Rome (Italy). Online at the Web Site https://www.festadelgrazie.org is the Journey of preparation for the World Feast of Gratitude 2023 of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, which will be celebrated in Colombia, Bogotá on 26 April 2023. It will be animated by the four Colombian Provinces: Our Lady of the Rosary Province of Chiquinquirá (CBC); Our Lady of the Snow Province (CBN); Mary Help of Christians Province (CMA); Saint Mary Mazzarello Province (CMM) with the theme:
“With Mary we generate a culture of peace”
In the In the Letter of the Vicar General, Sr. Maria del Rosario García Ribas, available in 5 languages in the Resources of the site, the theme is motivated as follows:
In such a delicate moment for the world in which peace is threatened in many ways, we want our celebration of Gratitude to be a song of peace and a call to the commitment to build it. The theme that is proposed to us, illumined by the Word of Jesus:
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Mt 5:9)
www.festadelgrazie.org, in two languages, Italian and Spanish, is a meeting place in which to network – FMA, Educating Communities, lay people, and young people of the Salesian Family to express gratitude to Mother Chiara Cazzuola and to prepare to live, with renewed enthusiasm, the charismatic event of the World Feast of Gratitude.
The website offers the resources to deepen the theme as Educating Communities, according to the three-week itinerary proposed by the Colombian Provinces:
1st Week (26 March – 5 April) Peace in the inner home (Salesian enlightenment)
2nd Week (6 – 15 April) Peace in the welcoming home (Ecclesial Enlightenment)
3a Week (16 – 25 April) Peace in the common home (Biblical Enlightenment)
Each stage will be accompanied by the act of Entrustment to Mary proposed for this occasion and by the conscious prayer of the “Hail Mary for peace in the house.”
To share with Mother Chiara and with the whole Institute the commitment to generate a culture of peace, each Province was invited to send a photograph that expresses some actions or ways in which they are contributing to build peace. On the Peace Gesture page of the site, all the photographs will be collected, accompanied by the caption that begins with the words: “We are generators of a culture of peace…”.
The animation of the Feast is enriched by the social profiles animated by the Colombian Provinces: the Facebook page Grazie.fma and the Instagram profile grazie.fma, in addition to the YouTube Channel Festa del Grazie, where little by little, the Videos will be published and the live streaming will be transmitted from here.
“For us, the Feast of Gratitude is a very meaningful moment at the charismatic level, that gives continuity and expression to the spirit of family and of gratitude so characteristic at Valdocco and at Mornese” (Circ. 1017).
Beloved Mother Chiara ,
We the community of Maria Nivas Nandigama and the staff are very happy to thank you for the gift of yourself to us and to our institute. We thank God for our big and great Salesian family and its charism. We do make sincere effort to be messengers and promoters of peace in our community and mission. We try to be at peace with our selves and others. We do pray for you every day. Grazie Mille madre for all that you are and do.
With love from the Sisters, staff, students and members of the educating community.
Maria Nivas , Nandigama, Andhra pradesh. INK province.
Thank you Mother. Your presence among us and in our house last September is do fresh in my mind.
Thank you four beautiful smile and friendliness. Thank you for your circulars so good and practical and easy to understand.
Praying for you
Gracias Madre por tu sencillez, tu sonrisa y cercania desde esta hermosa y dolorida ciudad andina Ayacucho, tus hermanas oramos por ti
Gracias Madre Chiara por tu presencia en nuestra patria y en nuestras Inspectorías. De corazon te lo agradecemos y te decimos: BIENVENIDA!!!
Muy querida Madre, qué alegría poder celebrar la fiesta de la Gartitud en tu persona, el próximo 26 de abrilycon un tema “Con maría generamos una cultura de paz”. Estamos comprometidas como comunidad ser instrumentos de paz, para unir fuerzas positivas en bien de la humanidad y de la naturaleza con toda la comunidad educativa.
Tus hijas de la comunidad San José de la ciudad de El Alto (La Paz- Bolivia)
Vive Jésus soeur Chiara, les FMA de la communauté Marie Auxiliatrice ainsi que les jeunes et toute la communauté éducative de la Kafubu, RDCongo vous disent sincèrement merci pour attention affective à son égard. Nous vous portons dans nos prière pour votre voyage prochain en Colombie.
Madre, desde la Obra Social Santa María Mazzarello te decimos BIENVENIDA Y GRACIAS por lo que eres MADRE donde la VIDA y la PAZ se abrazan y nutren la nuestra la nuestra, con gestos que generan culturan de paz. DESDE YA ¡FELIZ FIESTA!
Gracias Madre Chiara, estamos felices con este regalo de tu presencia en nuestra patria, en nuestras Inspectorías. Que esta celebración acreciente el deseo de ser generadoras de vida, de amor y de paz. ¡BIENVENIDA, te esperamos!.
Bienvenido todo el mundo salesiano a Colombia. gracias Madre por tu presencia