{"id":6715,"date":"2023-05-06T10:35:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T17:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=6715"},"modified":"2025-04-25T18:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T01:52:40","slug":"the-trademark-of-the-salesian-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2023\/05\/06\/the-trademark-of-the-salesian-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trademark of the Salesian Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(ANS – San Crist\u00f3bal de La Laguna) – On the morning of May 3, the Rector Major, Father \u00c1ngel Fern\u00e1ndez Artime, arrived in Taco, one of the districts that make up the municipality of San Crist\u00f3bal de La Laguna, to meet with more than 200 young beneficiaries of the work of the \u201cFundaci\u00f3n Don Bosco\u201d at the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first meeting of his second day in Tenerife, the Rector Major was able to visit the territorial headquarters of the foundation to talk with more than 100 educators who carry out their work in the Social Education Platforms of the Salesian Province of Spain Maria Ausiliatrice (SMX).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accompanied by Fr. Juan Carlos P\u00e9rez Godoy, Councilor for the Mediterranean Region, Fr. \u00c1ngel Asurmendi, Superior of the SMX Province, Ignacio V\u00e1zquez, Director of the foundation, and Fr. Francisco Ruiz and Paco Jaldo, the Directors of Salesian houses on the island, the Rector Major learned about the residential care, socio-educational and socio-occupational insertion projects that the Salesian institution carries out among at-risk youth following Don Bosco\u2019s Preventive System. The foundation\u2019s activities, spread across three autonomous communities through more than 160 of the foundation\u2019s social projects, are characterized by comprehensive education and personalized accompaniment, with the person as the protagonist of his or her own process and a family climate as the framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, the Rector Major experienced a special moment with the real protagonists: over 100 young beneficiaries of the projects who waited impatiently, writing messages addressed to Fr. \u00c1.F. Artime, next to a large heart that manned the courtyard and bore one of Don Bosco\u2019s mottos, \u201cYou are thieves. You have stolen my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the occasion, Bamba, a young man from Senegal, shared his testimony of life and told how he discovered the work of the Salesian foundation and Don Bosco. And then Asari, Bego\u00f1a, Tayloa, and Mustafa picked up the baton and addressed their questions to the Rector Major: How do you \u201chook\u201d a young person who knows the Salesians and decides to stay? What does it feel like to succeed someone like Don Bosco? What can you bring to young people through this work? What to say to a young person who is on the street looking for a way out? To all of them, Don Bosco\u2019s 10th Successor responded with affability, making it clear that the \u201cfamily flavor\u201d is the hallmark of the Salesian heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI said yes because I love young people very much,\u201d began Fr. \u00c1.F. Artime, \u201cThis is the greatest peace I have as Rector Major. To be the Successor of Don Bosco is a very beautiful thing. None of the ten successors, as we read in various letters, ever felt worthy of this service. Don Bosco is too big, with a heart full of love for God and for young people. I feel small, but I try, together with all of us who form Don Bosco\u2019s family, to fulfill his dream.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe dreams you have, the great values that accompany you and the confidence in your possibilities are the real challenge,\u201d he then insisted, focusing on the person of each young man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo educators I say that of all the young people we can meet, the most vulnerable, those most at risk, those on the street… Anything we can do for them will be our priority,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the questions, two young people, Roc\u00edo and Jos\u00e9 Alberto, dedicated the song \u201cCoraz\u00f3n Salesiano\u201d by Nico Montero to him. The meeting ended, after the touching testimony of Salesian Jos\u00e9 Luis Aguirre, with the handing over of the heart \u201cstolen from Don Bosco\u201d and a video made by the young people loaded with messages and dreams. \u201cThank you very much, Don \u00c1ngel, for this time,\u201d concluded Ignacio V\u00e1zquez, Director of the Salesian Foundation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(ANS – San Crist\u00f3bal de La Laguna) – On the morning of May 3, the Rector Major, Father \u00c1ngel Fern\u00e1ndez Artime, arrived in Taco, one of the districts that make up the municipality of San Crist\u00f3bal de La Laguna, to meet with more than 200 young beneficiaries of the work of the \u201cFundaci\u00f3n Don Bosco\u201d at the Canary Islands. In the first meeting of his … Continuar leyendo The Trademark of the Salesian Heart<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":6719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[516714022],"tags":[35890],"class_list":["post-6715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salesian-world-news","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ca8a7cc0f812222a19ac0e1cc1d7ec23_l-1.jpeg?fit=655%2C426&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-1Kj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715","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=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6718,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions\/6718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}