Cagliero 11 - Agosto 2010 ing


Cagliero 11 - Agosto 2010 ing

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Newsletter for Salesian Missionary Animation
THE MISSIONARY DREAMS OF DON BOSCO / 3
Dear Sale-
sian mis-
sionaries
and friends of the Sale-
sian mission!
A cordial greeting during
my visits of animation to
the Provinces of South Asia!
The contemplation of the
missionary heart of Don
Bosco leads us to rediscover
this month its third mission-
ary dream that brings us in
Africa, Asia and America. The
exclamation of Don Bosco
«Why do I see so few Sale-
sians? » remains valid today.
Let us share the dreams of
our Father with our youth
and with lay people who are
involved in our contexts. The
harvest is plentiful but the
workers are never enough!
Fr. Václav Klement, SDB
Councillor for the Missions
A Great Harvest Awaits the Salesians
if They Work with Humility and Temperance!
In the night Between January 31 and February 1, 1885 Don Bosco had a third
missionary dream similar to the one he had in 1883. The next day he narrated it
to Fr. Lemoyne who immediately wrote it down. [The whole text is found in MB
XVII, 299-305; http://sdl.sdb.org (= biblioteca digitale salesiana)].
«I thought I was
accompanying
the missionaries
on their journey
… At the far end
of one very long
road which came
from
the
direction of Chile,
I saw a house
where there
were many Salesians engaged in scientific pursuits, practices of piety, and
various trades, crafts and agricultural activities. To the south lay Patagonia. In
the opposite direction I could see in one single glance all our houses in the
Argentine Republic. I could also see Paysandú, Las Piedras, Villa Colón in
Uruguay; I could see Brasile … Where are we? I asked pointing to this territory.
We are in Mesopotamia, my interpreter said …
I was standing motionless in the prairie, scanning all those interminable roads,
and contemplating quite clearly, but inexplicably, all the places the Salesians
were then and were going to be later. How many magnificient things I saw! I
saw each individual school. I saw as if they were all concentrated in one place,
all the past, present and future of our missions. Since I saw all of it as a whole
in one single glance, it is extremely difficult, indeed all together imposible for
me to give you even the most vague idea of what it was that I saw. …. In that
immense plain I also saw all the savages who lived scattered in that territory of
the Pacific, down to the gulf of Ancud, the strait of Magellan, Cape Horn, the
Diego islands, and the Falklands. All this was the harvest awaiting the reaping
by the Salesians. I saw that as of now the Salesians were only sowing, but that
those coming after them would reap. Men and women will swell our ranks and
become preachers. Their children who, so now it seems, cannot possibly be
won over to our faith, will themselves become
evangelisers of their parents and friends. The Salesians
will succed in everything with humility, work and
temperance …».
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An African Missionary in Papua New Guinea
I believe that my Salesian
missionary vocation ad
gentes is something
gradually learnt to respond
to every day. My interest to
be a missionary was triggered
by the witness of life of mis-
sionaries. I was very much
impressed seeing them tire-
lessly serving my people, es-
pecially during difficult times
and situations and, yet they
were full of that contagious
joy! This led me to ask why
and what was moving them
to be so and to do as they
did. How they were able to
live far
away
from their
families
and so
on, and
so forth...
My an-
swers
were not
so clear
until I
joined the
Salesian Congregation. my going for regular spiritual direction during
our years of formation (from the aspiran-
tate onwards) has especially helped me a
lot to purify my intentions and reasons
and to understand that these missionaries
did not come to my country for human ad-
venture, but they had met and known
someone – JESUS CHRIST – The Risen Lord.
I soon realised that it is also He, Jesus, who
calls me to share in His mission of commu-
nicating life and life to its fullness. My mis-
sionary vocation is a gratuitous Gift from God which I have learnt to ap-
preciate, to pray for, and to share wherever He may send me.
Bro. Pedro Sachitula
Angolan, missionary in Papua New Guinea
MISSIONARY EXCHANGE 2010 - Missionaries of all Christian denominations
Africa
Africa
17.000
RECEIVER
Asia
Europa Latin
Nord Oceania
America America
400
2.000
200
1.000
100
Total
20.700
Asia
700 38.400
3.600
1.300
2.300
800
47.100
Europe
21.600 13.000 54.700 36.000
4.000
3.500 132.800
Latin
America
North
America
Oceania
1.000
53.100
300
1.000
5.000 24.000 27.100
5.700 24.000 40.200
5.100
700
700
300
700
300
58.400
6.900 135.000
3.300
6.000
Total
93.700 59.200 90.000 102.000 40.200 14.900 400.000
source: “THE ATLAS OF GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY”, Edinburgh, 2010
Salesian Missionary Intention
Families Entrusted to the Pastoral Care of the Salesians in Africa
That families entrusted to the pastoral care of the Salesians throughout Africa may be
schools and houses of hospitality
Africa has accepted Jesus, with Joseph and Mary, in that tragic situation of
migrants. In our Salesian settings, in some contexts of strong ethnic discrimi-
nation, we often witnessed the courageous example of hospitality by the
baptised even up to the point of temerity even their own life. Inspired by the
Synod for Africa, which invited us to peace and reconciliation. We implore the
Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Fortitude, that he may enlighten African families -
especially those entrusted to the pastoral care of the Salesians in 42 countries
of Africa.
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