Hajja Salesjana

Today, I greet you for the last time through the pages of the Salesian Bulletin . As of August 16, the day on which we commemorate Don Bosco’s birthday (August 16, 1815), my service as Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco ends. There’s always a reason to give thanks, always . Thank you! Thank you— to God, above all, to the Congregation and the Salesian Family, to so many dear people, and to so many friends of Don Bosco’s charism, many of whom are benefactors. I also want my greeting to transmit and connect with something I experienced recently. Therein lies the title of this greeting: “Between Admiration and Pain!”, because I’m going to refer to the joy that filled my heart in the Democratic Republic of Congo, specifically in the region of Goma, nowadays beaten by and immersed in warfare, and the joy and testimony that I received yesterday. Let me explain further …. Three weeks ago I visited the Palabek refugee camp in Uganda. Fortunately, thanks to the Salesian work and other help in these years, it has ceased to be a Sudanese refugee camp and has become Top photo by by Rosie Kerr - Unsplash.com BETWEEN ADMIRATION AND PAIN THE MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR DON ÁNGEL FERNÁNDEZ ARTIME I cordially greet all Don Bosco’s friends who read the Salesian Bulletin with interest. This is the instrument of communication that Don Bosco loved so much and which he himself founded so that he could make known what was happening in the Salesian houses around the world and the good that was being done in them. 26 Lulju-Settembru 2024 hajja