Proposals

Primacy of God

14.  In the provinces there is a strong need to recognize the primacy of God,

living the evangelical Beatitudes, favoring interior unification, overcoming the dichotomy between faith and life.  There is a felt recall to educating self and others to inner life and silence, empowering the contemplative dimension.  Bringing life to prayer and prayer to life represents the most felt urgency for developing the syntheses between the primacy of God and the gift of self, the fraternal relationship and the educational passion.

15.  There was brought out the need to base life on a profound experience of God-Trinity and to center it in Christ, becoming like Him through the grace of the Spirit.

While recognizing the journey realized in the listening to the Word of God, there is manifested the need to root ourselves deeply in it, to study it, live it and share it even with the laity, promoting spaces of reflection with them.

There emerges the need to live in an attitude of discernment in the life of the Word in a climate of constant, renewed motivation in the radical choice of Jesus and for His Kingdom that opens to the new frontiers of the educational mission.

Discernment in the light of the Word

From the syntheses of the provinces, there emerges the need to:

·       care for the times of the revision of one’s spiritual life in order to progress along the journey of evangelical conversion;

·       re-vitalize personal and community prayer, improving its quality and manner so that it will become deeper, more liberating and inculturated so as to involve us evangelically in the problems of the world;

·       appreciate more profoundly the participation in the Eucharist and the frequency of the sacrament of Reconciliation, cornerstones of our experience of Christians who live the Beatitudes and are the columns of the Salesian educational system;

·       celebrate the liturgy of the hours with renewed commitment, aware of our participation in the great prayer of the Church.

Marian spirituality

16.  The syntheses further, return insistently to the need of reviving Marian

spirituality, recognizing in Mary the woman of the Covenant, the mother and educator who cares for her people.  It is held to be fundamental that we rediscover and live the attitude of Mary, revealed in the hymn of the Magnificat and assume in particular her vigilant and attentive glance so as to be promoters of communion.

Feminine Salesian style

17.  The provinces bring out the importance of re-creating in daily life the spirit of Mornese, living Salesian spirituality in a feminine manner, qualifying it as prophecy of our being with the features of the Salesian educational presenceand living it deeply in the da mihi animas of the entrustment: I entrust them to you. They further emphasize the need to understand and live in the educating communities the Preventive System as a journey of formation and reciprocal enrichment, as an indispensable condition for educating others and ourselves to a responsible citizenship, rooted in the Gospel.