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1002 7, 4| to them. This tendency is showing itself in certain spheres
1003 7, 2| the community. Experience shows that after some time in
1004 7, 4| of Jesus Christ. "On many sides", declared the Instrumentum
1005 1 | in the Cross which is the sign of life and salvation, and
1006 6 | for quality is addressed simultaneously to every confrere, to every
1007 7, 1| which we have to arrive at a single objective. It speaks of
1008 4 | fundamental consequences in the six years ahead.~Today I am
1009 1 | professional and pastoral skills.~I made this trend of the
1010 3, 2| confession of faith, not just a slogan; it has to do with the salvation
1011 8, 1| by the GC24: "With some small exceptions, often repeated
1012 3, 5| qualified personnel~While the so-called traditional fields of work (
1013 7, 1| and person of enterprise, socially useful, must be added the
1014 3, 2| lived with transparency and solidity. Jesus Christ, yesterday,
1015 2 | places which foster active solitude, recollection and planning.
1016 7, 4| any context, and rushed solutions in pastoral work, if they
1017 7, 3| must, however, not only solve the crises but sow for the
1018 2 | characteristic of our spirit; a theme somewhat new as regards a certain
1019 7, 4| immediately successful, soon fail, even in the short
1020 Pre | Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows~My dear Confreres,~Last
1021 1 | of an ‘excellence’ to be sought, a ‘competence’ to be fostered,
1022 2 | and for the direction of souls; the space given to study
1023 7, 4| a good "doctor", with a sound knowledge of the mysteries
1024 7, 2| community has changed. Personal sources of information have multiplied (
1025 7, 3| only solve the crises but sow for the future. The request
1026 2 | direction of souls; the space given to study in his educative
1027 1 | it with joy, and also to speak up in the modern areopagi
1028 7, 1| at a single objective. It speaks of the Salesian as one who "
1029 4 | number of confreres for specialist training, and improving
1030 4 | all, consider us authentic specialists in pedagogy and the apostolate.
1031 7, 3| year the possibility of specialization. There are also those who
1032 7, 3| suitably indicated. To do this specialized research is indispensable,
1033 4 | of collecting degrees or specializing for its own sake, and much
1034 1 | to general preparation, specifically that of a pastor and educator,
1035 6 | closing address to the GC24 I specified what preferential investment
1036 7, 4| showing itself in certain spheres of the Church, also as a
1037 3 | The question arises almost spontaneously as to the reasons for returning
1038 7, 3| there are also some dark spots. It is therefore proper
1039 2 | emigration, new laws, the spreading of culture, the Italian
1040 9 | knowledge of Christ" which St Paul requested for the faithful,
1041 4 | weariness, repetition, cultural stagnation, mental distractions, and
1042 4 | confreres" with the following statement: "The state of our resources,
1043 7, 1| each one and recalling some statements of Vita Consecrata with
1044 8, 3| publishing houses, radio stations, etc.) if we want to ensure
1045 8, 2| even at the level of the statutes.~But in addition to cultural
1046 7, 3| that qualified confreres stay in the sector of their particular
1047 7, 4| enough. After the first step there is the need for enlightening
1048 4 | own satisfaction but with sterile application to the apostolate;
1049 5 | life than for pauses and stoppages.~But the various interventions
1050 5 | criterion which emerged was to strengthen the "quality" of the Salesian,
1051 8, 3| therefore be sustained and strengthened, and reshaped if necessary,
1052 7, 2| which fosters recovery of strengths and a relaunching of the
1053 7, 2| that if we want to avoid stress, activism and superficiality,
1054 3, 3| equally true in the more strictly pastoral sector. This requires
1055 7, 1| salesian life.~Our Rule of Life strings together in rapid succession
1056 7, 4| I am convinced that a strong and complete intellectual
1057 7, 1| there are well planned and structured examples. It is up to each
1058 7, 4| community of our theological studentate of Turin-Crocetta: "I am
1059 8, 3| communicate the salesian spirit: studentates, publishing houses, pastoral
1060 7, 3| responsibility for preserving, studying and communicating its own
1061 7, 4| relegated to the level of a subjective choice.~The qualification
1062 1 | expression, multimedia culture, subjectivism, remind us of this with
1063 8 | other social or ecclesial subjects.~I will dwell on some of
1064 9 | question as to how he was to succeed in carrying out such a mission.
1065 7, 4| if they are immediately successful, soon fail, even in the
1066 7, 1| strings together in rapid succession a series of suggestions
1067 6 | preference, and I refer successively to the area of persons and
1068 7, 4| tendencies of the world suggest a commitment for the overcoming
1069 3, 3| and the orientations to be suggested to individuals in the complex
1070 7, 4| into genericism. Practice suggests the method for organizing
1071 7, 3| with criteria that can be suitably indicated. To do this specialized
1072 7, 2| opportunely prepared and supported by his Council and community,
1073 4 | seen which ones you can suppress for the better arrangement
1074 8, 2| entering into dialogue for the sustaining of alternative proposals.~
1075 7, 2| case of the chapel, also a symbolic value in the overall physiognomy
1076 7, 4| leaving a synthetic and systematic doctrinal foundation, which
1077 7, 1| existence which no longer tallies with the one we have professed.
1078 7, 2| prayer and working as a team.~It seems clear today that
1079 4 | men, men without cultural, technical or professional training…
1080 1 | accompanied by the knowledge and techniques proper to a field of activity,
1081 3, 3| brought up by scientific and technological discoveries. It strongly
1082 7, 1| And all this adds up to telling us that there is a gift
1083 7, 1| ascetical program: work and temperance functions always, which
1084 3, 1| which does not go beyond temporal horizons and gives priority
1085 7, 2| communities we are more tempted to waste time, we seem to
1086 7, 4| this period some guidelines tending to "qualify intellectual
1087 7, 3| of which we are speaking tends to be aimed at improving
1088 7, 4| fail, even in the short term".~
1089 Pre | life. Their desire to hear testimonies of faith and their enthusiasm
1090 3, 1| significance, the legibility of its testimony to God, its capacity for
1091 2 | presence in human history.~The text has been frequently quoted,
1092 7, 1| enterprise are admired. We must thank the Lord for this capacity
1093 7, 1| and sacramental pedagogy, themes connected with the relationship
1094 3, 4| will they need a better theoretical and practical knowledge
1095 3, 1| proposal… The manner of thinking and acting of those who
1096 Pre | people. We were struck by the thirst for the Gospel shown by
1097 7, 4| in which life is lived. Thoughtlessness, if we may so call it, in
1098 7, 1| ourselves by what channels our thoughts and sensitivity are fed;
1099 2 | brought about, frequently threatened by schizophrenia in the
1100 8, 2| proposing a sense which throws light on nature, history
1101 5 | the brake on missionary thrust or on apostolic creativity,
1102 7, 1| individual confreres: "Attende tibi"~The mystique of work appears
1103 2 | which is extraordinarily timely, in the face of present-day
1104 8, 3| mere guaranteeing of the timetable of lessons; to foster collaboration
1105 2 | Pontifical Athenaeum the title of Pontifical University,
1106 7, 3| and for the confreres of tomorrow of the story of the implanting
1107 7, 3| organizations. Qualification of top management, of those responsible
1108 7, 1| Lord for this capacity of total dedication that the Spirit
1109 3, 5| recognized ability for being in touch with the ordinary people.~
1110 2 | something marginal which touches only certain moments of
1111 3, 4| of other educators ("the towing nucleus"), formators of
1112 2 | in the light of faith its traces in nature and its presence
1113 3, 5| personnel~While the so-called traditional fields of work (oratories,
1114 2 | projects.. It is in fact a trait characteristic of the figure
1115 7, 1| fact one of the fruitful traits of our spirituality. But
1116 4 | Provinces; it will bring tranquility to the houses and relief
1117 8, 1| confreres to be co-opted and transferred to Rome. Such a criterion,
1118 1 | means the genuine nature and transforming force of leaven.~Quality
1119 3, 4| consideration of the message, and of translating it into forms adequate to
1120 2 | fact are necessary for the translation of salesian pastoral charity
1121 3, 2| re-understood and lived with transparency and solidity. Jesus Christ,
1122 3, 3| methods, overcoming the simple transposition of contents and methods
1123 7, 3| virtue of the worldwide and transversal nature of activity in every
1124 1 | pastoral skills.~I made this trend of the Chapter my own, and
1125 7, 4| increasingly that teachers be truly able to face the complexity
1126 7, 4| theological studentate of Turin-Crocetta: "I am convinced that a
1127 6 | that calls for patient and unceasing effort".~A second fact:
1128 7, 2| indifference.~Our communities have undergone changes in their composition
1129 1 | the same challenge which underlies the new evangelization:
1130 7, 1| the young and adults, and undermine our capacity for influencing
