by Fr. Angel Fernandez
 

After the meeting of the World Council of the Salesian Family in Turin in May, I decided to propose for the Strenna of 2020 a theme that, in the form of a pair, embodies the essence of our Salesian education. We received it from Don Bosco himself: to help our boys, girls and young people to be "good Christians and honest citizens". We need to deepen more and more our identity as evangelizers and educators of the faith.

There is a growing fragility, and sometimes inability, in being apostles and missionaries of the youth. And at the same time there is the risk of not educating our young people to a strong sense of citizenship, social justice and evangelical values that lead to interiorize, as a life program, service to others, commitment to public life, personal honesty and "allergy" to all types of corruption, sensitivity to the world of migration, to creation and the "common home" that has been given to us, in the commitment to protect the defenceless, those who have no say, and who are discarded....

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