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 – Bringing the Gospel to the young. Strenna 2010. Centenary of the death of Don Michael Rua
Contents:
Premiss: Some significant events in the second half of 2009
Commentary on the Strenna 2010:
- Introduction: the motives behind the Strenna
- Being disciples and apostles: our vocation
- The task of the disciples is to hear the “desire to see Jesus”
- First disciples, then apostles
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «He summoned those He wanted and they came to Him» (Mk 3,13). On the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Salesian Congregation
Contents:
- 1. “AN ACT OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE”
- 1.1. A start is made in the name of Our Lady
- 1.2 Days of waiting
- 1.3 The boys from the ‘black belt’
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Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me” (1Cor 11,24). Making the Eucharist in order to become Eucharist
Contents:
- 1. ‘MAKING THE EUCHARIST’ TODAY
- 1.1 The Eucharist in the recent life of the Church
- 1.2 The Eucharist in the present state of the Congregation
- 1.3 The Eucharist in the life of the confreres
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Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “You are the salt of the earth… you are the light of the world” (Mt 5,13-14) Presentation of the East Asia – Oceania Region
Contents:
- 1. Brief general presentation of the Region
- Social situation
- Cultural context
- Presence of the Catholic Church
- Consecrated life
- 2. How Don Bosco arrived and his charism has grown
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Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “Da mihi animas, cetera tolle”. Charismatic identity and apostolic zeal. Starting again from Don Bosco to reawaken the heart of every Salesian
Contents:
- 1. CONVOCATION OF THE GC26
- 1.1 Reasons for choice of the theme
- 1.2 Steps that led to the choosing of the theme
- 1.3 Fundamental purpose of the theme
- 1.4 Other tasks
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Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her» (Eph. 5,25). Commentary on the Strenna 2005
Contents:
- The reason
- Rejuvenating the Church: a gift and a task
- A testimony, a model, an image
Jesu Pudumai Doss – Accompagnamento dei giovani: diritti nella Chiesa
«Prendersi cura dei giovani non è un compito facoltativo per la Chiesa, ma parte sostanziale della sua vocazione e della sua missione nella storia» (n. 1). Così si leggeva nell’Instrumentum laboris per la XV Assemblea Generale Ordinaria del Sinodo dei Vescovi su I giovani, la fede e il discernimento vocazionale. Continue reading “Jesu Pudumai Doss – Accompagnamento dei giovani: diritti nella Chiesa”
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – «Now is the acceptable time»
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 – 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 – «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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