Hajja Salesjana April-June 2020

THE POLITICS OF THE OUR FATHER THE MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR DON ÁNGEL FERNÁNDEZ ARTIME 26 H AJJA S ALESJANA Dear Readers of the Salesian Bulletin, I greet you from Valdocco, Turin where we Salesians of Don Bosco have just celebrated our General Chapter XXVIII – right here where we were born "Salesian" for it was here that Don Bosco established his mission with his first boys. It was also here that he founded the first Salesian Oratory together with his mother (that is how I like to say it) – she who is rightfully called the mother of those “homeless of the moment”. During these past six years, I have chosen to share with you many times through this greeting some experience I had as I traveled throughout the Salesian world. Today I offer you something simple and different - something which I trust will interest you or, at least, “connect us all” for one minute. I am speaking of a fruit of those beautiful days of reflection, our celebration of the Salesian Family Spirituality Days XXXVIII: the prayer of the "Our Father" with each phrase “translated into ‘Salesian spirituality’” and annotated with a Salesian action so as to make it concrete for today, an expression of our Salesian commitment. I propose that you read it and see if there is at least one phrase that “speaks to you” and that you can dwell on, if you think it is a good thing to do. I can assure you, that as a Salesian Family and as friends of Don Bosco in the Salesian world, we really seek to translate the Our Father into our everyday life each day . Fruit of the Salesian Family Spirituality Days: a beautiful “Our Father” to live every moment of each day