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Holy Land Pilgrimage<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 1, 2019<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/span>Do you make Salesian saints known?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n (Brother Cosimo \u2013 Sacro Cuore, Rome)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dear Friends and Salesian Family members,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Receive my heartfelt greetings from the Holy Land of Jesus, where he was born as one of us in Bethlehem, where he grew up in an ordinary human family in Nazareth and where he was crucified, died and was risen in Jerusalem. Be sure, that with the whole General Council and the Don Bosco\u2019s Successor on this pilgrimage we also bring your intentions to these holy places.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m more and more convinced that listening is the key to any good event in our communities, our families and all groups of the Salesian Family. After one Thursday morning Mass in the Don Bosco rooms at Sacro Cuore with the Rector Major and the Council, I spent a few minutes talking to Br. Cosimo, a passionate senior custodian of the Don Bosco rooms. His custom is to ask every pilgrim or visitor to write a short prayer intention on the back of a Don Bosco holy picture and then offer them on the altar where Don Bosco celebrated his Masses during his last stay in Rome. At the end of his sharing he can\u2019t avoid sighing: \u201cUsually, lay people are more attached to our Saint than Salesians SDB. Do you know why?\u201d And his answer is very simple:\u00a0\u201cNow the young Salesians don\u2019t speak so much about Don Bosco, simply because they don\u2019t know him enough!<\/strong>\u00a0Reading Teresio Bosco\u2019s Life of Don Bosco is not enough.\u201d As a former missionary in Ecuador who speaks fluent Italian, Spanish and English, Brother Cosimo is an excellent guide and passionate disciple of Don Bosco. You may spot many holy pictures of Don Bosco at the altar, each with a handwritten intention in some language or other, asking for some grace through the intercession of our Father.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holy Land, holy People, holy Places<\/strong>\u2026 sanctified with the presence of the Son of God in his native Holy Land. Likewise, the holy places of Don Bosco are not only in Italy: Piedmont, Rome, Becchi, Chieri or Valdocco, but they are all around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Where the sons and daughters of Don Bosco try to know him better, love him more, imitate him with their whole heart and invoke him often \u2013 they easily make Don Bosco known to the young, to other educators or other people. If their heart is full of Don Bosco, he overflows from their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fr V\u00e1clav Klement, SDB<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n EAO Regional Councillor<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Holy Land Pilgrimage \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 1, 2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australasia","category-155"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}