His reflection on hope is inspired on the one hand by the "Post-Chapter Reflections" delivered by the Rector Major to guide the Congregation in the next six years, and on the other by the Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI Spe Salvi who, also through the history of Saint Josephine Bakhita, offers a great testimony of how to live hope.
Don Bosco himself, several times, invites us to exercise Christian hope. “I dwelt on two places, very much ours, very Salesian,” Fr Basañes explains, “where I believe we are called to live hope: one is friendship and the other is industriousness.”
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