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Intouch 2019-0108 USA WEST PROVINCE NEWSLETTER • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 8TH, 2019 the return of our young people. I am sure our Parishes are taking a breather from the hectic Christmas activities and large crowds, before getting ready to celebrate our celebration of Don Bosco’s feast in a the traditional midnight Mass which few weeks on January 31. was at 10pm. I presided at the bilingual Mass (English and Spanish). This year our Rector Major, Fr. Angel The Mass was well prepared and the Fernandez Artime, has given us our Church beautifully decorated. Thank new “Strenna” or Theme for 2019: you to the Corpus Christi Community “So that my joy may be in you” (John for their hospitality and the 15:11) HOLINESS FOR YOU TOO. dedicated ministry to the people of Hopefully, you have been able to that area. access the commentary and the video on the Internet outlining this Christmas Day was relatively quiet. new theme and Fr. Angel’s message But, at 3pm, we joined together with to the Salesian Family. We Salesians around 40 Salesians from the North can boast of having 168 Saints, for a wonderful dinner and time Blesseds, Venerables and Servants of together hosted by the Richmond God. We have 9 Saints, 118 Community of Salesian High and Blesseds, 17 Venerables and 24 Novitiate. Our heartfelt THANKS go Servants of God. These titles to Fr. John Itzaina, Director and his describe the different stages leading Dear Salesian Family, community for hosting so many of us. up to Canonization. The evening included Hors Happy New Year to all! I hope all of d’oeuvres, a delicious meal of prime Last year Pope Francis presented us you had a beautiful Christmas and a rib and Salmon, great deserts and a with an Apostolic Exhortation called great start of a new year. You were in fun and entertaining game called “Gaudete et Exsultate,” “Rejoice my prayers both at Christmas and as “White Elephant,” which consists of and be Glad.” It focused on our call we began 2019. getting a number, picking a gift from to holiness. Following Pope Francis’ under the tree and stealing gifts from example and exhortation, Fr. Angel I spent Christmas at the Provincial each other as part of the game. It also wished to exhort the whole House with our small of community was a fun evening, and we all left that Salesian Family to listen and follow of seven members. On Christmas evening quite content with the that call or vocation to holiness. Our Eve, the community gathered for an beautiful time we had together and Salesian holiness is lived out in a style early dinner at a local restaurant and grateful for all the hard work put into which is made flesh in our present returned to the house to open our organizing such an enjoyable time and place (Pope Francis’ gifts from our KK (Kris Kringle). We evening. Special thanks to our main Apostolic Exhortation is also very spent some time enjoying what each cooks, Fr. Joe Nguyen, Br. Al Vu and Salesian and down to earth). If you of us had gotten from whoever Br. Jhonni Chamorro. have seen the video with the Rector picked our name and also sharing Major, put out by the some stories of our family traditions. By now our schools have begun their communications department, Fr. Later that evening, I joined the new semester with staff retreats, Angel begins his commentary and Corpus Christi Parish Community for in-service days and preparation for presentation in a train station, right in INTOUCH JANUARY 8TH, 2019 1 the midst of young people and We admired their courage or life of Salesian Tree has been remarkable in ordinary folks. The Rector Major discipline and penance or purity, etc. the number of holy men and women writes, “It is not about a holiness for But, Pope Francis and our Rector we can count as saints. Fr. Angel the heroic few or for exceptional Major, quoting other Popes, present gives us a list at the end of his written people, but about an ordinary way of to us a holiness within our reach. commentary. It is proof that Don living an ordinary Christian life: a way Ordinary men and women are Bosco’s Salesian spirituality and style of living Christian life rooted in the presented, who although not has borne fruit and continues to do present day with the dangers, the officially canonized, live lives of so. I wish to end with a quote taken challenges and the opportunities fidelity and goodness, accepting from one of Fr. Pascual Chavez’ first that God offers us as life unfolds.” their sinfulness, weaknesses and letters: “My dear brothers and sisters (Strenna 2019 HOLINESS FOR YOU struggles in the area of virtues. They I can confidently state that the TOO). The call to holiness is really a are our Mothers, Fathers, greatest and the most pressing need call to radical love. St. John of the grandmothers, our aunts, our uncles, that we have today in our Salesian Cross is often quoted as saying, “In teachers, priests and “next-door world is not to do more things, not to the twilight of our lives we will saints” to repeat a phrase coined by plan or replan initiatives, to open judged by our love.” What Pope Pope Francis. And, Pope Benedict new foundations…but rather, to Francis and Fr. Angel seem to say is XVI expresses this sentiment well share what our lives individually and that our lives are a call and vocation when he wrote: “I should like to add collectively communicate, our way of to love. That is what really matters. that for me it is not only the great living the Gospel which develops and This love must be made flesh and Saints that I love and know well who expands in time as the continuation made visible in our daily lives no are the “sign-posts,” but also the of the way Jesus lived.” matter where we are. Jesus made simple saints, that it to say the good the Father’s love manifest in his life people that I see in my life, who will Tomorrow I leave for San Antonio, by what he said and did. Don Bosco never be canonized. They are Texas for a Salesian Family Day also made God’s love manifest in his ordinary people, one might say, with- sponsored by the Salesian Sisters. I love for the young. For us holiness is out any signs of heroism, but in will also visit our parish, San Luis Rey, living our lives to the full, making love every-day goodness I see the truth of in Laredo. Next week we have two manifest in different ways and always the faith.” (Benedict XVI days of Provincial Council Meetings in a spirit of joy and gratitude. Catechsisis at the General Audience and on the following weekend, I plan on 13 April 2011). on visiting our brothers in the Cross is often quoted as saying, “In post-novitiate in Orange, New the twilight of our lives we will This month of January is sometimes Jersey. And, do not forget to pray for judged by our love.” What Pope referred as a Salesian month because all of the youth gathered in Panama Francis and Fr. Angel seem to say is of the feast of St. Francis de Sales City for World Youth Day (22-27). that our lives are a call and vocation and St. John Bosco. But it is also to love. That is what really matters. called a Salesian month because of Let us give thanks to God for this new This love must be made flesh and the number of Salesian saints we year with all the possibilities which made visible in our daily lives no remember and celebrate: January 8, will be offered to us. I encourage us matter where we are. Jesus made Blessed Titus Zeman, January 15, to reflect on the strenna on holiness the Father’s love manifest in his life Blessed Aloysius Variara, January 22, and make sanctity something by what he said and did. Don Bosco Blessed Laura Vicuña, January 24, St. personal and fully alive in our also made God’s love manifest in his Francis de Sales, January 30, Blessed particular lives and environments. love for the young. For us holiness is Bronislao Markiewicz, January 31, St. All Salesian Saints, pray for us! living our lives to the full, making love John Bosco. I would not be manifest in different ways and always surprised if before long every month With warm regards and gratitude, in a spirit of joy and gratitude. would be considered a Salesian month because of the long list of In reflecting on Pope Francis’ those considered Salesian saints. Apostolic Exhortation and Fr. Angel’s And, the list continues to grow. commentary on the strenna, I was struck by the openness and wide I encourage you and myself to vision of those presented as models continue to reflect on what it means of “lives of holiness.” Many of us to be saints. Our Baptism is meant grew up reading and learning of roles to bear fruit, to be the visible image models of sanctity which were of Jesus in the world, manifested in unattainable. These were men and so many ways. How beautiful when women, young and old, who were this image is clearly seen in our too perfect or too “other worldly.” communities. The history of our INTOUCH JANUARY 8TH, 2019 2 Christmas Giving St. Bridget Chinese Catholic Church Cooperators and candidates support St.
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