Contents:
- Greetings and a word of explanation.
- With Jesus!
- Let us journey together.
Ángel Fernández Artime – “So that they may have life and have it to the full” (John 10,10). Five fruits of the bicentenary
Contents:
- A year of grace with so many fruits.
- Because, almost without realising it, the Congregation is becoming known at greater depth.
Ángel Fernández Artime – “Belonging more to God more to the confreres, more to the young”
Contents:
- In the steps of my predecessors.
- A present time to belived in faith, with hope, with realism and walking together.
- Belonging more to God.
- Let us bring to life the ‘Utopia’ fraternity according to the Gospel.
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «Da mihi animas, cetera tolle». Let us draw upon the spiritual experience of Don Bosco, in order to walk in holiness according to our specific vocation. «The glory of God and the salvation of souls». Third year of preparation for the Bicentenary of his birth
Contents:
- Premise: A reflection on the inescapable task of evangelisation, in reference to the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium of Pope Francis.
- Commentary on the Strenna for 2014.
- Features of Don Bosco’s spirituality.
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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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – «Now is the acceptable time»
Contents:
- 1. VOCATIONS: A POINT THAT GIVES US FOOD FOR THOUGHT
- A propitious moment
- In harmony with the Church
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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 – «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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Egidio Viganò – “Be on the watch with your robes hitched up and your lamps alight”
Contents:
- “Religious life and discipline”
- Aversion to the concept of “discipline”
- Spiritual significance of the “Rule of life”
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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