Egidio Viganò – “Letter of the Rector Major” in “Acts of the Superior Council of the salesian society”

The Rector Major is preparing for the Easter celebration. His prayer is that everyone may benefit from their Lenten conversion and reconciliation, as well as their meditation on the passion and death of Jesus Christ. He also prays for the Easter and Pentecost of this Holy Year to strengthen their sense of worship and for the Holy Spirit to guide future capitulars in the task of drafting the definitive text of the Constitutions and Regulations. The Rector Major extends the good wishes of the members of the Superior Council gathered at the Generalate and involved in the preparatory stages of the upcoming General Chapter. Everyone is remembered in their prayers. Before sharing a few spiritual thoughts, the Rector Major has two news items to share.

Contents:

1. New Economer General
2. Beatification of Bishop Luigi Versiglia and Father Callisto Caravario

• Importance of suffering in a spirituality of the active life
• The Christian significance of suffering
• Frightening demands of sin
• The splendour of martyrdom
• Bloodless martyrdom in the spirit of Don Bosco
• The apostolic value of all suffering
• Care, respect and affection for our sick and suffering confreres

Reference time period: 1983

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB