Summary:
- The highway of post-capitular renewal
- Decentralization and unity in the Congregation today
- Continue reading “Luigi Ricceri – Unity in the Congregation – How decentralization works – Towards a campaign of fidelity”
Luigi Ricceri – Our care for the Cooperators
Summary:
- Good news and sad news
- Our care for the Cooperators
- lnformation on the present situation
- Promising post-capitular features
- Areas of darkness
- Continue reading “Luigi Ricceri – Our care for the Cooperators”
Luigi Ricceri – The Missions the way to renewal
Summary:
- Transfer from Turin
- Reasons for transfer to Rome
- Audience with Pope
- With Don Bosco hence with the Pope
- Continue reading “Luigi Ricceri – The Missions the way to renewal”
Luigi Ricceri – From confreres’ letters – Attitude of the true son of Don Bosco – The Superiors elected by 20th General Chapter – We are all at the service of the Congregation – Love of the confreres, the first duty of the Superior – To serve the good of the community – Confreres and Superiors in communion – The Superior, creator of unity in the Congregatlon – The divine will, meeting place of Superiors and confreres – Authority and the protection of liberty – Superiors responsible for renewal.
Summary:
- From confreres’ letters
- Attitude of the true son of Don Bosco
- The Superiors elected by 20th General Chapter
- We are all at the service of the Congregation
- Continue reading “Luigi Ricceri – From confreres’ letters – Attitude of the true son of Don Bosco – The Superiors elected by 20th General Chapter – We are all at the service of the Congregation – Love of the confreres, the first duty of the Superior – To serve the good of the community – Confreres and Superiors in communion – The Superior, creator of unity in the Congregatlon – The divine will, meeting place of Superiors and confreres – Authority and the protection of liberty – Superiors responsible for renewal.”
Egidio Viganò – «Don Bosco, Saint»
Contents:
- Introduction.
- Don Bosco’s canonisation.
- Our religious consecration.
- The main qualities in salesian holiness: serve the Lord in gladness; an oratorian heart; attracting the love of our charges; the asceticism of the daily grind.
Egidio Viganò – Our fidelity to Peter’s successor
Contents:
- An opportune invitation.
- Don Bosco’s very concrete “Church sense”.
- A new style of exercising Peter’s ministry.
- A difficult situation.
Continue reading “Egidio Viganò – Our fidelity to Peter’s successor”
Egidio Viganò – Memory of origins
Contents:
- A disquieting challenge.
- “Strengthen your brothers”.
- Appraising the crisis.
- Our approach to a critical appraisal.
Luigi Ricceri – Postscript: A grave loss
Contents:
- Fervent, humble and trusting prayer.
- Divine Providence now summons us to look forward.
- My cordial and brotherly greeting.
Miguel Canino Zanoletty – “Los cardenales protectores de la Congregación Salesiana (1879-1970). Esbozo histórico de una institución singular” in “Ricerche Storiche Salesiane”
El objetivo principal de este estudio es ofrecer una visión histórica de conjunto sobre una institución que jugó un papel relevante, sobre todo, en las primeras décadas de vida de la Congregación.
Stanisław Zimniak – “Sulle obiezioni circa i nove voti positivi espressi dai consultori teologi sulla «positio» per il processo di beatificazione e di canonizzazione del servo di Dio cardinale August Hlond, primate della Polonia” in “Ricerche Storiche Salesiane”
Il 9 marzo 2017, nel corso del Congresso peculiare dei Consultori teologi, è stata votata la Positio super vita, virtutibus, fama sanctitatis del Servo di Dio cardinale August Hlond, primate della Polonia, socio della congregazione salesiana e fondatore della Societatis Christi Pro Emigrantibus (1881-1948).
Thomas Anchukandam – “Kristu Jyoti college, Bangalore: the history and significance of the opening of the first Salesian institution in the archdiocese of Bangalore – Part II” in “Ricerche Storiche Salesiane”
Kristu Jyoti College, built and launched on its mission of theological formation of the Salesians in the whole of India, was envisioned and realized in a fast-changing post-colonial world which was throwing up daunting challenges for the Church and consecrated life in general and for the Salesian Congregation with its professed goal of catering to the young and the needy in particular and that at a time when newly independent India was seeking to find its place in the comity of nations.
Giovanni Bosco – Elenchus privilegiorum seu facultatum et gratiarum spiritualium quibus potitur Societas s. Francisci Salesii ex S. Sedis Apostolicae concessionibus directe et Congregationis SS. Redemptoris communicatione in usum presbyterorum eiusdem societatis
Priusquam typis excuderetur, attenta ac severa trutina, quoad ejus fieri potuit, permagnum opus pensatum fuit ab aliquibus Congregationis nostrae theologis, qui testati sunt nihil censura dignum in ipso contineri, omniaque ad ecclesiae leges, aliisque Congregationibus factas Apostolicas concessiones conformata ac consona esse. Quod vero ad nos attinet, testamur, omnia Diplomata et Documenta, quae in eodem opere adferuntur, authentica et vel ex archivio nostro generali, vel ex aliis locis omnino fide dignis deprompta esse.
Ángel Fernández Artime – Un passato che illumina il nostro presente. In dialogo con Don Paolo Albera
Indice:
- 1. Salesiano della “prima ora”.
- 1.1. Da ragazzo che ha respirato l’“aria di Valdocco” a Successore di Don Bosco.
- 1.2. Che cosa ha significato per don Albera essere uno dei primi salesiani? Alcuni scorci della sua vita.
Ángel Fernández Artime – Un passé qui éclaire notre présent. En dialogue avec le Père Paul Albera
Sommaire:
- 1. Salésien de la «première heure».
- 1.1. De l’enfant qui a respiré l’«air du Valdocco» au Successeur de Don Bosco.
- 1.2. Qu’est-ce que cela a signifié pour le Père Albera d’être l’un des premiers Salésiens ? Quelques aperçus sur sa vie.
Ángel Fernández Artime – «Signes et porteurs de l’amour de Dieu pour les jeunes, spécialement les plus pauvres» (C 2) Un sexennat qui demande audace, prophétie et fidélité
Sommaire:
- Un temps de précarité.
- Une manière croyante de voir la réalité et le monde.