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1 4 | manner (there were about 1,000 novices); salesian works,
2 Pre | For you I study..." (C 14)~Satisfactory preparation
3 4 | educative mission.~In the years 1905-1906 Don Rua wanted to organize
4 4 | during the four years from 1929 to 1932 no new foundations
5 4 | four years from 1929 to 1932 no new foundations will
6 4 | written by Fr Ricceri in 1966, in the official presentation
7 Pre | work.~ ~Rome, 15 September 1997~Memorial of Our Lady of
8 2 | 2. "For you I study": an indispensable
9 8, 1| is preparing to celebrate 25 years of life as a University,
10 8, 1| University, in addition to the 30 no less important years
11 8, 1| the Salesians there are 390 religious, 150 diocesan
12 4 | 4. Priority for the qualification
13 5 | the of confreres is below 40 years and in others it is
14 8, 1| from 600 in 1973 to about 1,400 today. The number of requests
15 5 | 5. The principal investment
16 8, 1| 150 diocesan students, and 590 lay people from every continent.~
17 6 | 6. Some options for investing
18 5 | and in others it is over 60; in some zones pastoral
19 8, 1| students has increased from 600 in 1973 to about 1,400 today.
20 7 | 7. Persons~~
21 8 | 8. Structures~The need for
22 9 | 9. Conclusion~The pursuit
23 3, 5| commitments which cannot be abandoned.~We think of the centres
24 | above
25 3, 2| that he may have life in abundance, and with the salvation
26 7, 4| salesian material has become abundant: there is history which
27 1 | grace which the Father pours abundantly into hearts, in the Cross
28 7, 4| reflection and study". The accent is on awareness. The initial
29 4 | Today society will not accept into its structures utility
30 4 | some concrete commitments, accepting the consequent limitations
31 1 | insufficient unless they are accompanied by the knowledge and techniques
32 8, 2| not plans for life and the accompaniment of growth.~From the General
33 8, 3| in creating a mentality, accompany young people and adults
34 8, 2| such initiatives has been accomplished, the moment comes to confront
35 7, 2| the working model for the accomplishment of our mission. On the other
36 3, 3| defence of the faith and to account for the hope that is in
37 1 | extent of the youth area, the accumulation of expectations, the prompt
38 7, 2| emergency to another; we become accustomed to an excessively individual
39 8 | methods which lead to ways for achieving the objectives, of using
40 7, 4| some particular aspects acquire priority – in the first
41 2 | was the desire and patient acquisition of "wisdom" ("Sapientiam
42 3, 1| The manner of thinking and acting of those who follow Christ
43 2 | and places which foster active solitude, recollection and
44 7, 2| we want to avoid stress, activism and superficiality, we must
45 7, 4| then we want to "verify and adapt intellectual formation (
46 7, 1| spirituality. But it needs those adaptations which today apply to work,
47 7, 1| requalification". And all this adds up to telling us that there
48 1 | serene maturity and facing up adequately to the tasks of our mission,
49 7, 3| year by year, and a wise administration of resources. The GC23 asked
50 8, 2| attention to cultural level, administrative management and pastoral
51 7, 1| work.~In our Founder we admire his constant balance between
52 8, 1| The number of requests for admission have never fallen off; indeed
53 7, 1| Sometimes the lifestyle we adopt and our rhythm of activity
54 1 | frontier contexts of an advanced social, educative and pastoral
55 8, 1| arrangement that would be more advantageous".~~
56 4 | wrote Don Rua, " to our own affairs, and to this effect we place
57 2 | context of cordiality and affection for his boys, in an "exchange
58 8, 3| functioning of the "curatorium", affiliation or aggregation to our own
59 8, 1| one of the first.~We must affirm once again its irreplaceable
60 1 | clear that for us, as was affirmed by the GC23, spiritual renewal,
61 7, 4| problems which more greatly afflict the human conscience, and
