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Salesian Theme (Strenna) for 2014 2014 n. 2 Appreciating Two Popes Volume 95, n. 2 • Spring 2014 Fr. Thomas Dunne, SDB CONTENTS Fr. Thomas Prendiville, SDB Publishers 3 Strenna 2014 Fr. Michael Mendl, SDB Drawing upon Don Bosco’s Editor Spiritual Experience Joseph Rodriguez 6 Appreciating Two Popes Sr. Juanita Chavez, FMA Pope Benedict XVI’s Gifts Sr. Denise Sickinger, FMA to the Church Fr. John Itzaina, SDB The Franciscan Revolution Editorial Board 12 Family Life Matters Mary Kate Havranek Kid Pressure Leaves Little Room Business Manager to Grow Jo Ann Donahue (New Rochelle) Youth Culture in the ’10s 14 San Francisco Province Development Office Contemporary Youth Culture Challenges Parents, Ministers Distribution Graphic Designs by Mike Gasparre 17 Salesian Family News Layout & Design 20 Holiness in Don Bosco’s Style Century Direct Inc., Long Island City, NY 22 Around the Salesian U.S.A. Printing 26 Around the Salesian World Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Pope Francis exchange Christmas 31 Recently Deceased Salesians greetings with each other (L’Osservatore Romano ) Founded by St. John Bosco in 1877, Cover Art the Salesian Bulletin is the medium of communication, animation, and formation of the Salesian Family around the world, published in more than 50 editions. Salesian Copyright 2014 The Salesian Society, Inc. Bulletin U.S.A. is published quarterly by the Salesians of Don Bosco of the New Rochelle and San Francisco provinces. For free subscriptions and address updates in Eastern U.S., contact Salesian Bulletin, P.O. Box 639, New Rochelle, NY 10802-0639 or [email protected] . In Western U.S., contact Salesian Bulletin, www.salesians.org 1100 Franklin St., San Francisco, CA 94109 www.donboscowest.org or [email protected] . THIS MAGAZINE IS ALSO 2 AVAILABLE IN SPANISH. Strenna 2014 Drawing upon Don Bosco’s Spiritual Experience So as to Walk in Holiness By ANS Fr. Pascual Chavez’s last annual strenna, or theme, for the year is “Da mihi animas, cetera tolle.” Let us draw upon the spiritual experience of Don Bosco, in order to walk in holiness according to our specific vocation. “The glory of God and the salvation of souls.” The word strenna in Italian means, liter - ally, “gift.” The Sale - sian tradition of offering a strenna as a spiritual gift for the new year was begun in 1849 by Don Bosco himself, and it has always taken the form of a theme or practice for all the members of his family A to try to follow in the N year ahead. S For 2014, the Fr. Chavez presenting his commentary on the 2014 Strenna on New Year’s Eve. third year of preparation for the celebration of the bicentennial of meaning from his educational and pas - Don Bosco’s birth (1815-2015), the toral charity. Its model is Christ the Rector Major chose a topic that goes Good Shepherd; it finds its prayer and back to the source of the Salesian plan of life in Don Bosco’s motto Da charism by drawing on Don Bosco’s mihi animas, cetera tolle . Following this spirituality. program we discover ‘Don Bosco the The true “gift,” some would say, is mystic,’ whose spiritual experience is at not the three- or four-line theme but the the basis of our way of experiencing commentary on it that Don Bosco’s suc - Salesian spirituality today in the diver - cessor publishes on New Year’s Eve for sity of vocations which it inspires; and the entire Salesian Family. we too can have a strong experience of In this year’s commentary on the Salesian spirituality….” strenna, Fr. Chavez invites all members Fr. Chavez continues: “Behind of the Salesian Family “to draw from the everything, as the source of Don sources of Don Bosco’s spirituality, Bosco’s fruitful activity and his rele - Salesian Bulletin Spring 2014 3 point of arrival is holiness for every - one, each accord - ing to his or her own state in life. The second item which the Rector Major calls to our attention is pastoral charity as l l a r r the center and syn - i P thesis of Salesian w e h t spirituality. t a Through his dedi - M cation to the Boys at the Salesian work for street children in Hospet, India, lack desks for their school work, but they have an opportunity to go to school. young, Don Bosco wanted to commu - vance to us today, there is something nicate an experience of God to them. that we often miss, we his sons and Any spirituality aims at instilling char - daughters: his deep interior life, what ity in a Christian. Charity is the form we could call his ‘familiarity’ with God. and substance of all virtues, and what Who knows, but this may be the best constitutes and builds up the individ - thing of all that we have from him in ual. For Salesians, such charity is order to love him, call on him, imitate spelled out as pastoral charity—our him, and follow him as we encounter contemplation of Jesus the Good the Lord Jesus and get young people to Shepherd encourages us to practice do likewise.” “Da mihi animas, cetera tolle.” The point of departure for Don Bosco’s spirituality was the glory of God and the sal - vation of souls; the profound root of his interior life and his apostolic activity was his union with God; the instruments which realize the Salesian religious l o b and apostolic mis - a S sion are those k c i r t which translate in - a visible values into P More than 50 infants were baptized at Christmas Mass at the Salesian mission in visible works; the Juba, South Sudan. 4 Salesian Bulletin Spring 2014 e c n i v o r P n o d e l a H A M F Sr. Janet Keller with students at Villa Madonna School, Tampa. The third item that Fr. Chavez high - Finally, the Rector Major offers lights is how Salesian spirituality— some concrete tasks for the Salesian while having things in common which Family: getting to know Don Bosco’s are true for every vocation that draws spirituality better; practicing pastoral inspiration from that spirituality—is charity; proposing and communicating nevertheless experienced in particular Salesian spirituality according to the ways according to the specific nature diversity of our vocations; reading cer - of each Salesian group and each one’s tain texts by Don Bosco that are state of life: consecrated life, priestly sources of Salesian spirituality. ministry, lay faithful, family, and young Fr. Chavez concludes: “My first let - people. ter as Rector Major bore the title ‘Sale - Salesian youth spirituality consid - sians, be saints!’ It was a letter that I ers daily life as the place where we considered to be programmatic for my encounter God and is rooted in the time as Rector Major. I am happy that proclamation and experience of the my last letter written as successor of Risen Lord. It is joyful and optimistic. Don Bosco is a heartfelt invitation to It educates to friendship and personal drink deeply of his spirituality. We find relationship with the Lord Jesus, in here everything that I would like to live ecclesial communion and with Mary’s and propose to you, dear members of help, and matures as vocational choice the Salesian Family and young peo - and responsible service. ple.” Salesian Family groups involve The complete text of the strenna is many lay people in their mission and available at http://www.donboscow are called to experience a Salesian lay est.org/resources/letters-rector-major , spirituality. and a video commentary is available at Aware, then, that there cannot be http://www.sdb.org/en/Rector_Major/St youth ministry without family ministry, renna/Strenna_2014 . we are now committed to developing a Salesian spirituality for families. Salesian Bulletin Spring 2014 5 Appreciating Two Popes A year ago the Church underwent a startling papal transition. Pope Francis already seems to be making a profound mark on Catholics around the world, and on non-Catholics as well. Obviously, it is not possible to assess the final impact of his Petrine ministry only one year into it, and thus exactly how profound a transition occurred. A year after the transition, we review some of Francis’s steps and consider what impact they may have. A year after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, we offer a tentative assessment of what his ministry has meant for the Church. Pope Benedict XVI’s Gifts to the Church By Michael Mendl, SDB One of Benedict’s most lasting services in the papal office may well turn out to be how he left it, by volun - tary resignation when he found that he no longer had the rigorous physical or mental stamina that the office de - mands. Talk of papal resignation had surfaced from time to time in the past, e.g., when Pope Pius XII considered what to do if the Nazis were to invade o n u the Vatican and arrest him, and when r B Pope John Paul II’s frailties severely y e r f f handicapped him in his last years. But, e J as much as they hated him, the Nazis didn’t try to seize Pius, and John Paul “No words or gestures could have insisted that “a father cannot resign his demonstrated more powerfully that the position.” pope is not a mere figurehead, but But Benedict did resign, winning truly the leader of 1.2 billion people universal praise for his humility in around the world, than Pope Bene - leaving behind the power and the au - dict’s admission that a stronger man thority that he’d never wanted in the was needed to fill the role.” first place, for an act of service to the Another aspect of Benedict’s service Church that allowed Peter’s See to be was his teaching.
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