(ANS - Vatican City – July 23) – On Friday, July 20, Rector Major Fr. Angel Fernandez Artime,
accompanied by Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni, postulator general, met Cardinal Angelo
Amato, SDB, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, at the dicastery’s
offices. Cardinal Amato’s term of office ends on August 31.
Fr. Angel Fernandez Artime and Cardinal Angelo Amato
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In a very friendly setting, the Rector Major
expressed thanks to Cardinal Amato from the Salesian Congregation and the
Salesian Family for the service he has been doing with passion and generosity
for the past ten years. More specifically, he spoke of the increased awareness
in the Salesian Family of the patrimony of holiness that flourishes through Don
Bosco’s charism.
For his part, the cardinal recalled the pastoral
value that the causes of beatification and canonization represent for the
Church and for a religious family like ours, recalling how Don Bosco was not
afraid to present the high goal of holiness to young people, offering concrete
models who had grown up in the Oratory at Valdocco. In particular, the
deepening of the spiritual experience of the eminent members of our Family is a
decisive element for understanding and developing the mission. In fact, in them
we find our charism expressed in its most genuine form and its finest
implementation, whether we’re speaking of the following of Jesus Christ and of
educational and pastoral action.
Don Bosco, in fact, was not only personally a great saint, but he was also an exceptional teacher of holiness, proposing it to his boys as a joyful and accessible lifestyle and making it almost “breathe” in the environment of Valdocco. In Don Bosco these two aspects – personal holiness and commitment to educating young people to holiness – have been one single entity; nor can they can exist for us without each other.
Don Bosco, in fact, was not only personally a great saint, but he was also an exceptional teacher of holiness, proposing it to his boys as a joyful and accessible lifestyle and making it almost “breathe” in the environment of Valdocco. In Don Bosco these two aspects – personal holiness and commitment to educating young people to holiness – have been one single entity; nor can they can exist for us without each other.
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