernández Artime – “Belonging more to God more to the confreres, more to the young”
Contents:
- In the steps of my predecessors.
- A present time to belived in faith, with hope, with realism and walking together.
- Belonging more to God.
- Let us bring to life the ‘Utopia’ fraternity according to the Gospel.
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «Da mihi animas, cetera tolle». Let us draw upon the spiritual experience of Don Bosco, in order to walk in holiness according to our specific vocation. «The glory of God and the salvation of souls». Third year of preparation for the Bicentenary of his birth
Contents:
- Premise: A reflection on the inescapable task of evangelisation, in reference to the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium of Pope Francis.
- Commentary on the Strenna for 2014.
- Features of Don Bosco’s spirituality.
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – Vocation and formation: gift and task
Contents:
- Vocational consistency and fidelity, challenges for vocation.
- Motivations.
- Anthropological opportunities and challenges.
- Authenticity.
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Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “Like Don Bosco the educator, we offer young people the Gospel of joy through a pedagogy of kindness”. Second year of preparation for the Bicentenary of his birth
Contents:
- Premise: The Synod on “new evangelisation for the transmission of the faith”: reflections of the Rector Major who took part in this important event of the Church.
- Commentary on the Strenna 2013. Rediscovering the Preventive System.
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- Relaunching the “upright citizen” and the “good Christian”.
- Returning to the young better prepared.
- An education of the heart.
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «Witnesses to the radical approach of the Gospel». Called to live in fidelity Don Bosco’s apostolic project. “Work and temperance”
Contents:
- CONVOCATION OF THE GC27.
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- The steps taken in deciding on the theme.
- Fundamental purpose of the theme.
- Fruits to be hoped for from the implementation of the theme.
- Other tasks.
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «Let us make the young our life’s mission by coming to know and imitate Don Bosco». First year of preparation for the Bicentenary of his birth
Contents:
- Premise: Some significant events in the second half of 2011
- Commentary on the Strenna for 2012:
- Knowledge of Don Bosco and a commitment on behalf of the young
- Rediscovering the story of Don Bosco
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – Inculturation of the salesian charism “So though I am not a slave of any man I have made myself the slave of everyone so as to win as many as I could” (1Cor 9,19)
Contents:
- “The Law of all evangelisation”
- Changing cultural paradigms
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- Globalisation
- Interreligious dialogue
- The youth situation
- The digital world, a continent to be leavened
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «Come and see» (Jn 1,39) The need for vocation ministry
Contents:
- Premiss: Some significant events in the second half of 2010
- Commentary on the Strenna 2011:
- 1. Returning to Don Bosco
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – Spirituality and mission. Disciples and apostles of the Risen Lord
Contents:
- Starting point
- 1. Paschal origin of the mission
- 2. The existential dynamism of the mission