Strenna 2011 - Rector Major

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The Need For Vocation Ministry - Rector Major

After the Strenna for 2010, “Lord, we want to see Jesus,” about the urgent need to evangelise, the most logical and natural thing, it seemed to me, was to make a heartfelt appeal to the whole Salesian Family to feel with us SDB, the need for vocation ministry. In fact, we Salesians
“feel more strongly than ever the challenge of creating a vocational culture in every setting, such that young people may discover life as a call and that all Salesian ministry may be truly vocational.  >Read On

Strenna 2012 "Let us make the young our life’s mission by coming to know and imitate Don Bosco” is how Strenna 2012 reads. With it comes a quote from John’s Gospel (10:11) offering a biblical point of view: “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.”

“We need to study Don Bosco, and through the events of his life we must come to know him as an educator and pastor, a founder, guide, legislator,” Fr. Chavez states in the introduction to his brief presentation. In 2012, members of the Salesian Family will be called to discover and get to know the many-faceted figure of this saintly man from Turin.  >More