1131 7, 4| to what is immediately understandable and practicable leaves us
1132 8, 3| multiplied without previous understandings.~The search for cultural
1133 3, 5| theological studies in which every undue cutback is going to have
1134 2 | of culture, the Italian unification and Risorgimento, etc.).~
1135 7, 1| light of the Spirit, that union with God, which gave an
1136 7, 4| work and pedagogy must be united in the mind and in life:
1137 7, 4| important. The awareness of the universality of the Congregation, the
1138 7, 4| human significance. Not unreal is the risk of going astray
1139 7, 4| salesian community and mission. Unusual, however, is the importance
1140 4 | result of "Da mihi animas", urge us to be enterprising. And
1141 7, 1| less important and even useless and distracting, and giving
1142 7, 3| a patrimony which is so valuable. Think of the value for
1143 6 | while the mentality on the values and concepts of life presents
1144 8, 2| Others go ahead with a variable number of confreres according
1145 7, 3| Congregation is very rich and varied, and consequently there
1146 8, 2| their juridical structure varies, the involvement of the
1147 5 | situations in the Congregation vary greatly even from the perspective
1148 8, 1| Church, it assists widely varying sectors of the salesian
1149 1 | to see at first hand the vast extent of the youth area,
1150 4 | difficult to understand. Vatican II had recently finished,
1151 9 | fraternal greetings.~Juan E. Vecchi~Major Rector~ ~
1152 7, 1| value of our vocation, I venture to put to each one some
1153 4 | finished, and we were on the verge of discovering new horizons
1154 7, 4| life.~And then we want to "verify and adapt intellectual formation (
1155 2 | Vitae, with which Pope Paul VI in 1973 conferred on the
1156 7, 4| for organizing thought and viceversa. On the other hand, explicit
1157 2 | first place, but also the vicissitudes of the Church and the situation
1158 7, 2| in moments of exchange of views and processes which foster
1159 4 | the guidance of Fr Egidio Viganò, emphasized the same emergency
1160 3, 1| current mentality. It needs vigilance, of mind and spirit in the
1161 7, 3| others can be added in virtue of the worldwide and transversal
1162 Pre | from Cuba, where I recently visited our confreres. I have seen
1163 2 | Motu Proprio Magisterium Vitae, with which Pope Paul VI
1164 2 | desk-work which gave rise to voluminous correspondence, ideas for
1165 4 | am convinced that we must wager on this priority investment
1166 7, 3| importance that the Church wants to entrust to us in zones
1167 7, 2| communities we are more tempted to waste time, we seem to live in
1168 3, 3| of being on the Church’s wavelength. "‘If we expect every Christian –
1169 3, 3| more consolidated practice. Weak professional quality means
1170 8 | organizational aspects and thus weakening the cultural projection
1171 8, 1| provided for, but it would be a weakness to do this only because
1172 4 | activity does not lead to weariness, repetition, cultural stagnation,
1173 7, 3| Council; they organize a week of spiritual and pastoral
1174 7, 2| necessarily impose a daily and weekly rhythm, which fosters recovery
1175 3, 4| goal becomes lost under the weight of the means to achieve
1176 2 | whole of one’s being to welcoming God’s mystery, and of reading
1177 2 | the young. (…) For their welfare we give generously of our
1178 8, 2| group of confreres with the well-defined roles of a university institution
1179 4 | clerics". "In practice", he went on, fully aware of the difficulties
1180 | whatever
1181 3, 1| Consecrated life cannot be whittled down to meet the current
1182 | whose
1183 | Why
1184 3, 3| religious indifference, by a widespread mistrust regarding the real
1185 7, 3| situations.~The Congregation willed the foundation of the Salesian
1186 9 | also for us.~This is the wish I send to each of you and
1187 3, 2| or the Gospel, the Church wishes to renew the Gospel and
1188 3, 2| the social reality.~Anyone wishing to commit himself to the
1189 5 | up, the General Council wondered how to set up an action
1190 2 | also of the launching of a work-project in line with the times.
1191 7, 3| there were not the men who worked there with love and enthusiasm.~
1192 7, 1| image of the religious as a worker and person of enterprise,
1193 3, 3| our work and, as it gets worse, could lead to our exclusion
1194 2 | discernment of events, in the worth in God’s eyes of spiritual
1195 3, 3| Christian – the Synod Fathers write – to be prepared to make
1196 2 | presented in words and writing, implied the mental application
1197 Pre | experienced together the XII World Youth Day which took
1198 3, 2| solidity. Jesus Christ, yesterday, today and always is a confession
1199 8 | cultural proposals.~Apostolic zeal, attention to cultural orientation
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