RMG - Strenna themes of the past 25 years

27 December 2022

(ANS - Rome) - This afternoon, December 27, the 2023 Strenna of the Rector Major will be presented; this year's theme: "AS THE YEAST IN TODAY'S HUMAN FAMILY. The Lay Dimension in the Family of Don Bosco." The moment of the presentation of the Strenna has accompanied the life of Salesian communities around the world since Don Bosco's time. The following are the themes of the Strennas of the past 25 years.

Fr. Juan E. Vecchi
1997 - With our gaze fixed on Jesus, the firstborn of many brothers, let us help young people to welcome Him in faith
1998 - "Blessed be God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us turn to Him with the love of children, to be with young people builders of fraternal solidarity
1999 - In hope, we have been saved: let us rediscover with young people the presence of the Spirit in the Church and in the world, to live and work with confidence in the perspective of the Kingdom
2000 - In the name of Christ, our peace, let us be reconciled
2001 - Christ the gift for all. As fruit of the jubilee, let us revive the missionary spirit and solidarity

Fr. Pascual Chávez Villanueva
2002 - "Duc in Altum": Put out into the high seas and cast your nets wide and deep
2003 - Let us make every family and community, the home and school of communion...
2004 - Let us propose wholeheartedly to all young people joy in the call to holiness... 
2005 - Rejuvenate the face of the Church, the Mother of our faith
2006 - Ensuring that special attention to the family, the cradle of life and love...
2007 - For a true culture of human life
2008 - Let us educate with the heart of Don Bosco
2009 - Let us commit ourselves to making the Salesian Family a vast movement of persons for the salvation of the young
2010 - In imitation of Don Rua, as authentic disciples and zealous apostles, let us bring the Gospel to the young
2011 Come and see
2012 - Let us make the young our life's mission by coming to know and imitate Don Bosco
2013 - "Rejoice in the Lord always: again, I say, rejoice" (Phil 4:4). Like Don Bosco the educator, let us offer young people the Gospel of joy through the pedagogy of kindness
2014 - "Da mihi animas, cetera tolle." Let us draw upon Don Bosco's spiritual experience to walk in holiness according to our specific vocation. "The glory of God and the salvation of souls."

Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime
2015 - Like Don Bosco, with the young, for the young!
2016 - With Jesus, let us journey together in an adventure of the Spirit!
2017 - We are family! Every home, a school of life and love
2018 - "Lord, give me this water" (Jn 4:15). Let us cultivate the art of listening and accompanying
2019 - "That my joy may be in you" (Jn 15:11). Holiness for you too
2020 - "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" (Mt 6:10). "Good Christians and upright citizens"
2021 - Moved by hope: "See, I am making all things new" (Rev. 21:5)
2022 - Do all through love, nothing through constraint (St. Francis de Sales) 

Source: sangiovannibosco.net

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