62 | against
63 8, 3| curatorium", affiliation or aggregation to our own Pontifical University,
64 7, 4| repeat what I said some time ago to the community of our
65 7, 3| and so have established agreements for inter-provincial collaboration
66 3 | is stated: "The formation aims at rendering the individuals
67 1 | important to us to keep alive in every confrere an intention
68 2 | retreat, certain pauses which allowed him greater concentration,
69 3, 3| approach to culture which allows for the updating of contents
70 3, 3| from the field of education altogether. We notice this risk particularly
71 3, 1| meaning to what is still ambiguous, and oppose what is harmful
72 4 | of encouraging selfish or ambitious desires to study for one’
73 8, 2| opportunity of a higher education amid the middle and poorer classes
74 7, 2| against a background of ample communication. In both cases
75 7, 4| of the Congregation and amply sustained by the most recent
76 7, 3| govern by forming those who animate and direct, we orientate
77 4 | decision he was about to announce, "we propose two items:~
78 3, 1| have given these needs an answer which has become an innovative
79 7, 1| tear and for controlling anxiety, for bearing witness to
80 | Anyone
81 | anything
82 8, 1| have responded to recent appeals.~The service of the UPS
83 7, 1| tibi"~The mystique of work appears as one of our characteristics:
84 8, 1| salesian charism and cultural applications, and in this sense fulfils
85 7, 4| For the Salesian – and it applies not only to the young confreres –
86 2 | efficacy. It is a question of applying the whole of one’s being
87 8, 2| cultural bodies, and the appropriate application of the preventive
88 4 | therefore decided, with the full approval of the Superior Chapter,
89 2 | expressions according to personal aptitudes and gifts, but will always
90 7, 3| chronicle, in the custody of archives, in the preservation of
91 1 | to speak up in the modern areopagi and proclaim Jesus Christ
92 3, 4| demands for qualifications arise therefore from the roles
93 7, 1| to the ever new demands arising from the situation of the
94 1 | of his own vocation, to arouse the communities to the creation
95 3, 4| organizing structures and arranging means, neglecting the communal
96 7, 1| suggestions from which we have to arrive at a single objective. It
97 2 | salesian spirit there is an article which characterizes our
98 7, 1| and fresh. And in it the ascetical program: work and temperance
99 2 | formation and as a path of asceticism which is extraordinarily
100 4 | the most noble of other aspirations, the moral and intellectual
101 2 | talents and health". And the assertion is immediately illustrated
102 7, 2| work and the tasks in it assigned to the confreres, linkage
103 7, 3| own restricted setting. Assigning qualified confreres to specific
104 7, 2| An assignment for communities: foster
105 8, 1| services to the Church, it assists widely varying sectors of
106 2 | is a theme difficult to associate with the tireless activity
107 7, 2| results in respect of the assumption of new demands; there has
108 3, 3| vobis, which give us the assurance of being on the Church’s
109 3, 2| dialogue with others in an atmosphere of freedom. On the other
110 1 | overall ‘quality’ to be attained.~Good will and generous
111 3, 3| disqualifying ourselves from attaining the purpose of our service.~
112 6 | unless at the same time we attend to the quality of daily
113 7, 1| to individual confreres: "Attende tibi"~The mystique of work
114 8, 2| of our Universities, an attitude of openness and relationship
115 2 | also the enlightening role attributed to faith and reason.~Expressed
116 Pre | My dear Confreres,~Last August we experienced together
117 5 | others reshaping, in some the average age of the of confreres
118 7, 2| today that if we want to avoid stress, activism and superficiality,
119 Pre | with the one I have brought back from Cuba, where I recently
120 7, 2| we live today against a background of ample communication.
