Quartely video messages of the Rector major - CARI CONFRATELLI (3) - June 2015
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My Dear Confreres, |
I greet you on a special day. Today is 24 May. I am in Don Bosco's rooms,
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The whole environment speaks to me and to all of us about Don Bosco and about Mary Help of Christians, |
It speaks to us of the great gift of this charism that the Lord has given us in Don Bosco; |
and it is also a very special day since it is the Feast of Pentecost. |
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I address you, as I have done on other occasions, with great emotion, |
It is my desire to reach each of my brother Salesians in the world, |
and by extension, all our brothers and sisters of the Salesian Family. |
This is an opportunity to communicate and to share, so that we may really feel that we are united. |
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I must tell you that the last month and a half was a time of special intensity, |
because of the journeys of animation that I made to several Provinces. |
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I recently visited Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador; and after four days in Rome, |
I have had an opportunity to make a long trip to Asia and some parts of Oceania, |
Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji ... We were also in New Zealand, Samoa, Australia ... |
... I am telling you this only to point out something very special: |
This special element is the fraternity that I have found in all the places I was able to visit over the past year and more. |
It is a beautiful reality of communion that we have in our congregation:
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…. richness, diversity, variety ... but a sense of community that makes it really special.
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A fraternity that, I must say, extends to our entire Salesian Family. |
Whenever I was in the presence of our sisters, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, |
who are in almost as many places as we are, there was a fraternity and closeness that was really touching; |
so also with many other groups of our Salesian Family, |
and in some provinces we met 12, 13, 14 groups. |
For all this I really thank God. |
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In some areas of the Congregation what we might call the academic year is coming to an end; |
It is definitely a time when people are exhausted, from many activities and a lot of work, |
but it is also a very exciting time, because we can continue to say: |
the Lord continues to do wonderful things for young people ... sometimes through our humble mediation.
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And finally, just as something I would like you to take to heart, |
I would like to share with you this thought: |
My dear confreres, I am convinced, |
and my meeting with all of you throughout the world and what I have come to know of our communities tells me, |
that neither a good organization nor good management of our works, |
nor even having everything planned is the guarantee of good pastoral work. |
As without doubt you know, as well as I do or better than I do, the key is in what we are and how we live. |
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I make an appeal to you from here, on this special day, |
that each of us, in the presence of Don Bosco and Mary Help of Christians, in fidelity to the Lord, |
may continue to say a Yes that does not come from management or even from an act of generosity;
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but from a Passion for our Vocation that allows us to transmit, |
I would say through all the pores of our skin, what we are; |
and that it will be seen that what we do, and often do well, |
is being done for something, and especially for Someone. |
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I promise you my prayer to Mary Help of Christians and through the intercession of Don Bosco, |
that he may present everything to the Lord and that it may be a blessing for our Congregation and our Salesian Family. |
A warm embrace with much love to all! |