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Together
Together
A weeklong stay in Cesuna, a mountain
village at 1000 meters of altitude,
surrounded by vast fields of pine trees and
with a panorama of the Venetian
Dolomites…For a few years now the
editorial group of the DMA has met here for
a time of evaluation and programming. The
community environment and the climate of
the group have provided the best support
for the research and meeting.
Even the meetings of August, 2006
demonstrated intense reflection and work.
What guided the group was the desire to
make the Magazine more alive, propositive,
a discreet companion that would also be
capable of guiding the formative journey of
the FMA. This, in fact, is the identity of our
periodical.
During the August meeting we allowed
ourselves to be surprised by a dream, that
we expressed through this wish: that the
DMA magazine become an open space also
for the laity, for those with whom we share
the mission. In many of our houses there is
an ongoing maturity of the conviction that
we are called to form ourselves together, as
an educating community, according to what
is specific in our respective vocations. We
saw this in the evaluation meetings of last
year. We observed it in the province
programming that was sent to us. We
frequently say that the charism received is
not exclusively ours; it is to be widely
shared.
The formative proposal of the Magazine
during 2007 follows the line of the
preceding year. The deep study of the
Constitutions in view of the educational
mission, with our glance fixed on life in its
everyday aspects. The Guidelines of the
Educational Mission constitutes the
mediation that accompanies this process of
study, especially through the Dossier.
Our formative journey as educators could
draw from the new article on Mary inspired
by the Scriptures and the Constitutions, and
by the article The Lamp, a study of the
fundamental themes of our Spirituality. In
the section Outskirts you will find proposed
themes on information and the news.
The celebration of the 25th Anniversary of
Project Africa that occurs this year, allows
us to enter into the heart of this beloved
land with a special section. The article
Underground World will deal with stories of
exploitation and slavery, especially of
women and children. And in Goal 2015 we
question to what degree the world society is
operatively assuming the commitment
asked by the Development Objectives of the
Millennium.
It is a new year…may it be concretely one
of a formative journey of quality and
depth…together.
This is the wish of the Editorial department.
Giuseppina Teruggi