Balancing act

The recent meetings left me in a dilemma: a dilemma of balance! It is true that virtue lies in the middle but how to decide upon where is the middle or how does one strike balance in such a situation? My dilemma is this: I have long been an advocate of "Don Bosco ki jay bolo!" In short, I like to trumpet my identity as a Salesian. I really took pride in making known Don Bosco. But of late, there is this growing need and call for networking. There are Salesians who are very much involved too. However, their call is to 'submerge Don Bosco'. For them the goal is important not the name. Not that they do not love Don Bosco but somehow, in a crowd they'd stand for the mission rather than the name. Their aspiration is to get over our 'four-walled training' mentality and widen our collaborative network. The results are there to see! Their impact is much wider than our 'incestuous Salesian works'.

On the other hand, there are our faithful Salesians who have not made a big impact on the world at large. They have in their own way touched the lives of a few inmates - and touched them deeply too. They haven't been involved in any great movement or networking.

Now where and how does on strike balance. I understand that individual charisms too play a great role in this whole enterprise. But how can I really merge these two dimensions without compromising one for the other?