MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR
We are witnesses to a living Gethsemane and Calvary. Let us hope also to see the 'Resurrection' of this country and its people.
«Imagining my Salesian confrere being a friend, a brother, and a father to them, waiting until that very late hour for the young man returning from work and offering him to join himself and two other educators for dinner, truly touched my heart. Again, I said to myself: Don Bosco would do the same».
"May the charity and sweetness of Francis de Sales guide me in everything." This was the resolution that Don Bosco made at the beginning of his life as a priest and educator. It is from this reference to St. Francis de Sales that Salesian pedagogy takes its name.
(ANS – Turin) -On the Feast Day of Don Bosco, the Rector Major and 10th Successor of Don Bosco at the head of the Salesian Congregation, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, delivers his message to young people.
My dear young people,
May my greeting reach each one of you with true affection and with all my heart from Valdocco, where we are celebrating the feast of our beloved Don Bosco, “Father and teacher of youth” - as St John Paul II declared.
I am writing this letter to you having just returned from praying for you in the Basilica before the Lord, before our Mother the Help of Christians, before Don Bosco, Mother Mazzarello and St Dominic Savio, the adolescent saint of the early years of the oratory here in Valdocco.