Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy - 14 September 2023 - Returning to the origins to look to the future: moved by this intuition, young Salesian students at the Crocetta went on a two-day journey to the places of John Bosco's childhood at Colle Don Bosco, to enter the new year and begin to think together about their formation journey. Today, 65 Salesians of 22 different nationalities live at the Crocetta community. These days were an opportunity for a grateful memory of last year and the summer experiences, to cast a first glance at the future, to look at the formation journey ahead. The formation team invited the young Salesian students to reflect, in this bicentenary year of the Dream at Nine Years of age, on three guiding words to make God's dream concrete for them: asceticism, trust, generosity. The days ended with a pilgrimage from Colle to Castelnuovo, to follow in the footsteps of Fr Cafasso - who accompanied Don Bosco in his delicate years of formation - and to entrust their journey to the Madonna del Castello (Our Lady of the Castle), to whom Mamma Margaret also entrusted John Bosco.

Source: Salesianicrocetta.it