Summary:
- A commemoration not to be scamped
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Luigi Ricceri – Let us look to the future with the optimism of Don Bosco
Summary:
- 1. Crisis and optimism in the Church
- 2. Optimism and crisis in the Congregation
- 3. Motives for hope
- 4. Joy, the visible sign of optimism
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Ángel Fernández Artime – “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Mt 6:10). Good christians and good upright citizens
Contents:
- Introduction.
- 1. Good christians and upright citizens in Don Bosco.
- 1.1. Good christians living with Faith in the Lord and under the guidance of the Spirit
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Egidio Viganò – In the year of family
Contents:
- lntroduction
- Challenges of the new evangelization
- Dltficulties at the present day
- The Pope’s letter to families
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Egidio Viganò – We are “Educator-Prophets”
Contents:
- lntroduction
- The prophetic dimension of consecrated life
- Leaven in the area of significance
- The contemporary aspect of Christ
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Egidio Viganò – Educating to the faith in the school
Contents:
- lntroduction
- The “oratorian root” of our School
- The scholastic commitment of the Congregation at the present day
- The problem of the relationship between “school” and “education”
- Crisis of cultural transition
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Luigi Ricceri – «Work and self-restraint»: the answer to upward social mobility
- Summary :
- The dream of Don Bosco
- Searching questions for the 70’s
- 1. Work and self-restraint, the inseparables
- 2. Work, a school and prie-dieu
- Work : a mission carried out joyfully
- When work replaces prayer
- 3. The teaching of the SGC
- 4. lnvitation to an honest assessement
- The fears of Don Bosco
- The Practical references in the Regulations
- 5. Time, an asset and a liability
- Assisting
- How to waste time
- 6.The aim of our work: evangelization
- Spare time need not be wasted time
- Conclusion.
Reference time period: 1974
L. Ricceri, «Work and self-restraint»:the answer to upward social mobility, in «Acts of The Superior Counsil of the Salesian Society» 55 (1974) 276, 3-40.
Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB
Egidio Viganò – An ecclesial message of new evangelization
Contents:
- lntroduction
- We were there at Santo Domingo
- How to understand the New Evangelization from a pastoral standpoint
- The various aspects of newness
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Egidio Viganò – An invitation to bear greater witness to our consecration
Contents:
- lntroduction: importance of the next Synod of 1994
- A difficulty
- An authoritative aide for its preparation
- The unfinished renewal
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Luigi Ricceri – A sad loss – The meetings with the Provincials – Missions in Ecuador – ln the homeland of Zeffirino Namuncurá – At the Brothers’ Meeting in Quito – Vocations: signs of recovery – Primary formation – Youth with an ideal – The children on the street – With prayor and the Salesian way – Communion-building
Summary:
- A sad loss
- The meetings with the Provincials
- Missions in Ecuador
- ln the homeland of Zeffirino Namuncurá
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Egidio Viganò – There is still good ground where the seed can fall
Contents:
- lntroduction
- 150 years since Bartholomew Garelli
- A pressing appeal of the GC23: faith and vocation
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Capitolo Generale dei Salesiani di Don Bosco – Educating the young people to the faith
I present to you the Acts of the GC23, with their rich contents for the guidance of our life and apostolic activity. In them is collected together the official documentation of the Chapter’s work: i.e. the document on educating young people to the faith; the modifications or additions concerning the Constitutions and Regulations; practical interpretations of some texts from the Rule; deliberations regarding the grouping of provinces; a practical directive for our presence in Africa; a brief chronicle of capitular events; and the “Letter to Youth” that the Assembly asked for from the Rector Major. Continue reading “Capitolo Generale dei Salesiani di Don Bosco – Educating the young people to the faith”