121 7, 4| overcoming of linguistic barriers and creating possibilities
122 8, 2| spirituality on which it is based. In a word: a requirement
123 5 | educative mission and make us bearers of a lived and communicated
124 7, 1| controlling anxiety, for bearing witness to and sharing the
125 7, 4| which salesian literature bears witness.~In this context
126 2 | study and thought does not befit a Salesian.~And yet I would
127 7, 2| the works of the Province began and have developed.~~
128 4 | process has been already begun.~I know that it is not easy
129 7, 4| taking refuge in models of behaviour and forms of expression
130 7, 4| forms of expression that belong to the past. In such a case
131 7, 3| gifts the Lord sends to our beloved Congregation. Choose with
132 | below
133 5 | already that it will reap the benefits in due time. But it would
134 7, 2| demands; there has been a big increase in moments of exchange
135 2 | series of elements in the biography of our Father leads us to
136 7, 2| as the guidelines of the Bishops and especially of the Pope,
137 4 | up to this reputation… A bit of practice is no longer
138 7, 1| apostolic conviction is a blend of pastoral charity with
139 2 | activity and reflection were blended together by the grace of
140 8, 2| relationship with other cultural bodies, and the appropriate application
141 8, 1| consistency of the academic body. Participation of the laity
142 1 | us of this with the rapid bombardment of advertising.~It is the
143 7, 2| information have multiplied (Books, reviews, CD, internet).
144 2 | cordiality and affection for his boys, in an "exchange of gifts",
145 5 | recalled them to put the brake on missionary thrust or
146 4 | confreres; rather than a harmful break, it will mark a true progress
147 3, 4| guidance is the cause of the breakdown.~~
148 5 | cannot be the result of brief periods, restricted by the
149 3 | communities.~Let us comment briefly on each of these motives.~~
150 4 | for the Provinces; it will bring tranquility to the houses
151 8, 2| cultural pastoral work aimed at bringing about changes in the economic
152 3, 3| For the salvation of their brothers and sisters they should
153 1 | on a pilgrimage of faith, building up a broader solidarity,
154 3, 4| evangelizing effects, between buildings and educational objectives;
155 3, 2| the world which is being built so that its projects may
156 Pre | For you I study..." (C 14)~Satisfactory preparation
157 5 | six-year period or by limited calculations. Continued governmental
158 9 | him at the moment of his calling, in response to his question
159 3, 3| then all the more should candidates for the priesthood and priests
160 7, 4| quotients. We know that all capacities, and in particular those
161 5 | would be sad to lose the "capital" of qualifications thus
162 4 | there is to it. Consider carefully your houses one by one,
163 9 | how he was to succeed in carrying out such a mission. To reach
164 8, 2| orientation in line with their Catholic character and their educative
165 3, 4| persons, priests and laity, Catholics and members of other religions,
166 4 | difficulties that would be caused by the decision he was about
167 7, 2| multiplied (Books, reviews, CD, internet). But it has a
168 8, 1| University is preparing to celebrate 25 years of life as a University,
169 3, 3| formation to prayer and celebration, and orientation to the
170 1 | qualifying community life, centering our projects and interventions
171 3, 3| the hope that is in us (cf. 1 Pet 3,15), then all the
172 2 | evident that it is not by mere chance that ‘study’ has found a
173 7, 2| it by the community has changed. Personal sources of information
174 3, 3| a context like this, the changeless Gospel of Christ and to
175 7, 1| always ask ourselves by what channels our thoughts and sensitivity
176 7, 2| and, as in the case of the chapel, also a symbolic value in
177 7, 2| the documents of General Chapters and letters of the Rector
178 7, 1| work appears as one of our characteristics: everywhere to some extent
179 2 | there is an article which characterizes our kind of pastoral charity. "
180 9 | particular orientation with the charisma of predilection for the
181 2 | line with the particular charisms. The experience of God has
182 7, 1| can have little to do with charitable work for the benefit of
183 4 | being given to decisive choices for a change of practice,
184 7, 3| our beloved Congregation. Choose with wise care the personnel
185 7, 3| attention shown in keeping the chronicle, in the custody of archives,
186 7, 2| duty in the first place to circulate and exploit some particular
187 8, 2| followed up, coordinated and clarified. It will be necessary to
188 7, 4| to face competently, with clarity and deep reasoning, the
189 8, 2| amid the middle and poorer classes and fill the cultural gaps
190 7, 2| thought of the Church and the classics of Christian reflection.
