Strenna 2023 title and guidelines presented
AS THE YEAST IN
TODAY’S HUMAN FAMILY
The lay dimension
in the family of Don Bosco
(ANS – Rome – July 28, 2022) - After consultation and discernment with the Salesian Family leaders, experts, and members of the general council, Fr. Angel Fernandez has unveiled the theme and guidelines of his strenna message for 2023: ”AS THE YEAST IN TODAY’S HUMAN FAMILY: The lay dimension in the Family of Don Bosco.”
In his presentation, Fr. Fernandez
immediately specifies that this strenna will have two target groups: not only
all groups of the Salesian Family but also “young children, adolescents, and
older youths wherever Don Bosco’s Family is to be found in the world,” because,
he explains, “in the light of what most characterizes our pedagogy and
spirituality, we intend to help children, especially adolescents and young adults,
to discover that each of them can be like the leaven of which Jesus speaks.”
At the same time, “for Don Bosco’s
Family it aims at being a clear and thought-provoking message directed to
discovering the lay dimension”; and specifically for consecrated members of the
Salesian Family, it is an invitation to be “leaven in the dough of the bread of
humanity” and “to live alongside one another, allowing ourselves to be enriched
by evangelical secularity.”
Leaven, an element also used
metaphorically by Jesus to present the Kingdom of God to the apostles, is “the
only living ingredient,” that element which is used in small quantities but which
“has the ability to influence, condition, and transform the whole batch of
dough,” says the Rector Major.
This is why the text proposes that
every member of the Salesian Family and young people should be leaven in the
world, spreading the Word and the Kingdom of God just as leaven transforms bread
dough.
The Rector Major’s reflection also
draws attention to the importance of the work of the laity in the works of the
Salesian Congregation, recalling that “well over 99% of the Church is formed by
lay people.... Imagine how the proportion increases if we consider and embrace
the whole world: the laity are the dough as well as the leaven of the Kingdom.”
The full text with the initial
guidelines for the Rector Major’s strenna message for 2023 is available in
Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French:
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- ITALIANO_-Strenna_2023_-__ITA.docx (109 Downloads)
- ENGLISH_-Strenna_2023_-_Presentazione_EN.docx (42 Downloads)
- ESPANYOL-AGUINALDO_2023_espanYol.docx (99 Downloads)
- EYTRENNE_2023_-_PREYSENTATION_-_FR.docx (18 Downloads)
- PORTOGHESE_-AGUINALDO_2023_PORT.docx (2 Downloads)
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