How can the Salesian Congregation celebrate this year?
We will be keeping this Year for Priests while we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of our Congregation by Don Bosco, and while we are preparing to celebrate the centenary of the death of Don Rua, his first Successor. All of this reminds us of our fundamental identity as a Congregation: Don Bosco founded a Society of men consecrated to God for the young and Don Rua was his faithful disciple along the same path. Our common vocation is that of Salesian consecrated life. Prior to the difference in vocation between the Salesian priest and the Salesian brother, there is our being sent to the young, in fraternal communities following Christ obedient, poor and chaste. We are therefore consecrated men, and also for the Salesian priest it is important to make clear his identity as a consecrated person which precedes and unifies his spiritual and apostolic life as a priest. Q: What is the identity of the Salesian priest? A: Fr Egidio Vigano, the seventh Successor of Don Bosco
