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DMA 2015
DMA 2015
Personal and community
journeys this year will be guided by the
Chapter event, defined as an
experience of the Holy Spirit and
ongoing education. To each FMA
community it entrusted concrete choices
and action steps for the future. The title
of the Chapter Document Broaden the
Vision-Missionaries of Hope and Joy
with the Young is a call and commitment
to bring to reality the lived experience
characterized by a strong missionary
dynamism. The DMA magazine places
itself in this view, and will accompany
the FMA, laity, and young people in the
process of the assimilation and
translation of the vital content that
emerged from the recent GC XXIII held
in Rome.
Some aspects of the document will be
studied especially in the Dossier entitled
Broaden the Vision. This will serve as a
leitmotif and will urge us to scrutinize the
reality and the world with new eyes. The
historic moment in which we are living is
also rich in signs and invitations. In
particular, the Year of Consecrated Life
and the Bicentennial of the birth of Don
Bosco are gifts and appeals to render
our identity as consecrated persons
more luminous in the Church and
today’s society.
This year DMA presents new articles
that touch topical issues. Peace is the
Way to get to know actual situations of
conflict through the witness of FMA and
laity who are taking concrete steps to promote a culture of Peace. The page
on The Word contributes toward
facilitating prayer with the young people
and the laity, while the article Charism
and Leadership presents the
characteristics of a person who fills a
dual role as animator and community
member, with efficacious leadership
with charismatic reference to some FMA
models. The themes on Consecrated Life
find a place in the articles in Women in the
Context with the presentation of the beauty
and richness of a femininity which,
knowingly accepted, give color and warmth
to the joy of one’s identity of consecrated.
In the Communicating section, however, the
theme of consecration is compared to
today’s society and with the Magisterium of
the Church.
Finally, in the Insert of each issue the
Millennium Development Goals are
presented from the struggle against hunger
and poverty to environmental protection,
from the promotion of women’s rights to the
defeat of infant mortality…challenges that
cannot be ignored.
Our magazine wants to broaden our vision,
to be a formation tool not only for the FMA,
but also for the many laypersons and young
people who frequent our houses.
Furthermore, it can also become a help for
community animators, and educators who
are called to be, with the young,
missionaries of hope and joy.
Have a good year, therefore, in company
with the DMA magazine!
The Editors