My dear friends: just a few weeks ago I was in Valdocco and had the opportunity to have a whole morning to be quiet, reflect and pray in the chapel Pinardi. I could not help but feel, as so often when you come home after a long time, an emotion without limit to remember our history, our origins and, above all, our father.
all started in a shed . Today, the chapel Pinardi recalls with a great fresco of the risen on the front of the little church that Sunday in April, when Don Bosco and his boys arrived that place was Easter . He reminds himself in the Memoirs of the Oratory:
"I gathered the kids around me and I screamed in a loud voice:" Cheer, boys, we have a more stable Oratorio in the past, we have church, sacristy , rooms for classes and field to play. On Sunday we will go to the new Oratory is Pinardi back home, 'and I pointed out the place (...) The following Sunday, the feast of Passover, April 12, we moved all the furniture of the church and games, to take possession of new location. " Don Bosco recalled
well that time. It was Easter. As if of a rebirth it were, as the Risen Christ, freed from the bonds of death, opened again in two sea to Don Bosco and his boys, crossing to the other side, the promised land arrived : Valdocco was the fulfillment of the dream, the place appointed by God to carry out their work liberating for young people neglected and in danger.
And the truth is that Salesian spirituality, born to the thread of life in those years of significant action of the Spirit is deeply Easter. is a spirituality of the new life of joy and celebration, confidence in the Father, the opportunity - If present - to restart for those boys who have lost expectations in the margins of history.
spirituality is really close to reality but profound and deep roots. Simple in form but with the freshness of someone who drinks every day in the most authentic sources of encounter with the Risen Christ in the Eucharist, the Word, in dedication to those most in need .
So Don Bosco raised his boys . So we live all we have breathed the air of the Salesian charism. He remembered a few days before the Risen Christ imposing temple presided over Don Bosco Becchi. Just about where Don Bosco was born Risen image reminds us that God sent a man, whose name was John, and made it liberating good news for young people of all time and history, history of salvation.
As a new creation, the Salesian is the fulfillment of God's promise. His son has invited us to the banquet of the Kingdom and has made us new people.
Today, the Salesians and stewards who share the spirit and mission of San Juan Bosco, as witnesses of the Risen Christ we are committed to support young people to join new land flowing with milk and honey.
in a few days when we celebrate Easter, let us not forget that there are new ways by walking, with the young, to the stature of Jesus Christ, the Lord of Life . Good
week. Good Lord's Passover.
Your friend, Jose Miguel Núñez
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