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Salesian Family
Spirituality Days DVD doing the rounds
ROME: 11th March 2007 -- The Salesian Family, under Fr Adrian Bregolin, but
with the direct organisation of his team headed up by Fr Julio Olarte, has just
released a DVD of the Salesian Family Spirituality Days held in Rome last
January. This event has only been taken up again in most recent times - it
used be a stalwart of the annual calendar, then fell into disuse for a
period. The Rector Major, who is most insistent that the Salesian Family
go back to Don Bosco's notion of a real 'movement' with a charismatic and
apostolic face, has been a strong supporter of these days and their
effect.
They are, in fact, quite extraordinary days.
Last year those who attended were privileged to hear the nigh-on centenarian
reflections of the daughter of a couple beatified a few years back by John Paul
II, she, a member of one of the groups of the Salesian Family - and one had the
sense that this woman was herself treading those paths of holiness. This
year the participants heard from Nino Baglieri, a member of the Volunteers With
Don Bosco (CDB), and not just seeing him bound to his bed of suffering but
hearing him speak of his entire life and conversion, was a similar
experience. A few weeks later Nino was in the arms of the Lord whom he so
profoundly witnessed to in word and deed. The Bishop of his local diocese
who conducted the Requiem made it clear that he was celebrating something that
would lead to Nino's Beatification, not simply a funeral.
The DVD, which will arrive in Salesian communities around the world, so our
information goes, has a cover in Spanish - but that's simply a choice. In
fact the DVD contains all its materials in seven languages, so don't be put off
by the cover! In it you have access to a sense of how these days proceed,
interviews with appropriate voice-overs, and other documentary materials.
You may always then go to www.sdb.org to download materials in English relevant
to the event - one suggestion is Nino Baglieri's testimony. There is
little doubt, if his bishop has anything to do with it (and, funnily enough,
bishops do seem to have something to do with these things!) that we will be
hearing more of Nino's evident holiness.
The 2008 Salesian
Spirituality Days will be held in Rome-Pisana January next (17-20). Enrolments
will be available from 1st November this year on sdb.org. There is always
a representation from EAO. Give it some thought. There was an idea
of holding the next one in Spain, due to preparations in Rome for GC26, to begin
a few weeks later, but the decision has been made to keep it in Rome and at the
Pisana.
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