Contents:
- An unlorgeltable experience
- THE STRENNA for 2006
- 1. Dangers and threats facing the family at the present day
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “Come over to Macedonia and help us” (Acts 16,9). Presentation of the Northern European Region
Contents:
- 1. “Come over to Macedonia and help us” (Acts 16,9)
- 2. Beginnings of Salesian work in the Northern European Region
- 2.1 Great Britain, Ireland-Malta, Holland and Northern Belgium
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “You will be my witnesses… even to the ends of the Earth” (Acts 1, 8b). Presentation of the Italy-Middle East Region
Contents:
- Family News
- Significance of this letter
- Two important events
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “I give thanks to God each time I remember You” (Phil 1,3). Presentation of the Western European Region
Contents:
- Don Bosco in France, Spain, Portugal and Southern Belgium
- The beginnings, a successful planting of the charism
- Spectacular development
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «My dear salesians, be saints!»
Contents:
- 1. Holiness, a permanent part of our family heritage
- 1.1. Following Don Bosco
- 1.2. Our sanctification
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Beatification of Bro. Artemide Zatti: a sensational precedent
Contents:
- 1. The Missing Fragment
- 2. Don Bosco’s coadjutor Brothers
- 3. Vocational profile of Artemide Zatti
- 3.1 Meeting with Don Bosco in Patagonia
- 3.2 Salesian vocation
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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 – 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 – Letter to the Don Bosco Volunteers, to the Salesians and all groups of the Salesian Family. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Institute
Contents:
- Introduction
- The originality of the Spirit of God
- The ministry of the Rector Major
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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