Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “”Like Don Bosco the educator, we offer young people the Gospel of joy through a pedagogy of kindness”. Second year of preparation for the Bicentenary of his birth”in “Acts of the General Council of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco”

This letter, written on the Birth of the Lord, urges fellow Congregation members to embrace the joy of encountering Christ during the Year of Faith. Despite health constraints, the writer actively participated in the Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization. The Synod emphasized the urgent need for renewed evangelization amidst contemporary challenges, highlighting the universal mission of the Church and the importance of fraternal communion. The letter concludes with a call to embrace evangelization with renewed zeal, aiming to revitalize Christian communities and share the Gospel with enthusiasm.

Contents:

• Premise: The Synod on “new evangelisation for the transmission of the faith”: reflections of the Rector Major who took part in this important event of the Church.
• Commentary on the Strenna 2013. Rediscovering the Preventive System.
• • Relaunching the “upright citizen” and the “good Christian”.
  • Returning to the young better prepared.
  • An education of the heart.

• Practical steps for the Salesian Family.
  • The ‘gospel of joy’.
  • The pedagogy of kindness.
  • Education is a matter of the heart.
  • The formation of the upright citizen and of the good Christian.
  • Salesian humanism.
  • Preventive System and Human Rights.
  • To be read.
• Conclusion.
• When you thought I wasn’t looking.

Reference time period: 2013

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB