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Letter from Rome
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Letter from Rome
Written May 10, 1884 Narrates the dream I had in
two nights
Introdution The dream of the first night
Dialogue with Valfré The Oratory before
1870 Dialogue with Buzzetti The Oratory in
1884 Cause of the problem Possibile
solution Advice for the Salesians
The dream of the second night Dialogue
with Buzzetti Recommendation for the
young. Final considerations
Preparation for the feast of Mary Help of
Christians
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Letter from Rome
Introduction
Present or far away, I was thinking of you I have
only one desire, that you are happy here on earth
and in eternity I am not happy to be far away
from you I love you tenderly in Christ Jesus You
are the only, and continue to be, the thought of
my heart
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Letter from Rome
The Oratory in 1870
...It seems I was still in the old
Oratory...

• Life, movement, entertainment
• Youth taken care of by a priest
• A seminarian with another group playing.
• Singing, laughing
• Between the youth and their teachers regins
  cordiality and
• confidence.

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Letter from Rome
The Oratory in 1870
...I was surprised, Valfré said to me...

• Familiarity brings love
• Love brings confidence
• Then opens the sincere hearts of the young
• They know that they are loved there

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Letter from Rome
The Orarory in 1884
...Do you want to see the youth who are in the
Oratory?...

• I was no longer hearing joyful shouting or songs
• On the faces of the young people there was
  saddness
• They were lonely, with depressive thoughts
• Coldness towards the sacraments, ingratitude

...
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... I was very sad
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Letter from Rome
The Oratory in 1884
...How could these youths be loved?...
With love
...l work for my youth, I suffer for them,
The salesians dedicate their whole time for
the young...
All these are not enough...
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Letter from Rome
The Oratory in 1884
Is not enough to love
Let the young not only be loved,
But let them understand that, in the oratory,
there is love.
Is not enough to love
Is not enough to love
Is not enough to love
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Letter from Rome
Advice to the Salesians
...if you can no longer do this work ...
Why cant your Salesians become your
successors?

H o w ?

• by loving that which the youth love
• gain their trust, be fathers, brothers
• be near them wherever, tell them good words
• only through this way, you can overcome any
  difficulty.

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Letter from Rome
Advice to the Salesians

• Exact observance of the rules
• Day that ends with Good Night

How?
to gain back

• Days full of love and confidence
• Days of mutual tolerance for the love of
• Christ
• Days of hearts open to simplicity and
• warmth

today?
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Presence of an animator among the youth
Letter from Rome today
God calls us to be

• A community for and with the young
• House and school for comunion
• Physical presence of a friend, active,
  witnessing
• Develop particular human and baptismal vocation

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Presence of an animator among the youth
Letter from Rome today
Be a presence that welcomes and builds communion
Be a presence that educates and evangelizes
Be a presence that accompanies and offers
vocational proposals
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Presence of an animator among the youth
Letter from Rome today
Be a presence which welcomes and builds communion

• Being a direct presence, welcoming, free
• Being the heart of communion between the
• young and lay collaborators
• Being the animating presence in the area

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Presence of an animator among the youth
Letter from Rome today
Be a presence that educates and evangelizes

• Creating an ambient of strong spiritual
• strength
• Assuming the educative-pastoral duty in a
• reality of misery and injustice
• Working with projects and processes

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Presence of an animator among the youth
Letter from Rome today
Be a presence that accompanies and makes
vocational proposals

• Take seriously the vocational growth and
• guide it
• Make the CEP a place for guiding the youth
• Put into practice the methodology of
• acompaniment and of vocational proposal

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For us, it has to do with the originality of the
Congregation, to go into the essentials, to
re-write the Letter from Rome of 1884. Let us
return to Don Bosco and turn to the youth!.
Father Pascuale Chávez Rector Major
Oginal - Salesians from Madrid,Spain
En.Trad. Sister John Bosco
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