Contents:
- 1. CONVOCATION OF THE GC 28
- 1.1. The choice of theme
- 1.2. Other tasks
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” (Jn 6,69). The word of God and Salesian Life today
Contents:
- 1. Contemplating Christ by listening to the Word of God
- 2. Listening to God’s Word as Salesians
- 2.1 Don Bosco, “priest of the Word”
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – A love without limits for God and the young
Contents:
- 1. Chastity for the Kingdom. What we have professed
- The cultural climate
- The inspiring certainty: a love which proclaims the Risen One and awaits him
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Egidio Viganò – “Be on the watch with your robes hitched up and your lamps alight”
Contents:
- “Religious life and discipline”
- Aversion to the concept of “discipline”
- Spiritual significance of the “Rule of life”
Egidio Viganò – The priest of the year 2000. A theme we have very much at heart
Contents:
- Introduction
- 150th anniversary of the priestly ordination of Don Bosco
- The Synod of 1990, on priestly formation at the present day
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Egidio Viganò – The renewed text of our Rule of Life
Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The turning point ot the Second Vatican Council
- 2. The four general-chapter stages
- 3. New perspectives in the rewritten text: Nature of the Constitutions
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Jesu Pudumai Doss – Accompagnamento dei giovani: diritti nella Chiesa
«Prendersi cura dei giovani non è un compito facoltativo per la Chiesa, ma parte sostanziale della sua vocazione e della sua missione nella storia» (n. 1). Così si leggeva nell’Instrumentum laboris per la XV Assemblea Generale Ordinaria del Sinodo dei Vescovi su I giovani, la fede e il discernimento vocazionale. Continue reading “Jesu Pudumai Doss – Accompagnamento dei giovani: diritti nella Chiesa”
Elisa Colì,Maurizio Norcia – Fede e benessere nei giovani dei CFP: una ricerca sul campo
Il contributo si colloca nell’ambito della ricerca che il CNOS-FAP e il CNR hanno condotto fra il 2017 e l’inizio del 2018 con l’obiettivo di studiare il livello di Benessere soggettivo degli studenti dei Centri di formazione professionale salesiana. In particolare ci si focalizza sul rapporto dei giovani con la Fede, una delle componenti fondamentali del benessere della persona, per esaminare sia quanto essa costituisca una risorsa per affrontare le difficoltà, sia il modo in cui i giovani se la rappresentano. Continue reading “Elisa Colì,Maurizio Norcia – Fede e benessere nei giovani dei CFP: una ricerca sul campo”
Giovanni Bosco – “Memoirs of the oratory”
Written over several occasions between 1873 and 1875, the manuscript of the Memoirs of the Oratory remained unpublished by Don Bosco’s explicit will. However Fr John Bonetti drew on it abundantly for his History of the Oratory of St Francis de Sales, (which found its way into English under a different title Don Bosco’s Early Apostolate) published as a series in the Salesian Bulletin between 1879 and1886. And Fr John Baptist Lemoyne included it in its entirety in the first volumes of the Biographical Memoirs, adding in other information and anecdotes drawn from other witnesses. The first complete edition of the Memoirs appeared in 1946. The decision to put the book in the public domain in its entirety was motivated by the universal dimension that the Saint has taken on, as Eugene Ceria wrote in the presentation: “Today Don Bosco has become part of history and also been listed among the saints.”
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Giovanni Bosco – The two “official” regulations (1877)
In the years from 1853 to 1862, Valdocco was transformed from a festive Oratory—an open institution—into a complex work: hospice and boarding, college with boarding section, trade workshops, internal classes and publishing centre, amongst the most important sections.
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