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 – “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
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Sickness and old age in the salesian experience
Contents:
- The seasons of life
- I. Sickness
- The experience of sickness in our consecrated life
- With our eye on Don Bosco
- A new apostolic period Continue reading “Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Sickness and old age in the salesian experience”
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 – 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 – «The Father consecrates us and sends us»
Contents:
- I. A consecrated life
- 1. A pressing invitation
- 2. A key-word
- 3. The joyful experience of having received a gift
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – “He had compassion on them” (Mk 6,34). New forms of poverty, salesian mission, effectiveness
Contents:
- The new scenario of our educative commitment
- An option of the Church
- Our process of reflection
Egidio Viganò – Reading the Founder’s charism again at the present day
Contents:
- Introduction
- A lived experience
- Two fundamental convictions
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Egidio Viganò – Consecrated life at the present day
Contents:
- Introduction
- Relevance of the Congress
- Original arrangement of the themes
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Egidio Viganò – The prophetic stimulus of the European Synod
Contents:
- Introduction
- The European Bishops Synod
- Collapse of ideologies?
- Exhortation to apostolic breadth of vision
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Egidio Viganò – The Past-Pupils of Don Bosco
Contents:
- Introduction
- Article 5 of the constitutions
- The “education received”
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Samuel Komanvi Amaglo – Les jeunes au carrefour de la mission comme exercice de dialogue éducatif théologique. L’experience des Salesiens de Don Bosco au Maroc
Partendo dall’esperienza salesiana dell’accompagnamento dei giovani cristiani e musulmani nel contesto pastorale e di dialogo interreligioso del Marocco, questo contributo – in lingua francese – mette a fuoco il ruolo dei giovani nella relazione costruttiva tra missione evangelizzatrice, educazione e dialogo interreligioso, che sono sempre coesistiti nei vari contesti del mondo. Continue reading “Samuel Komanvi Amaglo – Les jeunes au carrefour de la mission comme exercice de dialogue éducatif théologique. L’experience des Salesiens de Don Bosco au Maroc”