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“Laudate Deum” – this concerns all of us!

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Pope Francis has published an Apostolic Exhortation building on his 2015 encyclical: “Laudate Deum”. We’re not reacting enough, he says, we’re close to breaking point. He criticizes climate change deniers, saying that the human origin of global warming is now beyond doubt. And he describes how care for our common home flows from the Christian faith.

 

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A cry, a call also addressed to the Salvatorian laity. Our challenges of the time also urge us to question and, if necessary, reorient our activities and apostolates with regard to environmental impact and the climate crisis. The world needs us and we are called to respond to the challenges (signs) of our time. It is not only the big changes or improvements that count, which we as individuals or small groups can hardly achieve. But the many small things in our everyday lives can make a big difference if we question them and change them accordingly.

 

Get more information here → Vatican News

 

Laudate Deum text in several languages

 

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El Papa Francisco ha publicado una exhortación apostólica basada en su encíclica de 2015 “Laudate Deum”. No estamos reaccionando lo suficiente, dice, estamos cerca del punto de ruptura. Critica a los negacionistas del cambio climático, diciendo que el origen humano del calentamiento global está ahora fuera de toda duda. Y describe cómo el cuidado de nuestra casa común emana de la fe cristiana.

Un grito, una llamada dirigida también a los laicos Salvatorianos. Los desafíos de nuestro tiempo también nos urgen a cuestionar y, si es necesario, a reorientar nuestras actividades y apostolados en relación con el impacto medioambiental y la crisis climática. El mundo nos necesita y estamos llamados a responder a los desafíos (signos) de nuestro tiempo. No sólo cuentan los grandes cambios o mejoras, que nosotros, como individuos o pequeños grupos, difícilmente podemos conseguir. Pero las muchas pequeñas cosas de nuestra vida cotidiana pueden marcar una gran diferencia si nos las cuestionamos y las cambiamos en consecuencia.

 

Más información → Vatican News

 

Texto de Laudate Deum

Translated with DeepL

 

30. Anniversary Salvatorian Laity in Bad Wurzach

On the weekend around 17th September, a group of Austrian Lay Salvatorians traveled to Bad Wurzach in Baden Würtenberg (South Germany). The group of lay Salvatorians based there was celebrating its 30th anniversary. It was a very joyful and beautiful reunion with Salvatorian brothers and sisters whom we had last seen before the Corona epidemic.

During the festive mass on Sunday, the group with Rosemarie Böcherer and Albrecht Klein gave a short review of the past time:

Already at the first meeting of about 20 people, they showed a great need to exchange questions of faith and life, for mutual support in the everyday challenges in the family, at work, in their own environment, also in their own church community. After a period of ups and downs, membership has now settled at around 30. The group grew out of the endeavor to see themselves as sisters and brothers and to live in a “fraternal Church” – in the community of Salvatorian lay people and in the “Salvatorian Family”, which consists of lay people, Salvatorian Sisters, and Fathers/Brothers. Continue Reading

Celebremos juntos – Let’s celebrate together

The national coordination team of Lay Salvatorians Colombia wants to share with you this invitation with the purpose of celebrating as a global Salvatorian family (priests, religious, and laity) the recent recognition of the Church to the lay branch.
Let’s celebrate in common a day of joy and thankfulness, forgetting our cultural, mentality, and language barriers. Let’s simply have joy in our Lay Salvatorian branch as part of the Salvatorian Family.
We encourage you to meet together on this day and have a common toast for this event that fills with joy the Family of the Divine Savior.

 

El equipo de coordinación nacional de Laicos Salvatorianos Colombia quiere compartir con ustedes esta invitación con el fin de celebrar como familia Salvatoriana global (sacerdotes, religiosos y laicos) el reciente reconocimiento de la Iglesia a la rama laical.
Celebremos en común un día de alegría y agradecimiento, olvidando nuestras barreras culturales, de mentalidad y de idioma. Simplemente tengamos alegría en nuestra rama Laica Salvatoriana como parte de la Familia Salvatoriana.
Les animamos a reunirse en este día y brindar en común por este acontecimiento que llena de alegría a la Familia del Divino Salvador.

 

 

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¡No olvides tu copa para festejar! Un abrazo en Jesucristo, Salvador.

 

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Don’t forget your glass to celebrate! A hug in Jesus Christ, Savior.

Speeches from Recognition day – 2

This posting includes the homily by Superior General Fr. Milton Zonta SDS from the Mass of Thanksgiving on February 8. The theme: Salvatorians – Apostles in the World

 

 

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Merry Christmas – Feliz Navidad

Merry Christmas from the General Committee –
Feliz Navidad de parte del Comité General

 

Read here some thoughts about this picture and why it was chosen for this year’s Christmas message.
The hidden NativityLa Natividad ocultaDie verborgene Krippe

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Expanding Salvatorian Family commission meeting

The members of the Commission “Expanding of the Salvatorian Family” met this week in Rome at the Mother House of the Salvatorian Society. On the agenda was the preparation of a proposal for the upcoming General Chapters and the General Assembly. The topic is to find out a possible structure and/or criteria to implement also other types of groups that want to commit themselves to the Salvatorian vision of Blessed Francis Jordan. At this meeting also the leaders of the current three Salvatorian branches shared time with the commission to see how the work develops and give one or another input or remark.
Of course, furthermore, this meeting gave the opportunity for informal meetings to the representatives of the Generalates and some persons from several units.

On the common path …

A group of the Lay Salvatorians in Austria met last Saturday for a spiritual walk through the landscape in the northeast of Austria. The start and endpoint was the little local church of Gaubitsch, the eldest in the surrounding with roots back to 1055.
With a prayer and a song, we started our walk. Seven stations invited us with text from the Holy Scripture to reflect a little bit on our personal path in life. The walk was a wonderful recreation after the last years affected by the CoVid-pandemic. Even if not all exchanges we can describe as “Holy words” there was to feel the Holy Spirit as a companion and opened again our common engagement in the Lay Salvatorian community. In our thought and prayers, we tried to take all the members of the Salvatorian family with us in this way and express our unity.
With thankfulness, we will think about this day for a long time, and may it inspire our acting in the coming future.

PS: We would appreciate reading about similar actions from other units because we recognized during the walking on our path that the communication between us in the international community needs an improvement again. So maybe you can see these lines as an invitation … Your comments and ideas are very welcome …

 

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USA Lay Salvatorian Convocation via Zoom

On April 30 and May 1, 2022, the USA lay Salvatorians met on Zoom for our Convocation which is held every three years. At this Convocation, reports were presented by the committees of the Lay Salvatorian National Board (LSNB) and the ICDS. Current ministries gave talks about their ministries, and proposals from the members (submitted beforehand) were discussed and voted on. The Convocation discussed and prioritized directions for the incoming LSNB. The incoming National Director, Bobby Pantuso, and the incoming LSNB were installed for a three-year term, 2022-2025. Mass was celebrated in the Western sector and live streamed for those unable to attend in person.

For the closing prayer, all Lay Salvatorians were commissioned to go forth and teach the goodness and kindness of The Savior.