NEWSPAPER: LA REGIÓN (Daily, ORENSE – SPAIN) QUESTION: -In Ourense you are remembered for your cheerfulness. Presumably your new mission will be more serious? - No! In no way. You see it really has little do do with what you do. I couldnt meet up with young people around the world and be serious! But that has to be the case every day. If I were to change in this sense, something I dont believe I will do, I wouldnt even recognise myself and would do myself damage. QUESTION- What do you recall best of your time at ORENSE, the city of hot springs [las Burgas]? - I was very happy here. I recall that any problems of managing a large complex work like that couldnt compete with the joy I felt from the warmth and feeling of the older lads, or the smiles of the primary grade children, or the innocent looks of the little preschool ones, or just feeling at home with the youngsters at Amencer. We had a great Salesian religious community and a really nice educative community. I recall that we were very united even when there were problems. This always remains in my heart and memory. QUESTION – Do you think your election will affect your friendship with the Pope? - Describing it as friendship is going too far. We knew each other because he was the Pastor for the Buenos Aires Archdiocese and I was the Salesian Provincial. We were often in touch and we always met on May 24 each year in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians at Almagro, where he was baptised. I always knew him as he is and acts now, with the same evangelical approach. QUESTION: - What kind of message would you like to leave for the Salesian Family at Ourense? - For the Salesian Family not only at Ourense but throughout the world, it is the attraction and belonging which Don Bosco generates today, especially because he was profoundly human and also a man of God. Throughout the world the Saint of the young still deeply touches the hearts of young people. So let us feel that Don Bosco today, in the Church and the world, has something to say about education and evangelisation, something to communicate. Don Bosco seeks happiness hear and now for all young people in the world, and their salvation (‘I want you to be happy now and in Eternity’). It is up to all the Salesian Family to embody Don Bosco today as faithfully as possible since we have to bring him to young people wherever we meet them. This has to be our commitment and task including here in a House that is nearly a hundred years old, this House at Ourense.
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