Lord
Jesus, You once said; “I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”
Helps us to see in everyone who has recourse to us that You Yourself
are the mysterious guest knocking at our door, so that those who You
send to us may find in our welcome and availability the path to
attain more certainly to You in the Common House of our Father.
[Art.
56]
Father,
may we keep our minds and hearts open to the good of the Church and
the world. May we be always ready to accept the good qualities of
the world we live in and use and develop them for the coming of the
Kingdom. May we generously set aside our own tastes and inclinations
to make ourselves all things to all people after Jesus and Don
Bosco. Through Christ our Lord. [Art.57]
May
we grow in our awareness of ourselves as a provincial community. May
we all learn to know, understand and help each other in the
fulfilment of our common mission. May each one of us see it as his
responsibility to pray for and procure vocations to the Church, the
Congregation and the Salesian Family. Grant that we share in the
joy, sorrows, successes and misfortunes of each community. [Art. 58]
Father,
give greater breadth to our love, ecumenical dimensions to our
desires and universal openness to our plans. Make us happy to have
brothers who differ in race and language. May we be one with them in
their efforts to spread Your Kingdom, desirous of promoting and
sharing true unity around our superiors and witnesses of the
presence of our Father and Founder. Through>>>>>[Art.
59]
Father,
bestow on us an abundance of Your Spirit, that we may be fully
conformed to Christ Jesus in unceasing participation in the Paschal
Mystery as a pure offering to please you. Grant that we may cleave
totally to you, loving and serving you above all else. May we become
a loving prophecy of your Saving Presence among all, especially the
young.
Through
Christ our Lord. [Art. 60]
Lord,
increase our generosity daily, and help us to live our holy vows in
the brotherhood of our religious family as a way of pure love. By
following the evangelical counsels with joyful enthusiasm, may we be
freed from everything opposed to charity and be ready to love all
who are sent to us, especially young people who are on the margins
of society. Through Christ our Lord.
[Art. 61]
Father,
grant that by living our vocation in complete fidelity, we may
become living witnesses among the young to the Good News of the
Beatitudes. May all we say and do manifest Your love and the Supreme
Sense of Existence in Jesus Christ to them and to all those we meet
and deal with in our everyday lives. Through Christ our Lord.
[Art.
62]
God,
my Father, you accepted the humble offering of my freedom and love
on the day of my profession. Conform my heart to that of your Son
that henceforth it may beat only for the Kingdom. Help me to discern
the signs of Your Presence in the world so that like Don Bosco, I
may be live a joyful and active hope, which bears witness at every
moment to your justice and forgiveness. [Art.
63]
Lord,
send us your Spirit of Truth and enable us to read the signs of Your
Will which you continue to show us in the Good News and in our
Constitutions, in the dispositions of our superiors and in the
circumstances of every day of our lives. Make us always ready to
respond to you in loving generosity and fidelity. Through Christ our
Lord.
[Art.
64]
Father,
grant that the service of guidance and animation rendered by our
superiors, and our own ready, sincere and cheerful obedience, be,
for the Congregation and the social environment in which we live, a
guarantee of continuity of faith and a path to holiness, the source
of energy in all our work, and of joy, peace and hope. Through
Christ our Lord.
[Art.
65]
Father,
in listening to your Word and sharing the Bread of Your Son, we have
the true sources of cohesion with each other. Grant that we may
always seek together what You would have us do. Help us accept with
faith the decisions of our superiors and to fulfil them with love so
that our life of obedience may be the instrument of our salvation
and that of those entrusted to our care. [Art. 66]
Lord,
grant that our obedience always be an act of intelligence, freedom
and responsibility. May it be an act of living faith which enables
us to see Your will in everything. May we always follow Your ways
and so reach the liberty of the Children of God conformed to the
image of Your Son the perfect Man and our Saviour.
[Art. 67]
God,
our Father, You have led us in Your Spirit to offer our freedom for
Your service by the vow of holy obedience. Help us to live it as a
sacrifice pleasing to You in humble submission to our brothers and
in the faithful observance of our Constitutions for the good of the
community and of the young people to whom we are sent. Through
Christ our Lord.
[Art.
68]
Father,
give us the clarity of vision that will enable us to see in our
superiors and in their directives an indication of Your loving
designs. Helps us to grow in availability, to sacrifice in
accordance with your will, our desires and personal interests, so as
to become more like Your Son in the complete giving of ourselves for
the salvation of our brothers and sisters.
Through
Christ our Lord. [Art. 69]
Instil
in us a spirit of filial confidence and grant that we may express
and develop it through frequent and cordial colloquy with our
superiors as Don Bosco wished. In this way, we believe, we make a
constant contribution to the building of the community on the model
of Your Divine Family, so as to become effective signs among young
people of Your Saving Presence. [Art.
70]
May
we believe with a living faith that our obedience is a participation
in the death and resurrection of Your Son. Grant that in moments of
difficulty we may be able to raise our eyes to Christ nailed on the
Cross. May he teach us how fruitful it is to obey and help us
testify that the grain of wheat which dies in the obscurity of the
dirt of the earth brings forth much fruit. [Art.
71]
Lord
Jesus, from being rich You chose to make Yourself poor to enrich us
with Your immense generosity. May we who have followed You in the
way of poverty live our choice with joy so that like Your Apostles
and Don Bosco, we may entrust ourselves to Your Providence and be
free to dedicate ourselves entirely to the service of Your Good
News.
[Art.
72]
Lord,
our God, we thank You for giving us in Don Bosco a model of
evangelical poverty. Grant that we may imitate him in detachment of
heart so that we may share in the Church’s mission for the
building of a world of justice and peace. Sustain us by Your grace
so that by the example of a simple life lived in community we
educate the young to a true sense of the value of money and
possessions. [Art. 73]