191 4 | intellectual formation of our clerics". "In practice", he went
192 5 | what we proclaim in the climate of the new evangelization.~
193 6 | investing in quality~In my closing address to the GC24 I specified
194 8, 1| availability of confreres to be co-opted and transferred to Rome.
195 3, 2| interpret new languages and codes of meaning.~The perspective
196 3, 1| discernment, creativity and coherence as to when and where certain
197 8, 3| confreres, and in others collaborate in creating a mentality,
198 8, 1| derived from experience combined with the choice and organization
199 Pre | look forward peacefully to coming developments which seem
200 3 | educative communities.~Let us comment briefly on each of these
201 3, 2| reality.~Anyone wishing to commit himself to the new evangelization
202 2 | every means at his disposal; committing himself to the diffusion
203 Pre | without the possibilities now commonly available for communicating
204 5 | us bearers of a lived and communicated spirituality; how to enable
205 7, 1| constitute a school which communicates a culture foreign to us,
206 8, 1| inculturation, the fostering of communion and attention to the different
207 3, 5| prepared personnel. When we compare the requests with those
208 2 | time" for reflection or comparison; there is the risk that
209 2 | share his ideas, to make comparisons, to dialogue with people
210 7, 4| This includes contents and competences which regard religious and
211 7, 4| be in a position to face competently, with clarity and deep reasoning,
212 7, 1| reflection seem to be in competition, especially when a ruthless
213 2 | deal of personal work in compiling and editing.~"For you I
214 7, 4| dangerous gaps and lack of completeness. ~The need for a solid basic
215 7, 4| conscious living, without any complexes or cutting down, his own
216 3, 3| seems indispensable as a component of spirituality. On this
217 2 | which allowed him greater concentration, but also his desk-work
218 7, 1| broader knowledge of what concerns the Christian mystery and
219 5 | animating nucleus. We have condensed this commitment into the
220 2 | getting lost or becoming conditioned, careful to evaluate the
221 2 | which Pope Paul VI in 1973 conferred on the Salesian Pontifical
222 3, 2| yesterday, today and always is a confession of faith, not just a slogan;
223 3, 2| intelligent and positive confrontation with the new phenomena,
224 7, 1| our spiritual experience, confuse our image in the minds of
225 1 | qualification must not be confused with an exaggerated search
226 5 | how to set up an action at Congregational level so that it would be
227 8, 3| with other institutions (Congregations, diocese, etc.), and also
228 7, 3| already spoken of. ~In this connection we have already taken certain
229 3, 3| ministerial tasks. Direction of consciences, the Christian animation
230 1 | evangelization: the ability to live consciously the Christian faith, to
231 7, 4| of the Church, also as a consequence of the insufficient and
232 8, 2| this sector, which presents considerable challenges from an institutional
233 3, 5| numbers and leaving aside considerations of age, health and commitments
234 5 | the perspective we are now considering. Some areas are expanding
235 7, 3| study centres there must be consistence and continuity in the teaching
236 7, 3| particularly to those which have a consistent number of vocations. They
237 4 | perspective therefore is to consolidate…, dedicating a special period
238 3, 3| complete knowledge and more consolidated practice. Weak professional
239 4 | Vocations were increasing in a consoling manner (there were about
240 2 | whose communities are always constituted as designs of spiritual
241 3 | salesian spirit and mission constitutes for the SDB community a
242 2 | In the chapter of the Constitutions dealing with the salesian
243 7, 1| sensitivity are fed; how we construct and illustrate in ourselves
244 8, 1| at present it has to be contained and regulated, in line with
245 2 | intuitions, the contributions of contemporaries and original syntheses.
246 3, 3| followed up by revision and continual extension, and a more professional
247 6 | extensive, new information is continually fed in, while the mentality
248 5 | Congregation is something continuous in which at certain times
249 7, 1| one which is frequently contrary to our own "culture of reference".
250 Pre | us think.~This image is contrasted in my mind's eye with the
251 7, 1| preventing wear and tear and for controlling anxiety, for bearing witness
252 7, 1| initiative, and in this way conveniently renew his own plan of life.
