Rector Major's Commentary
on the 2021 Strenna
(ANS - Rome - December 30, 2020) – On December 29 the official commentary of the Rector Major on the 2021 Strenna for the Salesian Family, "Moved by hope: 'See, I am making all things new' (Rev 21.5)," was published.
Four days earlies, a video on the strenna was released. Together with the commentary, these are primary tools for the animation of the Salesian Family in the new year.
The commentary consists of 22 pages in its American English version, divided into 6 parts and ends with a prayer to Mary, Mother of Hope.
THE TEXT
Introduction
In every part of the world, in whatever country or religion, the “image of the year” that will remain impressed on everyone’s mind will be the one of an elderly man, dressed all in white, all alone in the wide expanse of St. Peter’s Square in Rome on a rainy afternoon toward sunset on March 27, 2020. The man was Pope Francis, who has never been alone like this while leading prayer, but at the same time never accompanied by all of humanity in quite the same way. With this gesture he reminded this world of ours, made up of different races, cultures, nations, and religions, that God is able to lead even the most disastrous and painful things to what is good. And he invited us to look compassionately at our poor faith.
What we have experienced over these last eleven months is, without a
doubt, a challenge that we have been faced with and that we cannot ignore as if
nothing has happened or as if it were somehow in the past.
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