Summary:
- Centennial of Salesian Missions: opening celebrations
- Personal spiritual direction: we need men of God to guide us
- Formation must be personal
- Training one’s conscience
- Those who take the leading part in spiritual formation
- The Role of spiritual direction:
- lt is a human need
- lt is a constant praxis in the Church
- lt is a fundamental characteristic of Don Bosco
- Confession and direction in Don Bosco’s educational system.
- From the early days to the present
- Let the Director be once again a father to the confreres!
- A practical advice of Fr. Caviglia
- Renewed spiritual guides are needed
- Selecting those directly in charge of formation
- These present-day needs of spiritual direction
- The duty of secrecy
- Conclusion: a serious examination of conscience.
Reference time period: 1976
L. Ricceri, We need men of God to guide us, in «Acts of The Superior Counsil of the Salesian Society» 57 (1976) 281, 3-47.
Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB