Contents:
- 1. A Eucharistic “hour”
- The ecclesial process
- The question
- Our Eucharist
- Pastoral practice
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Sent to bring good news to the poor
Contents:
- 1. Our poverty: Freedom and detachment
- Investing in the community
- Sign of the salesian mission
- Work and temperance
- Wise administration
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – He has reconciled us to himself and has given us the ministry of Reconciliation
Contents:
- 1. Grace and mercy enfold our life
- “Mediante Christo”
- Freely given love and salesian practice
- 2. Love leads to judgement
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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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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Egidio Viganò – «Charism and prayer»
Contents:
- Introduction
- Fascination of charisms
- The individual in a praying dialogue
- The originality of christian prayer
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Egidio Viganò – The Eucharist in the apostolic spirit of Don Bosco
Contents:
- The most vital theme for measuring our spirit and activity
- Don Bosco and the Eucharist: Mass, Communion, Adoration
- The eucharistic outlook of Vatican II
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Egidio Viganò – The Marian Year
Contents:
- Introduction
- Why a Marian Year
- Dynamic ecclesial perspectives
Egidio Viganò – The renewed text of our Rule of Life
Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The turning point ot the Second Vatican Council
- 2. The four general-chapter stages
- 3. New perspectives in the rewritten text: Nature of the Constitutions
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Egidio Viganò – The salesian rector and animation
Contents:
- Rich charismatic tradition
- Full-time consecration
- Witnessing to Christ, transcendent mediator
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Egidio Viganò – ln the ever-growing splendour of the gospel
Contents:
- Our over-riding choice for Christ
- Unravelling the coils of ambiguity
- The seventies and the announcing of the Gospel
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