General Chapter part 3: Mary, our guide

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The mysterious message received by Don Bosco: “ I will give you a teacher”, is the essential educational path that will guide us decisively towards Jesus and helps us to grow in love.

Transcript of General Chapter part 3: Mary, our guide

Mary, a sure guide:

The mysterious message received by Don Bosco:

“ I will give you a teacher”, is the essential educational

path that will guide us decisively towards Jesus and helps us to grow in

love.

The mysterious message received by Don Bosco:

“ I will give you a teacher”, is the essential educational

path that will guide us decisively towards Jesus and helps us to grow in

love.

Mary has been given to us by Jesus as

teacher of wisdom, goodness and

charity in the art of educating.

Don Bosco and Maria Domenica allowed her to take them by the hand in the often difficult search for adequate responses to the

educational needs of young people.

Don Bosco and Maria Domenica allowed her to take them by the hand in the often difficult search for adequate responses to the

educational needs of young people.

Mary, the masterpiece of

God’s foreseeing love, carries

within her, as no other creature

does, the beauty and grace that shines on the face of God.

Her presence accompanies the journey of the christian

community from its beginnings in the Cenacle

until the definitive coming of the Lord. The words of

Jesus: “ This is your son”,

“ This is your mother”

(Jn 19:26-27) reach out from Calvary to every man and

woman.

Her presence accompanies the journey of the christian

community from its beginnings in the Cenacle

until the definitive coming of the Lord. The words of

Jesus: “ This is your son”,

“ This is your mother”

(Jn 19:26-27) reach out from Calvary to every man and

woman.

In her mission

as

Our Help,

she accompanies us in our commitment to walk in the ways of the Spirit and to help generate life in the hearts of young

people who are entrusted to us.

In her mission

as

Our Help,

she accompanies us in our commitment to walk in the ways of the Spirit and to help generate life in the hearts of young

people who are entrusted to us.

In the globalised and technological world in which we find ourselves, we learn from her to understand true humanism and to understand the importance

of genuine relationships for the harmonious development of the person.

In the globalised and technological world in which we find ourselves, we learn from her to understand true humanism and to understand the importance

of genuine relationships for the harmonious development of the person.

We never find her alone in the Gospel. Mary is a figure

who gathers and calls people together around

her.

The community: a prophecy of love