253 5 | will have to be taken up in convergent form by the different levels
254 8, 2| needs to be followed up, coordinated and clarified. It will be
255 3, 2| understand such a world copies the way of the incarnation
256 2 | Expressed in a context of cordiality and affection for his boys,
257 7, 4| restore it to levels which correspond to the present day. In fact, "
258 2 | gave rise to voluminous correspondence, ideas for new projects
259 8, 1| periodically verified, to which corresponds the numerical and qualitative
260 7, 3| contexts and in certain countries which have recently recovered
261 2 | and the situation of the Country, without getting lost or
262 1 | expressing the mission in courageous projects and the animation
263 4 | works and cutting down the course of philosophy and theology.~"
264 8, 1| and organization of the courses. For us therefore it is
265 7, 3| confreres and with a program covering several years. Others have
266 8, 2| from the mystery of God the Creator, the Saviour of mankind,
267 3, 3| of Christ and to make it credible to the legitimate demands
268 7, 3| however, not only solve the crises but sow for the future.
269 1 | 1. A theme which crops up repeatedly~Every time
270 1 | abundantly into hearts, in the Cross which is the sign of life
271 2 | love of study had in the crowning formation of the three years
272 Pre | I have brought back from Cuba, where I recently visited
273 7, 1| physically drained but he cultivated that wise vision, that understanding
274 7, 1| greater competence"; he cultivates "the ability to learn from
275 7, 1| give ourselves time for cultivating our plan of life, for savouring
276 4 | will serve for a better cultivation of vocations and prepare
277 7, 3| in different contexts and cultures, in ordinary times and in
278 8, 3| regular functioning of the "curatorium", affiliation or aggregation
279 7, 4| going astray in the face of currents of thought, or of taking
280 7, 4| philosophical and theological curriculum. The very situation of the
281 7, 3| keeping the chronicle, in the custody of archives, in the preservation
282 3, 5| studies in which every undue cutback is going to have its repercussions
283 7, 4| practicable leaves us exposed to dangerous gaps and lack of completeness. ~
284 7, 3| consequently there are also some dark spots. It is therefore proper
285 3, 4| must be kept always up to date and that time be set aside
286 5 | periods, restricted by the deadline of the end of a six-year
287 2 | chapter of the Constitutions dealing with the salesian spirit
288 4 | 1928: "I have therefore decided, with the full approval
289 7, 3| wanted to make concrete by deciding to: "Ask the provinces for
290 4 | that would be caused by the decision he was about to announce, "
291 7, 4| Christ. "On many sides", declared the Instrumentum Laboris
292 7, 4| formation. "It is necessary", declares the Apostolic Exhortation
293 4 | Congregation I ended the part dedicated to the "Preparation of the
294 4 | therefore is to consolidate…, dedicating a special period to the
295 2 | of "wisdom" ("Sapientiam dedit illi…"), indicated in his
296 1 | greater extent, entering more deeply into the Gospel, qualifying
297 7, 4| of the insufficient and defective basic education of students
298 3, 3| to be prepared to make a defence of the faith and to account
299 5 | highlight the need to make definite options, to establish priorities,
300 7, 4| can only receive full and definitive reply in the Gospel of Jesus
301 3, 3| acquired to a sufficient degree and then followed up by
302 4 | a question of collecting degrees or specializing for its
303 8, 3| cannot therefore simply "delegate" the intellectual formation
304 3 | society for which we are delineating the educative and pastoral
305 3, 3| recognized qualifications are demanded at the present day also
306 7, 1| direction to communities is a demanding task which is far from easy.
307 1 | suggestions. Together they depict the physiognomy of our holiness
308 8, 1| offered in a unique synthesis derived from experience combined
309 3, 3| of contents and methods designed for other areas. Inculturation
310 2 | are always constituted as designs of spiritual life, full
311 4 | encouraging selfish or ambitious desires to study for one’s own satisfaction
312 2 | concentration, but also his desk-work which gave rise to voluminous
313 7, 3| have committed themselves despite difficulties of finance
314 3, 4| roles the Salesians are destined to play in this new model
315 5 | a broad scale will still determine our way of working. A wise
316 7, 4| qualification we are speaking of is determined by "for you I study"; i.e.
317 7, 2| community is therefore a determining factor, as also that of
318 2 | attitudes which converge without detriment on the central experience
319 7, 2| Province began and have developed.~~
320 7, 4| during initial formation devote a great deal of time to
321 7, 1| to work, in which manual dexterity and physical force are only
322 5 | much institutionalized and dictated from outside, and others
323 7, 4| people according to the differences in the way their life is
324 2 | dialogue with people of widely differing experiences and competence,
325 2 | committing himself to the diffusion of sacred history, of the
326 3, 3| priesthood and priests have diligent care of the quality of their
327 3, 3| the educative project; it diminishes the impact of our work and,
328 8, 1| there are 390 religious, 150 diocesan students, and 590 lay people
329 8, 3| institutions (Congregations, diocese, etc.), and also give attention
330 7, 3| been given attention by directors. In our case, an action
331 3, 3| university world, and areas of "disadvantaged youth".~Then too in the
332 7, 1| form in himself an open and discerning mentality and a spirit of
333 1 | above all is that we be disciples of Christ to a greater extent,
334 3, 3| scientific and technological discoveries. It strongly demands a high
335 4 | we were on the verge of discovering new horizons and pastoral
336 3, 3| participation in public discussions on many questions.~Pastoral
337 2 | that the latter will become disjoined from the pastoral objectives
338 7, 1| for influencing because of dispersion and multiplicity of work.~
339 2 | totality of the life put at the disposition of the young. But it is
340 1 | than by the quantitative disproportion between the work and the
341 3, 3| educative work which risks disqualifying ourselves from attaining
342 3, 1| mass media, its image is distorted to the extent of rendering
343 7, 1| important and even useless and distracting, and giving oneself with
344 4 | cultural stagnation, mental distractions, and improvisation.~It is
345 3, 3| present day also by the diversification and complexity of educative
346 7, 4| intellectual formation pays no dividends in any context, and rushed
347 3, 3| deeper knowledge of the divine mysteries’. The present
348 3, 4| In some cases an evident division arises between equipment
349 7, 4| must also be always a good "doctor", with a sound knowledge
350 7, 4| synthetic and systematic doctrinal foundation, which can be
351 7, 3| preservation of significant documentation.~~
352 2 | indispensable part of our donation to the young, of our fatherly
353 7, 1| Don Bosco was physically drained but he cultivated that wise
354 5 | six-year period was being drawn up, the General Council
355 2 | indicated in his first dream as a characteristic of his
356 3, 4| have been stated or perhaps dreamed.~The demands for qualifications
357 2 | followed up its functioning and drew up intelligent and practical
358 7, 3| field. Every day we are driven to looking for confreres
359 7, 2| the confreres. His is the duty in the first place to circulate
360 8 | ecclesial subjects.~I will dwell on some of these by way
361 9 | fraternal greetings.~Juan E. Vecchi~Major Rector~ ~
362 8, 2| bringing about changes in the economic and social area, in attitudes
363 3, 3| become practically universal: ecumenism, inter-religious dialogue
364 2 | personal work in compiling and editing.~"For you I study" recalls
365 3, 4| instruments and evangelizing effects, between buildings and educational
366 4 | under the guidance of Fr Egidio Viganò, emphasized the same
367 3, 2| concepts of life are being elaborated, often without any reference
368 2 | recalls the patient effort of elaborating an "original educative system"
369 2 | study": an indispensable element of the mission to the young~
370 | else
371 2 | of the conditions for the embodiment of that love of the young
372 1 | solidarity, the efficacious embracing of poverty, effective expression
373 5 | fundamental criterion which emerged was to strengthen the "quality"
374 1 | force of leaven.~Quality emerges as a necessary requirement
375 2 | collective life (the press, emigration, new laws, the spreading
376 2 | emphasis of words and actions emphasizes the totality of the life
377 1 | different parts of the world has enabled me to see at first hand
378 7, 1| ourselves time also for enabling ourselves to carry out our
379 8, 3| spirituality.~Our Regulations encourage Provinces which are able
380 7, 2| initiative should also be encouraged of having in the Province
381 4 | State of the Congregation I ended the part dedicated to the "
382 2 | recommendation does no more than endorse a tradition of Institutes
383 3, 3| that "the best can be the enemy of the good" ("better a
384 7, 4| foundation, which can be enlarged and modified, should inculcate
385 4 | or foundations, nor the enlargement of those now existing. We
386 2 | kindness with the ability to enlighten, teach and guide; the frequent
387 3, 3| ability for discernment, enlightenment and exposition.~A solid
388 1 | salvation, and in the Word which enlightens us. But as individuals and
389 7, 1| With regard to cultural enrichment, in the sense given to it
390 8 | validity or relevance, that can enter into a wider cultural or
391 4 | mihi animas", urge us to be enterprising. And that must continue.
392 7, 3| needs and commitments of the entire Congregation. To the examples
393 9 | It is the gift and task entrusted to him at the moment of
394 8, 2| They cannot be without an EPC, and in the first place
395 3, 2| millennium. At a time of epoch-making transformation in which
396 3, 1| frequently not understood in its essence; it is often praised for
397 7, 2| cultural standpoint, by establishing conditions for offering
398 7, 2| thought which led to the establishment of the day of the community,
399 1 | common, such as pluralism, an ethically neutral society, secularization,
400 8, 2| life, in the elaboration of ethics, in the creation of new
401 8 | faithful to the salesian ethos of the project. The risk
402 2 | conditioned, careful to evaluate the whole picture from the
403 7, 4| down by the GC24.~Guided by evaluations of this kind, we have expressed
404 3, 4| between instruments and evangelizing effects, between buildings
405 2 | expressed in the discernment of events, in the worth in God’s eyes
406 7, 4| option, and helps to an evermore mature and conscious living,
407 | everything
408 7, 3| recovered their freedom. It is evidently not sufficient to have created
409 7, 1| cultural and religious context evince particular difficulties
410 6 | particular attention. Culture evolves rapidly, knowledge becomes
411 1 | not be confused with an exaggerated search for efficiency. Our
412 1 | spoken of in terms of an ‘excellence’ to be sought, a ‘competence’
413 | except
414 8, 2| itself, but which can be exceptionally fruitful for the evangelization
415 8, 1| the GC24: "With some small exceptions, often repeated excessively
416 3, 3| worse, could lead to our exclusion from the field of education
417 3, 4| Salesians work: from the exclusive responsibility of the religious
418 7, 4| consecration helps to translate the exertions of knowledge and action
419 4 | rapid, and by forestalling exhaustion they prepare for others
420 8, 2| fill the cultural gaps that existed. Nowadays one can no longer
421 4 | enlargement of those now existing. We cannot do it, and that
422 5 | considering. Some areas are expanding and others reshaping, in
423 3, 3| Church’s wavelength. "‘If we expect every Christian – the Synod
424 1 | area, the accumulation of expectations, the prompt response young
425 Pre | Confreres,~Last August we experienced together the XII World Youth
426 3, 5| which always have need of experts in vocational processes
427 7, 4| viceversa. On the other hand, explicit salesian material has become
428 5 | all of them the maximum exploitation of human resources is an
429 7, 1| popular environments and exploits the formative efficacy of
430 3, 3| also true that we cannot expose ourselves to a generalized
431 3, 3| discernment, enlightenment and exposition.~A solid cultural and professional
432 8, 1| formative potential". It expresses at the highest level the
433 5 | given to initiatives which extend beyond provincial horizons
434 4 | with the beginning and extending of ongoing formation and
435 8 | paradigms, but the application extends to all the others.~~
436 7, 2| for lay collaborators and externs, our specific heritage of
437 2 | path of asceticism which is extraordinarily timely, in the face of present-day
438 Pre | contrasted in my mind's eye with the one I have brought
439 4 | of the young confreres.~Faced by such a situation, and
440 7, 2| therefore a determining factor, as also that of the provincial
441 5 | acquired with sacrifice through failing to exploit the investment
442 7, 4| original syntheses. We must not fall into genericism. Practice
443 8, 1| for admission have never fallen off; indeed at present it
444 2 | had been done before or falling into repetition. It was
445 8, 1| orientation and for the family style of the university
446 2 | even though in a simple fashion.~Some may think that this
447 2 | donation to the young, of our fatherly concern to understand them
