The Rector Major’s message to young people of the Salesian Youth Movement

Today, 31 January, feast of St John Bosco, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, the tenth successor of Don Bosco, with a significant message exhorts young people to renew their social commitment to live as true leaven in the human family. He proposes four areas of intervention: service to human life, promotion of family values, defence of human rights and children's rights, respect and care for creation. He invites young people to be in today's human family - leaven, salt and light. He urges young people to embrace the commitment to build a more just and fraternal world, and to use their best strengths and positive energies to realise the dream that God has for each one.

MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR Fr Ángel Fernández Artime

I think it has been many years since I have heard that expression from any young person, in such a casual context, and in the presence of his classmates (since some others had approached as we were speaking).

THE MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR, Don Ángel Fernández Artime

This year more than ever before, we realize the truth of these words of Isaiah: “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: to them that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, light is risen.”