Contents:
- An unlorgeltable experience
- THE STRENNA for 2006
- 1. Dangers and threats facing the family at the present day
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “And preach as you go, saying ‘the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand’, (Mt 10,7) Presentation of the America South-Cone Region
Contents:
- 1. CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS SITUATION ATTHE PRESENT DAY
- 2. THE BEGINNINGS OF SALESIAN WORK
- 2.1 Argentina
- In Patagonia
- 2.2 Uruguay
- 2.1 Argentina
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 – “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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