Contents:
- What is specific and essential in the Project
- Structure of the Project
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “You who seek the Lord; look to the rock from which you were hewn” (Is 51,1). Presentation of the Interamerica Region
Contents:
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. STRUCTURE AND HISTORY OF THE REGION
- Andean Zone
- Ecuador
- Colombia: Provinces of Bogotà and Medellin
- Peru
- Bolivia
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Sara Cecilia Sierra Jaramillo – El egresado, un testigo por la experiencia vivida, en y desde una obra educativa en pastoral
La Escuela Normal Superior (ENS), es una institución formadora de maestros, ubicada en el Área Metropolitana de Medellín (Antioquia-Colombia), zona densamente poblada y con fuertes contrastes entre ricos y pobres. Estos últimos, en su gran mayoría, llegaron huyendo de la violencia o buscando mejores condiciones de vida. Esta situación ha propiciado el aumento de niños y jóvenes en situación de riesgo, a los cuales el Estado no siempre les puede garantizar el derecho a la educación con calidad. Continue reading “Sara Cecilia Sierra Jaramillo – El egresado, un testigo por la experiencia vivida, en y desde una obra educativa en pastoral”
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 – 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 – «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 – The Salesian Family is 25 years old!
Contents:
- Introduction
- A history open to the future
- The new ecclesial sensitivity
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Egidio Viganò – Reading the Founder’s charism again at the present day
Contents:
- Introduction
- A lived experience
- Two fundamental convictions
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John Rasor – The salesian brother’s spiritual identity
This study will look at how the Salesian brother’s vocation appears in official Salesian writings while Don Bosco was founding the Salesian Congregation, and at how the Congregation has theologically reflected on that vocation as part of its renewal of its Constitutions. It will then examine how this identity has been applied.
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Giovanni Bosco – Cooperators in the salesian mission
The first text (no. 272) included here is an extract from a long conference which Don Bosco gave at the opening of the Patronage de St Pierre in Nice, on 12 March 1877. After summing up the events which led to the founding of the first Salesian House in France, thanks to the involvement of a group of lay people belonging to the St Vincent de Paul Society, supported by Bishop Pietro Sola, the saint said that the work was only set up because of the fruitful cooperation between the Salesians and the Cooperators. Then, pointing out the principal purpose of the Institution (“the good of humanity and the salvation of souls”), he concluded with the reflection that we offer here, focused entirely on practical charity, works of mercy, essential features of true Christian discipleship and on the eternal reward that comes from it (cf. Mt 25:34-35).
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Giovanni Bosco – Spiritual formation of the young through preaching, “goodnights” and dream accounts
In Don Bosco’s educational system preaching has special importance, both that which is bound up with the liturgical or catechetical context, and that of the informal, familiar kind. The saint often addressed the community of young people with brief and fervent talks aimed at stirring up their emotions, nurturing their minds, encouraging good resolutions and devout sentiments, and looking ahead to stimulating horizons.