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Salesian Missions 2025

150th anniversary path to renew our missionary spirit

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Official logo 150 (Salesian Missions 1875-2025)

 

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Primer for the 150th-anniversary project

150 aniv 2025 intro - ENG.pdf 

Provincial Plan for the Missionary Animation (2025)

Privat-Provincial Plan For Missionary Animation.pdf

 

Verso_150_2025_-_ENG_concorso_logo.pdf

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Give Thanks: We give thanks to God for the gift of missionary vocation, which enables the sons of Don Bosco today to reach out to poor and abandoned youth in 136 countries.

 

Rethink: This is an opportune occasion to rethink and develop a renewed vision on the Salesian Missions in the light of new challenges and new perspectives which led to new missiological reflections.

 

Relaunch: We have not only a glorious history to remember and be grateful for, but also a great history still to be accomplished! We look to the future with missionary zeal and enthusiasm so that we may reach out to even more poor and abandoned youth.

 

The Official Logo: The globe crossed by waves which symbolise courage and new challenges, but also energy and boldness. At the centre is a ship, symbol of the First Salesian Missionary Expedition, and, at the same time, the fire of a renewed missionary enthusiasm. The shape of the wheel alludes to unity and mutual connection. The logo may be used only in the official version without making any changes or alterations to any part of the logo.

 

OBJECTIVE OF THE 2025 CELEBRATIONS: Keep the missionary spirit and enthusiasm alive in the Congregation in order to foster greater missionary zeal and generosity among the Salesians and the whole EPC (cf. RMs Guidelines after GC28, n. 7).

 

 

NOT AN EVENT BUT A PROCESS OF MISSIONARY RENEWAL

 

 

The 150th anniversary of the first missionary expedition ought not be only a commemorative event but a process of missionary renewal that already started with the drawing up of the six-year plan of missionary animation. Its high moment is 2025 but continues in the succeeding years. This takes place at three levels.

 

 

AT THE PROVINCE LEVEL

 

Celebrations will be mainly at the Province level. Through the RCMA the Missions Sector will continue to follow-up on each Province's Plan of missionary animation, of which the initiatives at the Province level for 2025 are part of.

 

 

In the context of the celebration, through the PDMA each Province will be actively encouraged to evaluate how it has put into practice the Rector Major's Guidelines Nos. 2, 5, 7.

 

It is urgent that we give absolute priority to the commitment to evangelise the young with conscious, intentional and explicit proposals. […] We respond to the “URGENCY OF OFFERING INITIAL PROCLAMATION WITH MORE CONVICTION, because ‘Nothing is more solid, profound, secure, meaningful and wisdom-filled than that initial proclamation’ (Christus Vivit, no. 214) (Guidelines, n. 2)

 

 

Let all Provinces make the radical, preferential, personal and institutional option – meaning on the part of every Salesian, on behalf of the most in need, boys, girls and poor and excluded youth, giving particular attention to the defence of those who are exploited and victims of what-ever abuse and violence (“the abuse of power, the abuse of conscience, sexual and financial abuse”) (Guidelines n. 5).

 

 

We made the missionary appeal concrete by inviting each Province to open a missionary project (refugees, immigrants, border crossings, exploited children...) during the previous six years, giving priority to the significance and the real requests for help from today’s youth (Guidelines n. 7).

 

 

Each Province is asked to make a concrete initiative for 2025 (e.g., ARS and ARN are preparing a Historical Congress, ZMB is starting a new presence in Botswana, etc.). This will made known through ANS, etc.

 

 

 

AT THE MISSIONS SECTOR LEVEL

 

2025 will be an occasion to make known the result of the work now underway on refugees, gypsies, Identity of Salesian Missionary Museums, Identity of Provincial Mission Offices, conclusions of roundtable discussion of missiologists and theologians on Salesian missions today, Salesian Missionary Volunteering, Bosco Food (to create an intercultural mindset), Missionary Animation materials, SMD 2025, etc.

 

 

 

AT THE CONGREGATION LEVEL

 

Missionary send-off (156th missionary expedition) on November 11, 2025 in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians, Valdocco. This is a celebration with which the Congregation renews, in front of Mary Help of Christians, its missionary commitment.

 

The Rector Major invites each Province to send a representative for the celebration. They will spend a few days (9-12 Nov 2025) in Valdocco and Genoa to “Give Thanks, Rethink, Relaunch.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANS - Rome) - The year 2025 is approaching, the year in which the Congregation will celebrate and commemorate an event so fruitful for so many young people around the world: the 150th anniversary of the first Salesian Missionary Expedition (Turin, Nov. 11, 1875). For this occasion, there will be many initiatives at the local, provincial and congregational levels. Among them, one starts today, March 22, 2023: a contest is open to design a logo that can be used for this special occasion. All Provinces can participate through the Delegates for Missionary Animation, in collaboration with the Delegate for Social Communication and related lay people and graphic designers.

Through a letter, the Missions Sector specified the theme to be translated into an image: Ringraziare (Give Thanks), Ripensare (Rethink), Rilanciare (Relaunch). It is explained, in fact:

“Ringraziare: We give thanks to God for the gift of missionary vocation which enable the sons of Don Bosco today to reach out to poor and abandoned youth in 134 countries.

Ripensare: This is an opportune occasion to rethink and develop a renewed vision on the Salesian Missions in the light of new challenges and new perspectives which led to new missiological reflections.

Rilanciare: We have not only a glorious history to remember and be grateful for, but also a great history still to be accomplished! We look to the future with missionary zeal and enthusiasm so that we may reach out to even more poor and abandoned youth”.

The attached file in five languages below the article specifies all the criteria and technical specifications. Each Province may participate with one project. The winner will be chosen by the Rector Major and announced in December 2023. A cash prize of €1,875 is awarded to the winner.


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