9. Conclusion

The pursuit of wisdom permeates the whole life of Don Bosco: love and knowledge at the service of the young. It is the gift and task entrusted to him at the moment of his calling, in response to his question as to how he was to succeed in carrying out such a mission. To reach it he was given a Teacher.

It is certainly a matter of that wisdom which is the ‘knowledge of God's mystery’, the "knowledge of Christ" which St Paul requested for the faithful, which in Christ includes the totality of human life and the development of history. It comes to us as a gift with faith and, for us Salesians, as a particular orientation with the charisma of predilection for the young.

May Mary most Holy, who was Don Bosco’s Teacher, be the same also for us.

This is the wish I send to each of you and to your communities, together with my fraternal greetings.

Juan E. Vecchi
Major Rector