Bosco Flash CAMBODIA - Strenna 2019: #Holiness for you, too! - March 2019
I offer my public acknowledgement of all Provincials who have sought to choose a Delegate for communication in the province, with a team, aware that they form an essential part of the formative, evangelising and educative mission of the Province (Cf. AGC 411). Fraternally in Don Bosco - Fr Filiberto González Plasencia
Holiness for all - Our Lenten reflection As Salesians, our Lenten Season 2019 is inspired by the invitation of the Rector Major’s Strenna “Holiness for you too.” It is the golden time to reflect on this simple invitation by the successor of Don Bosco and to share it with our children, youth, lay partners and families.
Fr Ángel Strenna
on
the
Missionary holiness, and the youth of the saints The missionary holiness of the Salesian charism, (is) expressed in a notable number of men and women, consecrated and lay, who evidence the proclamation of the Gospel, the inculturation of the faith, the advancement of women, the defence of the rights of the poor and of indigenous populations, and the foundation of local Churches. Deeply impressive is the fact that a very large proportion of the brothers and sisters of our Salesian Family who are on the way toward recognition of their heroic virtues and their holiness are missionaries: Blessed Maria Romero Meneses, FMA; Blessed Maria Troncatti, FMA; Venerable Vincent Cimatti. The Church gazes at the sky of holiness and sees an increasingly large and bright constellation of young men and women, adolescents and young saints and blesseds who, ever since the time of the first Christian communities, have endured until our time. When the Church invokes them as our patrons, she indicates them to young people as references for their existence.” In various surveys including those in
3
