Luigi Ricceri – Don Bosco saw the approval as God’s seal

Summary:

• A fruitful celebration
• 1. Don Bosco saw the approval as God’s seal
  • Fidelity to Rule and Mission
  • The Constitutions grew out of a way of life
  • 1874: definitive approval
• 2. A hundred years of fidelity
• • Continuing development of the text
  • Radical revision required by the Council
  • Thorough and conscientious preparation
  • A text less juridical and more spiritual
• 3. The Rule in the mind of Don Bosco
  • That the Society may endure
  • The Rule the expression of God’s designs
  • Charity  in observance
• 4. Practice of the Rule today
  • Emotional reaction
  • The Rule protects the individual and the community
  • The Rule favours Salesian communion
  • Fidelity to the Rule a matter of faith
  • A message for future generations.

Reference time period: 1974

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB