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Giving attention to the family, the cradle of
life and love and where one first learns to
become human
Reasons for and some notes on the 2006 STRENNA
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Child, why have you treated us like this? Look,
your father and I have been searching for you
with great anxiety.
Why were you searching for me? Did you not know
that I must be in my Fathers house?.
But they did not understand what he said to them.
Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth
and was obedient to them.
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His mother stored up all these things in her
heart.
And Jesus increased in wisdom, and in years and
in divine and human favour (Lk 2 48-52)
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150 years after the death of Mamma Margaret,
mother of the educative family created by Don
Bosco at Valdocco, we renew our commitment
Ensuring that special attention be given to the
family, the cradle of life and love and where one
first learns to become human.
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Beginning with the positive lived experience of
family life and spirit in order to arrive at
family today as a mission field.
This is so that the lived charismatic experience
can shed light on the reality and show us a way
of acting which, from an educational and pastoral
perspective, will always be at the benefit of
young people and society.
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Mamma Margarets person is much loved, admired
and venerated by all the groups in the Salesian
Family, anxiously awaiting her Beatification.
The 150th anniversary of her death is a time when
we can make her better known.
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Especially for the role she played in Don Boscos
human and Christian formation.
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Her motherly presence in Valdocco certainly did
much to achieve the atmosphere of familiarity
that existed there.
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For us, then, family is above all a charismatic
experience before it becomes a mission field, a
lived experience before becoming an apostolate.
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In his pastoral programme for the Church at the
beginning of the Third Millennium, John Paul II
made the family one of his priority issues.
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At a time in history like the present, special
attention must also be given to the pastoral care
of the family, particularly when this institution
is facing a radical and widespread crisis (NMI,
47).
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Benedict XVI too gives great importance to this
reality One crucial question that demands of us
the maximum pastoral attention
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This is a theme already taken up the the Common
Mission Statement of the Salesian Family
The members of the Salesian Family assume a
specific commitment for giving dignity and
solidity to the family, so that it becomes, in an
ever more evident manner, a small Church, a
domestic Church (art. 17 and art. 18).
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Besides, in 2006, providentially, we have the
25th anniversary of Familiaris Consortio, which
will help guide us in relaunching our ministry to
families.
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The atmosphere of secularisation affects its
ability to justify its proper nature and to carry
out its mission on behalf of society.
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Different models of family, each having equal
rights with the other
to the extent where it appears there is no
longer any objective point of reference.
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Some pharisees came, and to test him they asked
Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? He
answered them What did Moses command you? They
said Moses allowed a man to write a certificate
of dismissal and to divorce her. Jesus said to
them Because of your hardness of heart he wrote
this commandment for you .
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But from the beginning of creation God created
them male and female for this reason a man shall
leave his father and mother and be joined to his
wife,
and the two will become one flesh. Therefore what
God has joined together let no-one separate (Mk
10 2-9).
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Here we have a text which throws much light on
things, because it makes us see Jesus reasoning,
in the context of the Creators original plan.
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The strenna is accompanied by a Pastoral proposal
for Salesians