Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s vocation – mission dreams

Don Bosco’s vocation dreams hold an important place in Don Bosco’s vocational development and in the process by which his lifework was determined and specified.

Beginning with the original vocation dream (the Becchi or Morialdo Dream of 1824/5) these dreams appear to punctuate the development of his vocation and apostolate up to the settling in of his work of the oratory at Valdocco.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I. Witnesses and Reports of Don Bosco’s Vocation-Mission Dreams

1. 1. The Vocation-Mission Dream Line in Lemoyne’s Biographical Memoirs
   2. Text and Source-critical Study of the Vocation Mission Dream Narratives in Vol. I of the Biographical Memoirs
   3. Text and Source-Critical Study of the Vocation Mission Dream Narratives in Vol. II of the Biographical Memoirs
   4. Comparative Table and Reference Data of Dream Source Texts Compiled and Interpreted in the Biographical Memoirs

• Part II. Don Bosco’s Vocation-Mission Dreams in Their Historical Setting and Their Significance for Vocational Discernment at Critical Turning Points

1. 1. Evaluation of Data and Conclusions to Be Drawn from the Foregoing Text and Sourcecritical Study
   2. Don Bosco’s Memoirs-the Point of Reference
   3. First Vocational Awareness and the First Dream at the Age of Nine
   4. The Calosso Experience and the Dream of ‘Reprimand’
   5. Vocational Decision at Chieri
   6. Vocation Decision in 1844

• Conclusion
• APPENDIX I
• APPENDIX II
• APPENDIX III
• APPENDIX IV
• APPENDIX V
• APPENDIX VI
• APPENDIX VII
• APPENDIX VIII

Reference time period: 1824 – 1884

Reference institution:
Institute of Salesian Studies