Hajja Salesjana

A gift It is a gift because before all else, strenna means: I am giving you a gift ! I am giving you something important to help you celebrate a new time, a new year. This is how Don Bosco thought of it and he gave it to all the young people and adults who were with him. I want to give you this gift, this strenna, for the start of the new year, of a new time. This is something beautiful and important: a new year, a new time, a box in which all the other contents will be held. The coming year is not the same as those you have experienced up until now. A new year needs a new vision in order that it may be lived to the full because the new year comes only once! Each moment of time is unique because we are different from the prior year, from how we were the year before.The purpose of the Strenna is to help us prepare for this new time, by beginning to look inside this new year, bringing to light some things that will be an important part of it. The “golden thread” The gift of time, the gift of life God’s gift and all other gifts are found within life: people, situations, opportunities, human relationships. Within this providential way of viewing the gifts of time and life, the Strenna, a gift that Don Bosco - and his successors after him have given every year to the whole Salesian Family - calls us to gaze upon the new year, this new time, with new eyes. The Strenna is an aid to help us look at the time to come by putting into focus a golden thread that will guide the new time ahead: the golden thread that the Strenna Top photo by Rosie Kerr - Unsplash.com OUR ANNUAL GIFT THE MESSAGE OF THE VICAR Anchored in Hope. Pilgrims with young people. Traditionally as a Salesian Family, we receive the Strenna every year - a gift at the beginning of the year. I hold it dear to look inside this gift with these few lines so as to welcome it as it deserves, without losing anything of the freshness of the gift. 26 Ottubru-Diċembru 2024 hajja