Contents:
- Premise: Some significant events in the second half of 2011
- Commentary on the Strenna for 2012:
- Knowledge of Don Bosco and a commitment on behalf of the young
- Rediscovering the story of Don Bosco
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – Inculturation of the salesian charism “So though I am not a slave of any man I have made myself the slave of everyone so as to win as many as I could” (1Cor 9,19)
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 – “Successor of Don Bosco: son, disciple, apostle”. The human and spiritual profile of blessed Michael Rua. On the hundredth anniversary of his death
Contents:
- 1. Don Rua “the most faithful son of Don Bosco”
- The six mysterious word which keep coming back
- Two urgent matters: one for Don Bosco and the other for Michael
- A prophetic letter on the bedside table
- Being Don Bosco at Mirabello Monferrato
- “Being Don Bosco here at the Oratory”
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 – “But who do you say that I am?” (Mk 8,28). Looking at Christ through the eyes of Don Bosco
Contents:
- 1. Contemplating Jesus Christ from a salesian standpoint
- 2. Jesus Christ in the life of Don Bosco
- 2.1. The Christ of the Gospel
- 2.2. Conformed to the image of Christ
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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Sacra Rituum Congregatione – Sacra Rituum Congregatione, Aquen, Beatificationis et canonizationis servae Dei Mariae Dominicae Mazzarello prima antistitae Instituti Filiarum Mariae Auxiliatricis. Summarium super dubio
La Positio super virtutibus (Summarium) raccoglie la sintesi delle testimonianza al processo di beatificazione e canonizzazione di Maria Domenica Mazzarello.
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 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 – And Mary laid him in a manger
Contents:
- Introduction
- At the core of salesian “significance”
- Light from the Word of God
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John Dickson – An introduction to Don Rua’s letters to England
Michael Rua (1837-1910) was a pupil, then the lifetime collaborator and finally, the first successor of St. John Bosco as Rector Major of the Salesian Society (1888-1910). During his Rectorate the Salesians grew from 1030 members in 64 houses to 4420 confreres scattered across the globe. Don Rua’s letters to England offer the reader a glimpse of the character of their writer and of the pastoral care he took of a small group of relatively insignificant Salesians in what was very often the inhospitable atmosphere of the British empire at the height of its power.
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