Contents:
- 1. Grace and mercy enfold our life
- “Mediante Christo”
- Freely given love and salesian practice
- 2. Love leads to judgement
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 Exhortation “Vita Consacrata”. Incentives for our postcapitular Journey
Contents:
- 1. In the movement of the Church
- 2. Our reading of the Exhortation
- 3. The gift of our consecrated life
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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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 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 – Salesian spirituality for the new evangelization
Contents:
- Introduction.
- Neither the latest fashion nor a continual harping on the same point, but a genuinely new requirement.
- An indispensable source of energy for the journey of faith.
- A daunting reality.
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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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Michael Mendl – The dreams of Don Bosco
Michael Mendl presents us with his essay on the dreams of Don Bosco. His study is a corrective for those who expect to find extensive prophecies of the future in Don Bosco’s words. Nevertheless the dreams are an important element in the life and spirituality of Don Bosco.
Luigi Ricceri – Our responsibility in the light of the Acts of the XIXth General Chapter
Contents:
- 1. The new series of the “Acts of the Superior Council”
- 2. Consoling union of minds and hearts
- 3. Our responsibility in the light of the Acts of the XIXth General Chapter