Hajja Salesjana April-June 2021

33 H AJJA S ALESJANA In the Works We’ve partnered with Google to create a virtual CASA DON BOSCO MUSEUM. Stay tuned! Our social media platforms will soon be in Italian, English and Spanish. https://www.museocasadonbosco.it Museo Casa Don Bosco museo_casadonbosco our mind, our heart and our soul: recognizing our blind spots, unveiling our hidden prejudices, acknowledging both the strengths and the weaknesses that exist on either side of any political or ideological divide, regardless of our personal vantage point. To survive Covid in salesian style is perhaps to accept these days as an ongoing “exercise for a happy death”, acknowledging and accepting with serenity that we are not in control of our lives; that we are only in control of the responses we make in the battle of good over evil. We become more "immaculate" whenever we strive to build communion, in these days when social distancing, isolation and loneliness, have become "resident evils" that threaten communion. The catechesis we can offer is to strive for spiritual closeness, within and without. Perhaps the head of the serpent we need to put beneath Mary’s feet is this: our attitudes, behaviors or ideologies which undermine communion, a communion which we may too easily take for granted, or which we have grown sadly accustomed to living without. Mary our Mother, inspire in us that immaculate beauty of body, mind and spirit that you model so perfectly. MARY'S GREATNESS CONSISTS IN THE FACT THAT SHE WANTS TO MAGNIFY GOD , NOT HERSELF. Pope Benedict XVI Photo by Galina N from www.unsplash.com