Set in the context of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA), the anniversary recalls that the lives of the saints and holy women of the Salesian Family are new shoots of life and paradigms of the future for the religious and lay people who live the Salesian charism and for the youth they educate and accompany with the style of the Preventive System.
Mother Rosetta, with her passion for God and for education, encourages us to revive the commitment to take care of and to walk together with the new generations, to believe in change, for the presence of God in history as an interpretative key of reality and educational processes (Cf. Acts of the General Chapter XXIV).
“Education is a thing of the heart and only God has the key”, says Don Bosco. Mother Marchese, inspired by the Holy Spirit, has the art of imbuing the human with divine experience, of accompanying those entrusted to her with great interiority and motherhood on the path of holiness. God in history, God in others, God in Himself, and herself in God. This is the interpretative code of her existence, always lived spiritually in the offering of “Cum Ipso, per Ipsum, In Ipso” – With Christ, for Christ, and in Christ until she receives the Eucharistic-Marian grace of the Eucharistic indwelling, of the permanent presence of the Body of Christ in her after Communion.
In the correspondence of her letters to her spiritual father, the Servant of God Monsignor Francesco Fasola, she tries to describe the ineffable mystery of the presence of Christ in her, identifying it now as the open sore of Christ’s side, then as the torn heart of Christ from whom flows that redeeming blood in which to immerse everyone who passed her – sister, youth, lay, priest. It also manifests itself as a continuous Pentecost in which the Lord uses her poor lips to communicate in the Church and, especially among the sisters and priests, the gift of the Holy Spirit.
It is proper to mystics to perceive the divine mysteries in each other. She wrote on 31 January 1980, to her Spiritual Father, in a letter with a great missionary and Marian inspiration, “Help me, Father! This mysterious gift fills me with sweetness, with immense gratitude, but also with trembling. I need so much to be helped to live it in adoration, in the deepest interior recollection, in prayer, and in the most total service, with the immense desire that Jesus sanctify every soul that touches me, as He sanctified John in the encounter between Mary and Elizabeth.”
In the Round Table that will take place on 20 October in the Generalate of the FMA Institute, broadcast in live streaming, there will be the opportunity for a ‘deeper encounter’ with Mother Rosetta.
The program includes:
- Greetings and Introduction of the FMA Superior General, Mother Chiara Cazzuola
Talks:
- "The life and spiritual profile of Mother Rosetta," by Sister Francesca Caggiano, Vice-Postulator of the Cause of Beatification;
- "The figure of Mother Rosetta in the panorama of Salesian holiness," by Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni, Postulator General of the Causes of Saints of the Salesian Family;
- "The Eucharistic indwelling in Mother Rosetta," by Fr. François Léthel, OCD;
- "An Illustrious Witness," by Mother Yvonne Reungoat, Superior General Emerita of the FMA;
- Conclusions.
To attend the panel discussion, click here.
Source: CGFMAnet.org
