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Newsletter for Salesian Missionary Animation
A Publication of the Missions Sector for the Salesian Communities and Friends of the Salesian Missions
Dear friends,
Every year new missionaries go
to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus, in Rome. It is the home of the
Sacred Heart, constructed by our dear
Father Don Bosco with his sweat and
blood. During this month consecrated
to Him, let us all go there in spiritual
and missionary pilgrimage from all con-
tinents.
Every house of formation in the
Congregation is dedicated to the Sa-
cred Heart. He must also reign in the
soul of every missionary ad gentes. Let
every Salesian be not robbed of the
missionary fire of the Heart of Jesus! It
is the most valuable patrimony of every
Salesian Province!
Contemplating and invoking the
Sacred Heart of Jesus, many could ex-
perience the missionary call ad gentes.
In fact, he tells us: “the hour is coming
when whoever kills you will think he is
offering service to God. And they will
do this because they have not known
the Father, nor me” (Jn 16: 2-3).
Thus, the Heart of Jesus is seeking col-
laborators who want to help Him so
that He and the Father may be known
in all and "six" continents (certainly!,
including the digital one!) Take cour-
age!
Fr. Guillermo Basañes SDB
Councillor for the Missions
10 years of Project Europe
On 29 and 30 April 2015 a meeting of the Salesian missionaries present in the Province of Hungary
(UNG) since 2005 took place at Péliföldszentkereszt. Hungary was the first province to receive missionaries
of Project Europe. Ten years later, the meeting served as a good opportunity to share and evaluate experi-
ences, and to look to the future.
In their sharing the missionaries said that the initial reception by the Hungarian confreres, the pres-
ence of a spiritual guide, a confrere who served as a mediator for the newcomers and the chance to make a
serious study of the language all served to facilitate their integration into the Province. They also recog-
nised the enormous effort made by the Hungarian Salesians to make the new missionaries feel that they are
an integral part of the life and activity of the Province.
In the light of their experience, the missionaries drew up a profile of future missionaries in Hungary:
They should have knowledge of an international language, preferably English. They should arrive after the
post-novitiate because the period of practical training
helps in their inculturation and their gradual mastery
of the language. They need good physical resistance
to cold and a strong spiritual life. They also noted
that it is important that the missionaries come from
different countries so as to make the intercultural
communities of the Province a truly prophetic frater-
nity.
It was reiterated, finally, that the missionaries
should attach great importance to their spiritual life
and take care not to slip into a secularised lifestyle,
because secularised Europe has absolutely no need of
secularised missionaries!
Today in Europe Salesian missionaries work in
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Hungary,
Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Ukraine and
Meeting of 58 missionaries in Europe at Valdocco
the United Kingdom.
from 31 October to 3 November 2013
