Contents:
- 1. ANCHORED IN THE EUCHARIST AND IN MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS
- 1.1. In the footsteps of Saint Francis of Sales
- 1.2. On the way to Heaven
Ángel Fernández Artime – “Lord, give me this water” (John 4:15). Let us cultivate the art of listening and of accompaniment
Contents:
- Presentation.
- An encounter that does not leave indifferent: “Listening”.
- A Form of Listening that is reception and personal encounter.
Ángel Fernández Artime – What kind of Salesians for the youth of today? Letter convoking the 28th General Chapter
Contents:
- CONVOCATION OF THE GC 28.
- The choice of theme.
- Other tasks.
- Fundamental aim of the theme.
- Some questions that we can ask ourselves.
Ángel Fernández Artime – “100 Years for God and for the World”. Letter of the Rector Major to the Volunteers of Don Bosco on the Centenary of the Foundation of the Institute
Contents:
- 1. A LOOK AT THE ORIGINS
- 2. AROUSED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE NOVELTY OF CONSECRATED SECULAR LIFE
Ángel Fernández Artime – We are family! Every home, a school of life and love
Contents:
- The theme of the Strenna.
- An invitation to a calm and quiet reading of the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, with a heart open to dialogue and to an encounter.
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Ángel Fernández Artime – Merciful like the Father. Jubilee Year Salesian Letter
Contents:
- The extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.
- Mercy: the key word of the Pontificate of Pope Francis.
- God rich in Mercy.
- “My heart recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender”.
- Jesus Christ, Face of the Father’s Mercy.
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Ángel Fernández Artime – With Jesus let us journey together in an adventure of the Spirit!
Contents:
- Greetings and a word of explanation.
- With Jesus!
- Let us journey together.
Ángel Fernández Artime – “So that they may have life and have it to the full” (John 10,10). Five fruits of the bicentenary
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 – “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.
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.
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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