{"id":27999,"date":"2026-01-06T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=27999"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:11:09","slug":"superiors-of-the-sdb-ile-and-fma-ilo-communities-meet-in-valdocco-with-the-rector-major-fr-fabio-attard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2026\/01\/06\/superiors-of-the-sdb-ile-and-fma-ilo-communities-meet-in-valdocco-with-the-rector-major-fr-fabio-attard\/","title":{"rendered":"Superiors of the SDB ILE and FMA ILO Communities Meet in Valdocco with the Rector Major, Fr. Fabio Attard"},"content":{"rendered":"

(ANS \u2013 Turin)<\/strong> – Fifty superiors of the SDB ILE and FMA ILO communities gathered in Valdocco (Turin) on 2 January 2 for a summit on educational leadership chaired by the Rector Major, Fr. Fabio Attard. The meeting, attended by Salesian rectors (SDB) and superiors of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) led by their respective Provincials, Fr. Roberto Dal Molin and Sr. Stefania Saccuman, focused on the prevention of pastoral burnout and the protection of charismatic identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first session, Fr. Fabio Attard reread the \u201cConfidential Reminders,\u201d a historic text sent by Don Bosco to the first rector, Fr. Michael Rua, in 1863. The analysis focused on the modernity of the founder\u2019s recommendations regarding personal care: \u201cAvoid austerity in food\u201d and \u201ceach night you will have seven hours of rest.\u201d The Rector Major updated these guidelines as an antidote to contemporary stress: \u201cAn exhausted superior cannot embody pastoral love. Self-care, far from being selfish, is an act of charity towards the young people entrusted to us.\u201d Mental and physical health is indicated not as a luxury, but as a \u201cnecessary condition\u201d for the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second focus of the day concerned the risk of \u201chorizontalism\u201d in educational works. Commenting on the post-Chapter letter \u201cMary arose and set out with haste,\u201d the Rector Major warned against the transformation of Salesian presences into mere service agencies: \u201cWe cannot allow ourselves to convert our mission to the sole task of an NGO or a non-profit organization.\u201d The challenge launched to local leaders is to overcome the logic of results and statistics, recovering the original synthesis of the charism: \u201cWe educate by evangelizing and we evangelize by educating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the meeting touched on the matter of \u201cconditional availability,\u201d criticising the tendency to commit oneself only in the face of immediate success or recognition. Salesian leadership, as emerged from the proceedings, must instead be based on a \u201cbalanced humanity\u201d capable of discernment, avoiding individualism or the search for personal affirmation obscuring the communal nature of the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(ANS \u2013 Turin) – Fifty superiors of the SDB ILE and FMA ILO communities gathered in Valdocco (Turin) on 2 January 2 for a summit on educational leadership chaired by the Rector Major, Fr. Fabio Attard. The meeting, attended by Salesian rectors (SDB) and superiors of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) led by their respective Provincials, Fr. Roberto Dal Molin and Sr. Stefania … Continuar leyendo Superiors of the SDB ILE and FMA ILO Communities Meet in Valdocco with the Rector Major, Fr. Fabio Attard<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":28002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31713,782003447,516714022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-wellness","category-rector-major","category-salesian-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2026-01-06-SDB-ILE-and-FMA-ILO-Communities-feature.jpg?fit=1600%2C875&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-7hB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27999","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=27999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28027,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27999\/revisions\/28027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}