{"id":2785,"date":"2020-03-18T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2025-04-25T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:12:43","slug":"pope-francis-to-the-salesians-do-dream-and-make-others-dream-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2020\/03\/18\/pope-francis-to-the-salesians-do-dream-and-make-others-dream-as-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis to the Salesians: \u201cDo dream \u2013 and make others dream as well!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

(ANS \u2013 Rome \u2013 March 17, 2020)\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Pope Francis\u2019s closeness to the Salesian Family is well-known: the numerous ties with several Salesians meaningful to his life, the school year he spent at the Salesian school of Ramos Mejia, his devotion to Mary Help of Christians, etc. But in the message he sent to the participants in the 28th Salesian General Chapter, Pope Francis amazes for his intimate and profound knowledge of Don Bosco\u2019s charism. Thus, speaking with familiarity, as if it were a simple \u201cgoodnight\u201d in the oratory, he helps to provide the answer to the chapter\u2019s question: \u201cWhat kind of Salesians for today\u2019s young people?\u201d For the Argentine pontiff, the answer is, \u201cThe Salesian of the 21st century is a man full of hope because he knows that his center is in the Lord, able to make all things new.\u201d<\/p>\n

After rejoicing at the fact that the general chapter was celebrated in Valdocco \u2013 from which he also derives the invitation never to forget the \u201cyouthful noise and the chattering of the oratories,\u201d especially of those who find themselves \u201clike sheep without a shepherd,\u201d the Holy Father invites each son of Don Bosco to \u201ccultivate a contemplative attitude, able to identify and discern the crucial points,\u201d which he will then be able to show and will open for other dreams that this world fails to offer.<\/p>\n

Taking Don Bosco as a model, the Pope indicates to the Salesians a religious model incapable of remaining neutral or inert in the face of events: a Salesian, we could say with reference to the 2020 Strenna, who lives the politics of the Our Father<\/em>, who comes down to reality to bring reality toward<\/em> God; a Salesian neither clerical nor rigorist, but rather a consecrated person who does not choose to separate himself from the world to seek holiness, but lets himself be questioned and consulted, and chooses how and which <\/em>world to live in.<\/p>\n

The world of the Salesians is that of the young, and how to live in it is simply together<\/em>: \u201cThose encountered by Don Bosco yesterday and the Salesians today are not mere recipients or end receivers of a strategy planned in advance, but living protagonists of the oratory yet to be fulfilled,\u201d adds the Pontiff.<\/p>\n

He also spoke of the special figure of the coadjutor brother. He said: \u201cYour consecration is first and foremost the sign of a gratuitous love of the Lord and for the Lord in his young people, which is not primarily defined by a ministry, a function, or a particular service, but through a presence. The first call is to be a joyful and free presence among young people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the ideas he offers for the future journey of the Congregation, Pope Francis also underlines the gift of the female presence in Salesian works, from Mama Margaret onwards: a presence capable of transmitting the dimension of hospitality, an affective \u2013 as well as effective \u2013 presence, and for this to be valued \u201cas an actor who is not auxiliary, but rather constitutive of your presences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, observing the universal presence of the Salesian Family, its missionary reach, the attention always paid to the inculturation of the Gospel, Pope Francis encourages Salesians \u201cto preserve the wealth of the many cultures in which you are immersed without trying to \u2018standardize\u2019 them.\u201d On the contrary, \u201cin this way the Salesian spirit, far from getting lost in a uniformity of tones and nuances, will acquire a more beautiful and attractive expression…. It will be able to express itself in \u2018dialect.\u2019\u201d And it will also be able to speak, with the same naturalness and authority, even in the languages \u200b\u200bof digital courtyards, in \u201cthe widespread (and necessary) \u2018ministry of the screen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pope\u2019s conclusion is almost a hymn to Don Bosco and his dreams for young people, and in particular those most in need: \u201cDream of open houses, fruitful and evangelizing; homes that allow the Lord to manifest to many young people his unconditional love and allow you in return to enjoy the beauty to which you have been called. Do dream \u2013 and not just for yourselves and for the good of the Congregation, but for all young people without strength, deprived of the light and comfort of friendship with Jesus Christ, without a community of faith that sustains them, devoid of a horizon of meaning and life. Do dream \u2013 and make others dream as well!\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(ANS \u2013 Rome \u2013 March 17, 2020)\u00a0\u2013 Pope Francis\u2019s closeness to the Salesian Family is well-known: the numerous ties with several Salesians meaningful to his life, the school year he spent at the Salesian school of Ramos Mejia, his devotion to Mary Help of Christians, etc. But in the message he sent to the participants in the 28th Salesian General Chapter, Pope Francis amazes for … Continuar leyendo Pope Francis to the Salesians: \u201cDo dream \u2013 and make others dream as well!\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":2786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20310044,516714022],"tags":[35890,782003449],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-province-news","category-salesian-world-news","tag-featured","tag-salesian-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3ee8845a857c0f63769de05bc785e0bc_xl.jpg?fit=1024%2C1336&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-IV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}