Naples, Italy - October 2023 - On Sunday 29 October, on the day of the liturgical memorial of Blessed Michael Rua, patron of the Salesian Province of Southern Italy, Superior Fr Gianpaolo Roma handed over the OPP or Salesian Overall Provincial Plan to the Salesians and lay people who share responsibility for the mission: a strategic plan of animation and governance that regulates the development and continuity of the province's decisions for the six-year period 2023-2029. "There are two guidelines that give life to this document," he writes in the introduction, "the challenge of a new development and continuity with the precious heritage of the past. Drawn up since 2021 and completed during the 27th Provincial Chapter, the OPP. was codified in the work of the previous Provincial Fr Angelo Santorsola with his Council, arriving after being seen and revised by communities at the final approval by the present Provincial Council in July 2023. Accompanying the document, the recipients also received a systematic collection of the provincial plans developed in recent years in the areas of Youth Ministry, Formation, Salesian Family and Economy. It represents a valuable "compass" to guide the Salesian mission, consecrated life and pastoral actions in the territories of southern Italy, Albania and Kosovo over these six years. "My hope," Fr Roma concludes, "is that this effort may be just that: a stimulus to till and sow the soil of our Province and our EPCs so that it may generate abundant fruit for the Kingdom." The OPP, with its documents, can be consulted online from the "Resources" section of the website www.donboscoalsud.it