Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «He summoned those He wanted and they came to Him» (Mk 3,13). On the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Salesian Congregation

Contents:

• 1. “AN ACT OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE”
  • 1.1. A start is made in the name of Our Lady
  • 1.2 Days of waiting
  • 1.3 The boys from the ‘black belt’
• 2. FOR THE YOUNG AND WITH THE YOUNG, DON BOSCO FOUNDER
• • 2.1 The event
  • 2.2 Our young ‘founding fathers’
  • 2.3 Involving today’s young people
    • a) Don Bosco had the intuition that for his Congregation the right path was that of youth
    • b) Don Bosco was not afraid to engage his boys in activities that were courageous and humanly speaking imprudent
    • c) The Sodality of Mary Immaculate founded by Saint Dominic Savio, was the small field in which the first seeds of the Salesian crop germinated
• 3. CONSECRATED TO GOD IN THE YOUNG
  • 3.1 Sons of CONSECRATED Founders
  • 3.2 Don Bosco’s teaching to his Salesians
• 4. OUR CONSTITUTIONS, THE WAY OF FIDELITY
  • 4.1 The first photograph Don Bosco wanted
  • 4.2 A long and thorny path
  • 4.3 Sacred nature of the Rule approved by the Church
  • 4.4 The constant recurring theme of Don Bosco and of Don Rua
  • 4.5 The renewal of the Constitutions
  • 4.6 The words of the testament
• 5. DON BOSCO FOUNDER OF “AN VAST MOVEMENT OF PERSONS WHO, IN DIFFERENT WAYS WORK FOR THE SALVATION OF THE YOUNG’ ” (C. 5)
  • 5.1 “The Sons of the Oratory scattered all over the earth”
  • 5.2 The vast network of the Salesian Family
  • 5.3 What Don Bosco heard and saw
• CONCLUSION

Reference time period: 2009

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB