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502 3, 4| implies the risk that we may get too entangled in organizing
503 3, 3| impact of our work and, as it gets worse, could lead to our
504 2 | of the Country, without getting lost or becoming conditioned,
505 7, 3| governmental commitment: we seek to govern by forming those who animate
506 5 | formation. We are aware that governance includes other specific
507 5 | commitment into the expression "governare formando", governing by
508 5 | expression "governare formando", governing by formation. We are aware
509 2 | vocation – it says - is graced by a special gift of God:
510 7, 3| difficulties many of you are grappling with each year as you try
511 2 | broader horizons, and able to grasp the implications of phenomena
512 2 | commitment to study can have grave consequences for the apostolate,
513 9 | together with my fraternal greetings.~Juan E. Vecchi~Major Rector~ ~
514 2 | available, and constantly at grips with new projects.. It is
515 7, 1| conviction can even gain ground that personal culture, such
516 8, 2| looked after by a solid group of confreres with the well-defined
517 2 | even to give my life"~The growing emphasis of words and actions
518 2 | to enlighten, teach and guide; the frequent references
519 3, 4| maturing and growth, of guiding individuals, of interacting
520 7, 4| vision of reality, creates habits of reflection and provides
521 1 | in the first year and a half of my service as Rector
522 8, 2| spiritual animation, it can also happen that in our university centres
523 2 | quoted, but it will do no harm to hear it again: "In addition
524 1 | numerous collaborators.~The harvest is great! More than by the
525 1 | Father pours abundantly into hearts, in the Cross which is the
526 3, 3| The present situation is heavily marked by religious indifference,
527 | Here
528 7, 2| and externs, our specific heritage of history, pedagogy and
529 3, 3| discoveries. It strongly demands a high level of intellectual formation,
530 8, 2| create the opportunity of a higher education amid the middle
531 5 | the various interventions highlight the need to make definite
532 8, 1| such Centres by students is highly positive for individuals,
533 7, 3| foundation of the Salesian Historical Institute. It is the manifestation
534 7, 2| overall physiognomy of the house.~The use made of it by the
535 8, 2| mentality and passes on a humanistic and religious vision, there
536 2 | light on individuals and on humanity as a whole, not only by
537 Pre | love, service, patience, humility and perseverance". In it
538 7, 2| seem to live in a perpetual hurry, from one emergency to another;
539 7, 4| determined by "for you I study"; i.e. it receives its original
540 3, 5| post-novitiate study centres with identical demands. And we may add
541 7, 3| between study centres. Identifying the areas in which cultural
542 1 | talents we have received lying idle.~
543 4 | difficult to understand. Vatican II had recently finished, and
544 2 | wisdom" ("Sapientiam dedit illi…"), indicated in his first
545 7, 1| fed; how we construct and illustrate in ourselves the relationship
546 2 | assertion is immediately illustrated by Don Bosco’s expression: "
547 Pre | possible opportunities.~The two images have prompted me to present
548 8 | project. The risk is not just imaginary of remaining entangled in
549 3, 3| in which young people are immersed and to the problems posed
550 7, 1| confreres. It is not an impediment to growth but is in fact
551 4 | evaluation I thought to be imperative, open to interpretations
552 7, 3| tomorrow of the story of the implanting and growth of the Congregation
553 2 | presented in words and writing, implied the mental application expressed
554 3, 4| interacting in the social context, imply that qualifications must
555 7, 2| superficiality, we must necessarily impose a daily and weekly rhythm,
556 4 | conscious choice is being imposed on the Congregation and
557 3, 3| professional quality means an impoverishment of the educative project;
558 4 | mental distractions, and improvisation.~It is not the first time
559 8 | through which the mission is incarnated.. The process of elaboration
560 3, 2| world copies the way of the incarnation and takes its inspiration
561 7, 2| exploit some particular incentives, such as the guidelines
562 7, 4| is therefore opportune to include in one’s personal cultural
563 Pre | has already reflected and included in the six-year program:
564 3, 5| of certain kinds of work increases precisely the demand for
565 4 | Rinaldi. Vocations were increasing in a consoling manner (there
566 7, 4| the Church today demands increasingly that teachers be truly able
567 7, 4| enlarged and modified, should inculcate also a taste for reflection,
568 3, 3| adequate to the situation and inculturate our pedagogical methods,
569 3, 1| An inculturated and prophetic consecrated
570 7, 4| the implementation of the indications of the GC24". Salesian sensitivity,
571 7, 2| material available in them are indicative: they have a real utility
572 3, 1| render ourselves aware, individually and as communities, through
573 4 | we want to respond to the inescapable demands of our mission,
574 2 | sense of marginalization and inferiority, or encouraging superficiality
575 7, 1| undermine our capacity for influencing because of dispersion and
576 5 | needs, the possibility of an influential presence on a broad scale
577 4 | for so many works and not infrequently studies were sacrificed,
578 5 | well the resources we have inherited, but that we must also be
579 3, 1| answer which has become an innovative cultural proposal… The manner
580 7, 1| discernment, etc.), we shall be insensibly oriented towards a vision
581 3, 1| environment whatever is lawful, insert in it what is new that comes
582 3, 3| point the Synod strongly insisted with regard to priestly
583 7, 3| outside the Congregation. Insisting that qualified confreres
584 7, 4| the Congregation as, for instance, those laid down by the
585 8, 2| considerable challenges from an institutional aspect, and from the standpoint
586 5 | educative contexts very much institutionalized and dictated from outside,
587 3, 4| cultural projection, between instruments and evangelizing effects,
588 7, 4| many sides", declared the Instrumentum Laboris of the Synod on
589 8, 2| criterion" at this level by integrating preoccupation for organization
590 2 | good of the young. It is an integration not easily brought about,
591 7, 4| criterion on the basis of intelligence quotients. We know that
592 2 | mystery, and of reading intelligently and objectively in the light
593 1 | educative and pastoral nature, intent on expressing the mission
594 1 | alive in every confrere an intention and tendency towards the
595 7, 3| established agreements for inter-provincial collaboration by contributing
596 3, 3| practically universal: ecumenism, inter-religious dialogue and with non-believers,
597 3, 4| guiding individuals, of interacting in the social context, imply
598 7, 2| both cases the level of interest, the quality of information,
599 8, 1| Recently it has given life to interesting pastoral initiatives for
600 7, 1| When the GC23 said that interior apostolic conviction is
601 7, 3| of those responsible at intermediate level, and of the workers
602 7, 2| multiplied (Books, reviews, CD, internet). But it has a function
603 3, 2| proclamation in the heart of life, interpret new languages and codes
604 4 | to be imperative, open to interpretations not always well understood,
605 7, 4| cultural commitment to be interpreted as a selective criterion
606 3, 2| to being a Christian, an interrogation on the identity of believers,
607 7, 4| and large communities; of intervening at times in areas of life
608 4 | points.~In 1928 there was an intervention of Don Rinaldi. Vocations
609 7, 2| Modifications have been introduced in the relationship with
610 2 | pre-existing material, his own intuitions, the contributions of contemporaries
611 1 | and to ask Provincials to invest in the preparation of personnel
612 8 | need for cultural quality involves not only individuals, but
613 8 | have the possibility of involving other social or ecclesial
614 8, 1| must affirm once again its irreplaceable function "in the service
615 2 | spreading of culture, the Italian unification and Risorgimento,
616 2 | history, of the history of Italy, of Christian truth and
617 8, 3| in study centres managed jointly with other institutions (
618 9 | my fraternal greetings.~Juan E. Vecchi~Major Rector~ ~
619 8, 2| one from another; their juridical structure varies, the involvement
620 7, 3| daily attention shown in keeping the chronicle, in the custody
621 2 | which always combine loving kindness with the ability to enlighten,
622 3, 5| that the growth of certain kinds of work increases precisely
623 7, 4| of the mysteries of the Kingdom and of human life.~And then
624 5 | qualification of its personnel knows already that it will reap
625 7, 4| declared the Instrumentum Laboris of the Synod on Consecrated
626 7, 2| reflection. It should never be lacking, in due proportion, even
627 Pre | September 1997~Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows~My dear Confreres,~
628 1 | problem of quality; in gospel language it means the genuine nature
629 5 | previously made or to let it lapse.~While the program for the
630 | Last
631 | later
632 5 | indispensable. A province that launches a plan for the qualification
633 2 | It reminds us also of the launching of a work-project in line
634 2 | the press, emigration, new laws, the spreading of culture,
635 6 | terms. "Investing means laying down and maintaining priorities,
636 8, 1| operational project which lays down the lines of development
637 2 | experiences and competence, with leaders in the fields of thought,
638 2 | characteristic of his life, which he learned at the school of the Good
639 7, 4| understandable and practicable leaves us exposed to dangerous
640 3, 1| as its significance, the legibility of its testimony to God,
641 3, 3| make it credible to the legitimate demands of human reason"~~
642 Pre | to present to you at some length a theme on which the General
643 2 | present-day cultural diversity. A lessened commitment to study can
644 8, 3| guaranteeing of the timetable of lessons; to foster collaboration
645 4 | functioning". And in a letter of 1906 he returned decisively
646 7, 2| of General Chapters and letters of the Rector Major; and
647 8, 2| there is always the risk of levelling down to the prevailing mentality
648 7, 2| the Province one or more libraries which are as complete as
649 7, 2| every local community is the library and the corresponding reading
650 7, 1| minor aspect. Sometimes the lifestyle we adopt and our rhythm
651 4 | apostolate. We must, to the limit of our capacity, live up
652 3 | not motivated by lack or limitation, but by the very significance
653 7, 4| commitment for the overcoming of linguistic barriers and creating possibilities
654 7, 2| assigned to the confreres, linkage with the external social
655 3, 3| of education are closely linked with quality. For this reason,
656 3, 3| life. We will do well to listen again to some expressions
657 8 | is not obtained merely by listing fundamental objectives.
658 2 | only certain moments of our lives or is of concern to those
659 7, 2| information.~An indispensable location for every local community
660 1 | Some expressions which have long become common, such as pluralism,
661 5 | governmental action and long-term vision are indispensable.
662 8, 2| which run them. Some are looked after by a solid group of
663 7, 3| memories of the past means the loss of roots. Today we are facing
664 4 | qualification which is not a luxury but an ever more evident
665 1 | talents we have received lying idle.~
666 2 | beginning of the Motu Proprio Magisterium Vitae, with which Pope Paul
667 7, 3| personnel to be prepared and be magnanimous in ensuring for the Province
668 6 | accepted.~The first is that the main resource of the Congregation
669 8, 1| of our University must be maintained as also the quality of its
670 6 | Investing means laying down and maintaining priorities, ensuring conditions,
671 7, 1| theological updating and maintains his professional competence
672 8, 3| participation in study centres managed jointly with other institutions (
673 8, 2| qualified personnel the Province manages occasionally to free for
674 8, 2| frequently find ourselves managing the structures without having
675 8, 1| followed in these years manifests a development that can be
676 8, 2| Creator, the Saviour of mankind, the strength and goal of
677 7, 1| apply to work, in which manual dexterity and physical force
678 2 | therefore a matter of something marginal which touches only certain
679 2 | giving rise to a sense of marginalization and inferiority, or encouraging
680 3, 1| often happens through the mass media, its image is distorted
681 5 | the purpose of re-imposing materially the measures indicated at
682 7, 4| and helps to an evermore mature and conscious living, without
683 4 | always well understood, but matured in prayer and suffering.
684 2 | references to wisdom in his maxims and also the enlightening
685 7, 4| the educative mission into meaningful projects in the present
686 7, 4| not limited to studies nor measured only by intellectual ability,
687 5 | re-imposing materially the measures indicated at those periods.
688 3, 1| happens through the mass media, its image is distorted
689 7, 1| frequent an alternative school (meditation, revision of life, reading,
690 3, 3| have to be realistic in meeting urgent needs, and we are
691 3, 5| the questions which each member and community has to face,
692 3, 4| and laity, Catholics and members of other religions, conscious
693 Pre | Rome, 15 September 1997~Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows~My
694 7, 3| every Province. Neglect of memories of the past means the loss
695 7, 3| the task of ensuring the memory of salesian history, as
696 7, 2| way to routine and become mentally isolated.~The pattern of
697 2 | formulations of which it is always mentioned ("health, study, piety");
698 2 | providing easily understood messages, using every means at his
699 8, 2| higher education amid the middle and poorer classes and fill
700 3, 2| these final years of the old millennium. At a time of epoch-making
701 7, 1| confuse our image in the minds of the young and adults,
702 3, 3| professional implementation of ministerial tasks. Direction of consciences,
703 7, 1| physical force are only a minor aspect. Sometimes the lifestyle
704 3, 3| indifference, by a widespread mistrust regarding the real capacity
705 7, 2| composition and in their life. Modifications have been introduced in
706 7, 4| which can be enlarged and modified, should inculcate also a
707 4 | these changes". And some months later he wrote in the Acts
708 | Moreover
709 3 | new requirements". As a motivation for this conclusion with
710 3 | briefly on each of these motives.~~
711 2 | at the beginning of the Motu Proprio Magisterium Vitae,
712 2 | figure of Don Bosco who, moved by Da mihi animas, offered
713 5 | cultural frontiers, and this movement will continue in the immediate
714 1 | thought and expression, multimedia culture, subjectivism, remind
715 4 | opportunities we are offered, the multiplication of projects, constant elements
716 5 | and animation because it multiplies results and creates unity.~
717 7, 1| confreres: "Attende tibi"~The mystique of work appears as one of
718 5 | salesian mission at regional, national and international level.~
719 3, 2| self-destruction.~The effort to draw near to and understand such a
720 4 | line with the evolution in nearly all the branches of theology
721 7, 3| reflected in every Province. Neglect of memories of the past
722 5 | aspects which cannot be neglected, but we consider that the
723 3, 4| structures and arranging means, neglecting the communal rethinking
724 2 | quantity of writings far from negligible.~Charity and competence,
725 | neither
726 8, 1| willing to keep in mind, the net result of the frequenting
727 1 | pluralism, an ethically neutral society, secularization,
728 7, 1| needed. The common mentality, newspapers, examples from advertising
729 7, 2| simpler occasions like "good nights", spiritual reading, and
730 4 | place before even the most noble of other aspirations, the
731 3, 3| inter-religious dialogue and with non-believers, the use of social communication
732 8, 3| the careful selection of non-salesian collaborators.~In this context,
733 2 | intelligent and practical norms and guidelines with attention
734 5 | mission, as we have already noted, is everywhere entering
735 3, 3| education altogether. We notice this risk particularly in
736 7, 1| life in the Spirit? Do we nourish the taste for a broader
737 7, 2| and work find support and nourishment in the annual program which
738 4 | there were about 1,000 novices); salesian works, and especially
739 8, 2| cultural gaps that existed. Nowadays one can no longer think
740 8, 1| to which corresponds the numerical and qualitative consistency
741 7, 1| community initiatives" he nurtures his salesian spiritual life,
742 4 | the various tasks to which obedience calls him. Today society
743 2 | reading intelligently and objectively in the light of faith its
744 5 | of human resources is an obligation!~The salesian mission, as
745 1 | urgency of a lawful and obligatory qualification must not be
746 8, 1| verifying once more the results observable in the Congregation, I repeat
747 8 | collective mentality. This is not obtained merely by listing fundamental
748 8, 2| personnel the Province manages occasionally to free for the purpose.~
749 | off
750 7, 2| establishing conditions for offering the confreres an updated
751 4 | Ricceri in 1966, in the official presentation of the documents
752 3, 4| communities~The GC24 has officially sanctioned the change in
753 3, 2| these final years of the old millennium. At a time of
754 7, 1| distracting, and giving oneself with enthusiasm to what
755 8, 1| formulation of an organic operational project which lays down
756 7, 4| collaboration. It is therefore opportune to include in one’s personal
757 7, 2| standpoint.~The Rector, opportunely prepared and supported by
758 8, 2| a service to create the opportunity of a higher education amid
759 3, 4| model could be thought of as optional or alternative, today it
760 8, 2| staff one can express the "oratorian criterion" at this level
761 3, 5| traditional fields of work (oratories, schools, parishes, etc.)
762 8 | capacity for its orientation in order to be faithful to the salesian
763 2 | the principle that a well ordered activity of study and thought
764 2 | Institute after priestly ordination for an updated knowledge
765 3, 3| communities, provincial organisms, and Centres of study and
766 8 | of remaining entangled in organizational aspects and thus weakening
767 7, 3| regard is provided by all organizations. Qualification of top management,
768 7, 3| who animate and direct, we orientate by giving a better preparation
769 3, 3| Christian community and the orientations to be suggested to individuals
770 7, 1| we shall be insensibly oriented towards a vision of life
771 7, 3| particular field find no outlet for their talents except
772 8, 2| level. In a few cases at the outset attention was directed especially
773 7, 1| sense given to it in these pages, what is our program with
774 7, 3| in part is being met. The panorama of the Congregation is very
775 8 | some of these by way of paradigms, but the application extends
776 Pre | Day which took place at Paris with an impressive participation
777 3, 5| work (oratories, schools, parishes, etc.) need the ability
778 7, 3| the qualifications, even partial ones, of all the confreres
779 8, 2| Christian mentality and passes on a humanistic and religious
780 7, 2| become mentally isolated.~The pattern of life and work of the
781 4 | houses or of missions. This pause, well understood by Provincials
782 7, 4| in intellectual formation pays no dividends in any context,
783 Pre | working as they look forward peacefully to coming developments which
784 3, 1| where secularization has penetrated into public and private
785 4 | practice, in the light of perceived demands and to prepare for
786 3, 1| founders and foundresses perceiving certain needs of their time,
787 | perhaps
788 7, 1| spirit, and be ready for periodic requalification". And all
789 5 | the future as we face the permanent tensions between what is
790 9 | Conclusion~The pursuit of wisdom permeates the whole life of Don Bosco:
791 7, 2| time, we seem to live in a perpetual hurry, from one emergency
792 Pre | patience, humility and perseverance". In it our confreres and
793 8, 3| teachers on the development of personality is often more decisive than
794 3, 3| hope that is in us (cf. 1 Pet 3,15), then all the more
795 7, 4| during the initial formation phase". I will refer to three
796 7, 1| which manual dexterity and physical force are only a minor aspect.
797 7, 1| unity of life. Don Bosco was physically drained but he cultivated
798 2 | careful to evaluate the whole picture from the educative and pastoral
799 7, 1| Provinces there are well planned and structured examples.
800 8, 2| and organization but not plans for life and the accompaniment
801 8, 2| Salesian Universities, almost a platform for proclaiming their fundamental
802 4 | returned decisively to the same points.~In 1928 there was an intervention
803 7, 2| an idea of the social and political context in which the works
804 2 | in the fields of thought, politics and social life.~Also the
805 8, 2| education amid the middle and poorer classes and fill the cultural
806 3, 3| immersed and to the problems posed by the environment to human
807 7, 4| times and that they be in a position to face competently, with
808 4 | particular those in directive positions, sending the greatest possible
809 7, 4| the pastoral field and the possession of pedagogical competence
810 3, 5| repercussions in the future, or post-novitiate study centres with identical
811 7, 3| year as you try to fill the posts of work and, with you, I
812 8, 1| specific cultural and formative potential". It expresses at the highest
813 1 | the grace which the Father pours abundantly into hearts,
814 1 | efficacious embracing of poverty, effective expression of
815 1 | more numerous or have more powerful means at our disposal; what
816 7, 4| immediately understandable and practicable leaves us exposed to dangerous
817 3, 3| pastoral work which have become practically universal: ecumenism, inter-religious
818 3, 1| its essence; it is often praised for its commitment in the
819 2 | original educative system" from pre-existing material, his own intuitions,
820 3, 5| kinds of work increases precisely the demand for properly
821 6 | commitments which should be given preference, and I refer successively
822 2 | expression recalls some of his preferences and attitudes which converge
823 6 | the GC24 I specified what preferential investment in formation
824 3, 3| formative levels in the preferred area of our mission: education.
825 2 | works to reach the goal prefigured for our educative and pastoral
826 8, 2| this level by integrating preoccupation for organization and attention
827 8, 1| Pontifical University is preparing to celebrate 25 years of
828 7, 3| custody of archives, in the preservation of significant documentation.~~
829 7, 1| further qualification…, preserve the availability which is
830 7, 3| feel the responsibility for preserving, studying and communicating
831 2 | and collective life (the press, emigration, new laws, the
832 8, 2| of levelling down to the prevailing mentality rather than entering
833 5 | certain times expansion prevails, while at other times we
834 7, 1| our process of growth, for preventing wear and tear and for controlling
835 8, 3| than be multiplied without previous understandings.~The search
836 6 | to a program which gives pride of place to persons, communities
837 2 | of the educator and the priest which always combine loving
838 3, 3| should candidates for the priesthood and priests have diligent
839 5 | 5. The principal investment at the present
840 2 | end up in line with the principle that a well ordered activity
841 3, 1| penetrated into public and private life, what is in question
842 8, 2| Universities, almost a platform for proclaiming their fundamental inspiration),
843 3, 2| tendencies, try to make a proclamation in the heart of life, interpret
844 1 | felt almost as a constant prodding in our GC24. It was clear
845 7, 1| especially when a ruthless rhythm prods us in the direction of what
846 2 | for new projects and the production of a quantity of writings
847 7, 1| tallies with the one we have professed. We must always ask ourselves
848 3, 4| concern for the cultural and profession preparation of religious
849 7, 1| which gave an original profile – we call it salesian holiness –
850 7, 3| provincial level which is programmed and constant must therefore
851 8, 1| of the project, and the promotion of a style of academic community
852 Pre | opportunities.~The two images have prompted me to present to you at
853 3, 5| precisely the demand for properly prepared personnel. When
854 3, 1| insertion in the environment as prophecy and leaven.~But for this
855 7, 2| never be lacking, in due proportion, even in missionary residences,
856 2 | the beginning of the Motu Proprio Magisterium Vitae, with
857 4 | fields of action to which Providence has called us. It can be
858 7, 2| charism and salesian work at Provincil and local level, and writings
859 5 | wise overall vision enables provision to be made for local requirements,
860 5 | cause suffering but can also provoke enthusiasm. Finally they
861 3, 3| communication which becomes a pulpit at everyone’s disposal,
862 9 | 9. Conclusion~The pursuit of wisdom permeates the
863 1 | the present situation: the putting forward of a sense of life,
864 1 | great! More than by the quantitative disproportion between the
865 2 | and the production of a quantity of writings far from negligible.~
866 8, 3| Church. There are in fact quite a number of Provinces that
867 7, 3| already taken certain steps. I quote, for example, the preparation
868 7, 4| the basis of intelligence quotients. We know that all capacities,
869 8, 3| culture (publishing houses, radio stations, etc.) if we want
870 6 | attention. Culture evolves rapidly, knowledge becomes more
871 2 | encouraging superficiality and rash initiatives" ~The recommendation
872 4 | developing at an impressive rate and new requests were being
873 7, 4| evangelization".~We must therefore re-emphasize the importance of intellectual
874 5 | less for the purpose of re-imposing materially the measures
875 7, 1| multiplied for qualification, re-qualification and updating. In several
876 3, 2| for our hope need to be re-understood and lived with transparency
877 7, 3| place over 150 years and reached every continent, and its
878 3, 1| ability to interact and react, to make proposals and to
879 8, 1| documents of the GC24 we read: "The present development
880 2 | own vocation. Recall his readiness for finding adequate responses
881 1 | respect to our mission, we are reaffirmed in our conviction about
882 3, 3| sometimes we have to be realistic in meeting urgent needs,
883 Pre | to the person of Jesus, realistically presented as the "Way, truth,
884 5 | knows already that it will reap the benefits in due time.
885 7, 4| competently, with clarity and deep reasoning, the questions about meaning
886 3, 2| the Gospel and culture, reawakening the sense of faith in existence
887 5 | among themselves. I have not recalled them to put the brake on
888 7, 4| for you I study"; i.e. it receives its original characterization
889 8, 2| of these centres. While recognizing that they have a general
890 2 | foster active solitude, recollection and planning. They were
891 2 | and rash initiatives" ~The recommendation does no more than endorse
892 1 | particular on the need to recover the love for cultural commitment
893 7, 3| countries which have recently recovered their freedom. It is evidently
894 5 | how to shape a process for recovering the value of our religious
895 7, 2| weekly rhythm, which fosters recovery of strengths and a relaunching
896 2 | and guide; the frequent references to wisdom in his maxims
897 5 | history to which I have referred are different from our own
898 8 | not only individuals, but refers also to projects and works
899 3, 5| the ability to think and reflect, in addition to intelligent
900 7, 4| and in recent years in our reflections on formation. "It is necessary",
901 3, 3| as educators calls for a reflective approach to culture which
902 3, 4| of the salesian spirit, a reflex and organic knowledge of
903 4 | the formative processes reformulated in the Ratio, with the updating
904 7, 4| of thought, or of taking refuge in models of behaviour and
905 3, 3| by a widespread mistrust regarding the real capacity of reason
906 7, 4| the composition of the Regions and groups of Provinces,
907 8, 1| has to be contained and regulated, in line with the possibilities
908 8, 2| missionary frontier which is relatively new and hence needs to be
909 7, 2| recovery of strengths and a relaunching of the quality of life,
910 7, 4| challenge but would rather be relegated to the level of a subjective
911 4 | tranquility to the houses and relief to all the confreres; rather
912 3, 4| Catholics and members of other religions, conscious believers and
913 3, 4| identity.~To become and remain capable of animating a broad
914 8 | is not just imaginary of remaining entangled in organizational
915 8, 3| young Salesians.~Similar remarks, in respect of personnel
916 2 | and original syntheses. It reminds us also of the launching
917 5 | kind of communication which renders efficacious what we proclaim
918 8, 1| small exceptions, often repeated excessively and which we
919 1 | A theme which crops up repeatedly~Every time we consider ourselves
920 3, 5| cutback is going to have its repercussions in the future, or post-novitiate
921 7, 4| receive full and definitive reply in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. "
922 4 | qualification of Confreres~In the Report on the State of the Congregation
923 4 | capacity, live up to this reputation… A bit of practice is no
924 7, 3| sow for the future. The request for a program of qualification
925 8, 3| sustained and strengthened, and reshaped if necessary, at regional
926 5 | are expanding and others reshaping, in some the average age
927 7, 2| proportion, even in missionary residences, in which one should be
928 8, 2| university students, such as residential hostels, groups, religious
929 4 | took efficacious steps to resolve it, with the reorganization
930 6 | The first is that the main resource of the Congregation is the
931 4 | Council: "If we want to respond to the inescapable demands
932 8, 1| confreres and Provinces have responded to recent appeals.~The service
933 7, 1| the Salesian as one who "responds to the ever new demands
934 4 | better arrangement of the rest of the Province, put the
935 4 | not a question of a light retouching but of something more radical,
936 2 | prayer, the annual spiritual retreat, certain pauses which allowed
937 1 | pastoral projects.~I now return to what was recommended
938 4 | And in a letter of 1906 he returned decisively to the same points.~
939 3 | spontaneously as to the reasons for returning to this insistence after
940 2 | experience of life.~A few facts reveal the real content this expression
941 7, 2| have multiplied (Books, reviews, CD, internet). But it has
942 1 | Jesus Christ in all his richness.~This was felt almost as
943 1 | society, secularization, the right to be different, freedom
944 2 | Italian unification and Risorgimento, etc.).~In the chapter of
945 7, 4| the mind and in life: the road to sanctity, pastoral commitment,
946 8, 1| unique physiognomy among the Roman Universities for its educative
947 7, 2| the corresponding reading room. Their care and the material
948 7, 3| the past means the loss of roots. Today we are facing the
949 7, 2| of life, we give way to routine and become mentally isolated.~
950 7, 1| to the salesian life.~Our Rule of Life strings together
951 8, 2| the salesian teams which run them. Some are looked after
952 7, 4| dividends in any context, and rushed solutions in pastoral work,
953 7, 1| competition, especially when a ruthless rhythm prods us in the direction
954 7, 1| problems of life, spiritual and sacramental pedagogy, themes connected
955 2 | himself to the diffusion of sacred history, of the history
956 4 | infrequently studies were sacrificed, and with them the formation
957 4 | was in fact the risk of sacrificing formation to the urgent
958 5 | due time. But it would be sad to lose the "capital" of
959 4 | specializing for its own sake, and much less of encouraging
960 7, 4| perspective, the study of ‘salesianity’ and the implementation
961 7, 3| confreres.~This is just a sample, but it serves to show that
962 3, 4| The GC24 has officially sanctioned the change in the way the
963 7, 4| and in life: the road to sanctity, pastoral commitment, and
964 2 | acquisition of "wisdom" ("Sapientiam dedit illi…"), indicated
965 4 | desires to study for one’s own satisfaction but with sterile application
966 Pre | For you I study..." (C 14)~Satisfactory preparation of the confreres~
967 2 | verification, without being satisfied with what had been done
968 8, 2| of God the Creator, the Saviour of mankind, the strength
969 7, 1| cultivating our plan of life, for savouring the experience of being
970 5 | influential presence on a broad scale will still determine our
971 4 | urgent needs of the mission, scarcity of personnel, the new opportunities
972 2 | frequently threatened by schizophrenia in the activity or in the
973 3, 5| fields of work (oratories, schools, parishes, etc.) need the
974 6 | exposed to wear and tear or to sclerosis and need particular attention.
975 7, 3| foreseen that there would be scope for their application in
976 5 | the relationships between SDBs and lay people, the effectiveness
977 6 | and unceasing effort".~A second fact: exceptional initiatives
978 1 | expression of the Gospel, seeing to it that the Word of God
979 7, 1| young and the poor"; he seeks opportunities for "learning
980 8, 2| lay people who have been selected and made aware of the character
981 8, 3| University, and the careful selection of non-salesian collaborators.~
982 7, 4| commitment to be interpreted as a selective criterion on the basis of
983 3, 2| projects may not lead it to self-destruction.~The effort to draw near
984 7, 4| particular those of the heart and self-donation, can find a place in the
985 4 | much less of encouraging selfish or ambitious desires to
986 9 | for us.~This is the wish I send to each of you and to your
987 4 | in directive positions, sending the greatest possible number
988 7, 3| develop all the gifts the Lord sends to our beloved Congregation.
989 3, 1| extent of rendering it a senseless reality in the eyes of people
990 1 | educative competence cannot be separated one from another, if the
991 1 | at the present day with a serene maturity and facing up adequately
992 7, 4| tendency to play down the seriousness of studies and the commitment
993 3, 3| risk particularly in some settings in which new items appear
994 7, 3| Congregation, recalling that the SGC asked us to draw up a program
995 | shall
996 5 | investment in formation; how to shape a process for recovering
997 8, 3| foster collaboration and shared interprovincial responsibility
998 3, 3| current human situations, the shedding of light on ethical questions,
999 2 | of also as a wisdom which sheds light on individuals and
1000 7, 3| level, and of the workers at shop-floor level has always been given
1001 7, 4| soon fail, even in the short term".~
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