448 3, 3| every Christian – the Synod Fathers write – to be prepared to
449 3, 3| which require heart and fervour, but also wisdom acquired
450 2 | trait characteristic of the figure of Don Bosco who, moved
451 8 | projection and pastoral finality, especially when our collaboration
452 7, 3| despite difficulties of finance and personnel to offer to
453 2 | Recall his readiness for finding adequate responses to problems;
454 7, 2| Cultural and pastoral quality" finds a stimulus, a setting and
455 4 | Vatican II had recently finished, and we were on the verge
456 7, 4| Pastores dabo vobis, "to oppose firmly the tendency to play down
457 4 | for a period of at least five years, the opening of new
458 1 | formation; but I want to focus in particular on the need
459 7, 3| example, the preparation and follow-up of Rectors. Some Provinces
460 3 | animators of numerous apostolic forces".~It is evident therefore
461 7, 1| which communicates a culture foreign to us, one which is frequently
462 3, 4| And it is not difficult to foresee that the incidence of this
463 7, 3| because it could not be foreseen that there would be scope
464 4 | necessarily rapid, and by forestalling exhaustion they prepare
465 7, 4| history which must not be forgotten, spirituality to be understood,
466 5 | the expression "governare formando", governing by formation.
467 3, 4| the towing nucleus"), formators of adults who share responsibility
468 7, 1| dedication that the Spirit formed in Don Bosco and which we
469 5 | of activity, is the best formula for orientation and animation
470 2 | program, in the synthetic formulations of which it is always mentioned ("
471 1 | sought, a ‘competence’ to be fostered, an overall ‘quality’ to
472 | found
473 7, 3| have created a structure or founded an Institute if there were
474 3, 1| cultural model. A great many founders and foundresses perceiving
475 3, 1| great many founders and foundresses perceiving certain needs
476 4 | Chapter, that during the four years from 1929 to 1932
477 7, 4| Indeed the tendency to fragmentation, to what is immediately
478 7, 4| as also is a spiritual frame of reference which, with
479 8, 1| relevant importance in the framework of the salesian reality".~
480 8, 2| manages occasionally to free for the purpose.~It must
481 8, 1| mind, the net result of the frequenting of such Centres by students
482 3, 4| with adults, beyond simple friendship, on problems of life and
483 3, 3| seems indispensable on all fronts.~We are well aware that
484 3, 3| we must be able to draw fruit from their innumerable possibilities.~
485 4 | adequate preparation to work fruitfully in one of the innumerable
486 4 | the mission could not be fulfilled without the necessary preparation,
487 8, 1| applications, and in this sense fulfils a frontier mission. For
488 4 | In practice", he went on, fully aware of the difficulties
489 3, 1| horizons and gives priority to functionality and immediate use, implies
490 7, 1| program: work and temperance functions always, which means giving
491 7, 1| The conviction can even gain ground that personal culture,
492 4 | experience we have already gained"~It was an evaluation I
493 4 | of the documents of the GC19. The context is not difficult
494 7, 3| reflection and planning at the Generalate. It would be a serious matter
495 3, 3| cannot expose ourselves to a generalized form of pastoral and educative
496 3 | preceding years, and after a generally positive evaluation of our
497 7, 4| syntheses. We must not fall into genericism. Practice suggests the method
498 2 | For their welfare we give generously of our time, talents and
499 1 | gospel language it means the genuine nature and transforming
500 5 | everywhere entering new geographical and cultural frontiers,
501 8, 1| regards personnel. Today’s geography of the Congregation requires
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