Hajja Salesjana

gives us this year is Hope. This is also important! The new year will surely be filled with many things, but don’t get lost amidst them! Start by reflecting on how important it is... Don't scatter; gather! The Strenna that our Cardinal Angel has laid out for us for 2025, like a new outfit, brings to light the events that we will all experience,uniting them with a single golden thread: Hope! Strenna 2025 highlights both global and Salesian events which involve us all so as to help us live them well: • The Ordinary Jubilee of the year 2025: a Jubilee is an event of the Church in the Catholic tradition that the Holy Father gives us. To live the Jubilee is to live the pilgrimage that the Church offers us so we may put the presence of Christ back at the center of our lives and of the life of the world. The Jubilee that Pope Francis has proclaimed has a life-giving theme: Spes non confundit! Hope does not disappoint! What a marvellous life- giving theme! If the world is in need of one thing at this difficult time, it is precisely Hope, but not the hope of what we believe we can do all by ourselves, which risks becoming an illusion. Rather, it is the Hope of the re-discovery of the Presence of God. Pope Francis writes: "May Hope fill your heart!" May it not only warm the heart but fill it - fill it to overflowing! • Hope makes us pilgrims; the Jubilee is a pilgrimage! It sets you in motion inside; otherwise it is not “Jubilee.” In the midst of this Church event that makes us feel like Church, we, as the Salesian Congregation and as the Salesian Family, will celebrate an important anniversary. In 2025, will be • the 150th anniversary of the first missionary expedition to Argentina. From Valdocco, Don Bosco casts his heart beyond all borders: he sends his sons to the other side of the world! He sends them, beyond all human security. He sends them even when he does not have a sufficient number necessary to carry on what he had already begun. He just sends them and that is it for Hope must be obeyed since Hope guides Faith and sets Charity in motion. He sends them and these first confreres depart and go forth where they do not even know! From there we were all born, from the Hope that sets us on a journey and makes us pilgrims. This anniversary should be celebrated, as should every anniversary, so as to help us recognize the Gift (it is not your property, it was given to you as a gift), to remember, and to give strength for the future, from the dynamic power of the Mission. Hope is the foundation of the Mission because Hope is a responsibility that you cannot hide or keep to yourself! Do not hide what is given to you; recognize the Donor and hand over with your life to the next generations what has been given to you! 27 Ottubru-Diċembru 2024 hajja