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 – He has reconciled us to himself and has given us the ministry of Reconciliation
Contents:
- 1. Grace and mercy enfold our life
- “Mediante Christo”
- Freely given love and salesian practice
- 2. Love leads to judgement
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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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 – “For you I study…” (C 14). Satisfactory preparation of the confreres and the quality of our educative work
Contents:
- 1. A theme which crops up repeatedly
- 2. “For you I study”: an indispensable element of the mission to the young
- 3. Why a new insistence at the present day
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
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 – Convocation of 24th General Chapter
Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Official convocation
- 2. The choice of the theme
- 3. A rapid glance at salesian tradition
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Egidio Viganò – The Synod on Consecrated Life
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Synodal Assembly with most members
- The ecclesial aspect in the formulation of the theme
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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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