Jan-Feb-Mar
2012 AFW Ghana Liberia Nigeria Sierra Leone
The Relic of Don Bosco, as it gradually is going around the world on pilgrimage in preparation of the bicentenary of Don Bosco, has just completed its visit to AFW Province. Here Fr George as Provincial, gives us his thoughts and reflections which he shared with confreres at the start of the relic’s pilgrimage. We have been blessed with the visit of Don Bosco’s relic to AFW. Even though his physical presence was limited to Ghana and Nigeria, his mystical hand reaches out also to Liberia and Sierra Leone, to each community, Salesian, lay collaborator, child and youngster of our houses. The Relic of Don Bosco has just finished a two weeks programme in AFW. It has been a wonderful experience and we can already see the spiritual blessings that the Relic has brought to so many people. We were able to follow the “breaking news” of pictures and reports sent out by the different houses and the short videos of Michael Kroł –our talented “Media Man”- though the link to Vimeo.
Salesians and the Salesian Family as a whole I may say that we need the following graces that we have to present to Jesus through the hands of Don Bosco:
What are the graces we have asked God through the intercession of DB? This is what I asked the Salesians when we gathered together for morning prayer on the first morning of the Relic’s stay amongst us. What I shared with them I now share with all the communities; looking at the situation of the
The grace of making young people our life’s mission by knowing and imitating Don Bosco. The miracle of passing from a stage of admiration for Don Bosco to a stage of an active imitation. We have to become Don Bosco day by day by knowing him through LOVE more than through a theoretical knowledge of his history and spirituality. The grace of the witness of our communities to unity, peace and reconciliation. Don Bosco’s dream is that in our Communities nobody is known or called black or white, local or missionary, GhanaianNigerian-Liberian or Sierra Leonean, Igbo or Yoruba, Ashanti or Ewe, Mende or Timni... communities where we are all SALESIANS of DON BOSCO, people who share the same faith and the same vocation, the same spirit and mission of Don Bosco.
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