The poster prepared for the Salesian Mission Day 2012 has as the background a section of the mosaic “The marriage feast of Cana” to be found in the chapel of the “Auxilium” Pontifical Faculty of Education in Rome, made by  Fr Marko Ivan Rupnik and his collaborators at the Aletti Centre. It shows Christ, the water  jars and the young couple sitting at the wedding feast. Jesus, crucified and risen, brings the new wine of the new covenant offered to the whole human race.

In John's Gospel the incident of the wedding at Cana marks the beginning of Jesus' ministry; the same ministry which continues in history and in time through the Church's work of evangelisation. For 150 years the Salesian Congregation, through the work of religious and lay people associated with them, has been collaborating in the evangelising mission of the Church, inviting all peoples to the wedding feast with Christ, pouring out the wine of the new Covenant.

There are then three illustrations which show some of  the experiences and ways of carrying out evangelisation by the Salesians in Asia: Fr Robin Gomes while speaking to a group of Christians in Kalyani (India); Fr Salvatore Putzu, Director of the Philippine Publishing House “Word & Life”, during a radio broadcast at the Catholic Station Radio Veritas; and Fr Andrew Ekasit Talhakultorn engaged in the formation of lay catechists in the diocese of  Chiang Mai, in Thailand.

The slogan of the campaign comes from the theme of the Mission Congress of the  Church in Asia held at Chiang Mai in October 2006, in Thailand. Accompanying the slogan is the motto “Go and proclaim the Gospel,” an adaptation of the verse from St Mark (16,15): “Go out to the whole world, proclaim the Good News to all creation.”