Egidio Viganò – The Don Bosco centenary and our renewal

Contents:

• lntroduction
• A rapid look back over the celebrations: The Jubilee Year; enthusiastic participation
  by young people; Appreciation on the part of civil authorities; Studies and publications; Artistic cultural and sporting manifestations; Lived experiences in the Congregation; Vitality of the Salesian Family; lnterest of the Bishops and of so many diocesan and parochial communities; Wholehearted particlpation ot the Holy Father.
• Some priorities to be fostered: Our ecclesial dimension; The urgent need for the christian education of youth; The careful and competent development of a “Laity-project”; A more modern use of the means of social communication as a means of evangelization.
• The overriding impression: “an event of grace”.
• The primacy of an internal apostolic conviction.
• The surprising vitality of the Salesian Family.
• The Youth Movement.
• Lay involvement.
• The Marian dimension.
• Devotion to Don Bosco, the Saint.
• The two great commitment before us: the 1989 Strenna; the GC23.
• Conclusion.

Reference time period: 1989

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB