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:'''necrologio''':''necrology'' List of deceased members read out or otherwise provided for each Salesian community :'''norme costituzionali''':''Constitutional norms'' Rules are synonymous with norms :'''notaio''':''notary'' One of the functions of the Provincial Secretary :'''notiziario ispettoriale''':''Province newsletter'' An alternative form is Provincial newsletter. First formally encouraged after the Special General Chapter, the PN is now more than encouraged but virtually obligated as one amongst many elements of the Salesian Social Communication System, although today it may well be in digital form rather than on papr :'''novissimi''':''the Last Things'' The Italian term comes from the Latin ''novissima''. In traditional spirituality in English we speak of the Last Things, and capitalise the term. It is a reference to heaven, hell, purgatory. In Salesian tradition the novissimi are more than just the moments of dying and death but the consideration given to sin, mortal sin, death, judgement, heaven, hell, eternity. Part of the change of mentality today has been a movement away from the notion of personal salvation only to that of the salvation of the world :'''Novitius, N''':''novice'' This term is to be found in the Yearbook :'''noviziato''':''novitiate'' There is an alternative spelling: noviciate :'''Novo Millennio Ineunte''':[LA] ''At the Beginning of the New Millennium'' Quoted either in its Latin original, but often in English translation, this is the Apostolic Letter written by Pope John Paul II on 6th January 2001 at the close of the Great Jubilee Year :'''nucleo animatore''':''animating nucleus'' Refers to the core Salesian SDB element in the educative community, though in recent times Fr Chávez has been extending the notion, indicating that the Salesian Family is the animating nucleus of the wider Salesian movement :'''nuova cultura''':''new culture'' The term is seen in the context of new evangelisation. In reference to culture, the qualifying term new indicates simply the emergence of the future with all its challenges for mankind and for faith :'''nuova evangelizzazione''':''new evangelisation'' (with 'z' in US spelling) Often attributed to Pope John Paul II as one of the characteristic terms of his pontificate, that Pope actually attributes the term to Pope Paul VI in his encyclical ''Evangelii Nuntiandi''. It became a significant ecclesial movement through the 80's and 90's and was taken up by Salesian General Chapters. JP II first used the phrase himself on March 9 1983 in a speech in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He said the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus required not a re-evangelisation but a new evangelisation. He clarified the term in his 1990 encyclical ''Redemptoris Missio'', saying it referred to groups who had lost a sense of the living faith :'''nuove frontiere''':''new frontiers'' The term begins its Salesian life, it seems, in 1989 with a reference from Fr Viganò in the context of ''Christifideles Laici'' and new evangelisation. Pope JPII refers to these ''nuove frontiere'' addressing GC23 in 1990, and Viganò continues to refer to it. Fr Vecchi broadens it out in one sense (''nuove frontiere giovanili'') but in another sense begins to direct it to the Salesian mission. This is where it begins a 'new life' - and GC25 further develops the term in 'mission' context. Then Fr Chávez begins to look at sectors of the mission - and one in particular, social communications. Finally he chooses it as one of the challenges of the Congregation to be discussed at GC26. Here it is closely tied to the Salesian mission(:nl:)