SALESIAN PSALM

Blessed be God who raised up in Don Bosco the passion of an apostolic love for youngsters who are poor, abandoned and in danger.

Blessed be God who gives us so many young people to love and evangelise, those to whom our mission is first and foremost addressed.

Blessed be God for the presence of Salesians in so many countries in Europe, Africa, Oceania, Asia and America.

Blessed be God who gives us an oratorian heart and invites us to form communities that are a home that welcomes, a parish that evangelises, a school that prepares for life, a playground where friends can meet and enjoy themselves.

Blessed be God for Salesian educational work in schools, vocational training centres and universities, for the full development of all the potential of young people through their assimilation of sound cultural values and through education to the faith.

Blessed be God for the training that prepares young people for work in our technical and agricultural schools. Imitating the concern of Don Bosco, we help youngsters preparing to enter the work force and young workers to enable them to take their place in the church and in society with dignity.

Blessed be God who makes His church grow in the parish communities and centres for evangelisation entrusted to the Salesians and in missionary parishes offering programmes of catechesis, evangelisation and human development.

Blessed be God for the opportunities provided for youngsters at risk and street children in our fringe districts to rebuild their lived through family and social rehabilitation programmes.

Blessed be God who inspires Salesian missionaries among people not yet evangelised to share their lives with the native peoples and peasants sowing the seed of the Gospel and building lively church communities.
Blessed be the Lord for our youth centres and Salesian oratories, where groups of adolescents and youngsters meet together, commit themselves and grow to maturity, as they are offered opportunities to spend their free time fruitfully and training possibilities in groups and associations.

Blessed be God, because so many young people put outside the school system manage to lay the foundations of their lives through their ability to work, the training they receive and finding their place in the work force.

Blessed be God who raises up in so many young people an earnest desire for the Kingdom in the style of Don Bosco and accompanies the formation process of our communities - aspirantates, prenovitiates, novitiates, postnovitiates and theologates.

Blessed be God for the fidelity of elderly and sick Salesians who have spent their lives on behalf of so many young people in the world, and contributed their gifts to the community in a spirit of faith offering their limitations and sufferings for their confreres and for the young.

Blessed be God who calls many lay people, young people and adults, parents and educators, to form an educative and pastoral community that becomes a family for those who do not have one.

Blessed be God who calls us to a pastoral service among the ordinary people as we evangelise and accompany those who bring gospel values to their efforts for human development and growth in the faith.

Blessed be God for the different groups of the Salesian Family who, living in communion with the same spirit, continue with their different vocations the mission of Don Bosco.