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Fr. Pascual Chávez
Villanueva, Ninth Successor of Don Bosco
Today there are many groups in the Salesian
Family that have a wide influence in the world: the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (Salesian Sisters), Salesian
Cooperators, Past Pupils of Don Bosco (Don Bosco Alumni), and Don Bosco Volunteers. These groups are at work on behalf
of young people in every corner of the world.
All the groups within Don Bosco's spiritual family share his
educational method, popularly called "the preventive system". Rather than a system, it is really a
lifestyle, an educational approach, a pastoral method and a spiritual heritage. Significantly, Don Bosco's example
and educational methods have inspired a Gospel lifestyle which leads to holiness of life, as witnessed in the lives of many saints
who have embraced Don Bosco's experience and made it their own.
Salesians can be found worldwide in many different
initiatives on behalf of young people: schools, oratories, youth centers, parishes, foreign missions, and activities in the
realm of mass media and social communications. There are over 40,000 Salesians priests, brothers, sister and lay
people working in 120 countries all over the world.
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