Contents:
- Presentation
- Decree
- Promulgation of the constitutions and general regulations of the Society of st Francis de Sales
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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Egidio Viganò – The Salesian Mission and the Workers’World
Contents:
- Thinking over the journey
- A call from the southern hemisphere
- The importance of the workers’ world
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Egidio Viganò – The 22nd General Chapter
Contents:
- Introduction
- Convocation of the Chapter
- An event that challenges our spiritual maturity
Luigi Ricceri – A New Series of the Acts Begin
Contents:
- The ASG as a Means of Animation
- Historical Background
- A New Series of the Acts Begin
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Luigi Ricceri – Another word on prayer
Contents:
- Happy news: Bp. Trochta made cardinal
- Four months of work
- Top priority to formation
Luigi Ricceri – Convocation of the 21st General Chapter
Contents:
- 1.1 Convocation of the 21st General Chapter
- 1.2 “We are undertaking a matter of the greatest importance” (D. Bosco)
- 1.3 Two additional news items
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Luigi Ricceri – Family News
Contents:
- Family News
- Don Bosco wanted Salesian news
- Spreading Family news
- Salesian news is absolutely necessary today
Luigi Ricceri – Our responsibility in the light of the Acts of the XIXth General Chapter
Contents:
- 1. The new series of the “Acts of the Superior Council”
- 2. Consoling union of minds and hearts
- 3. Our responsibility in the light of the Acts of the XIXth General Chapter
Arthur Lenti – Politics of the “Our Father” and the holy father: Don Bosco’s mediation in Church-State affairs
Fr. Arthur J. Lenti tells the story of Don Bosco’ s efforts to mediate between the Holy See and the Italian government during the tense years of Italian unification. Of special importance was the appointment of bishops. After offering background on the historical events leading to the estrangement between the Church and state in Italy, the author goes to the sources in an effort to answer the question why someone so politically unimportant as Don Bosco, should become involved in a capacity of “negotiator.”
Giovanni Bosco – Deliberations of the last General Chapters Don Bosco presided over (1883-1886)
Amongst the documents drawn up by the third (1883) and fourth (1886) General Chapter of the Salesian Congregation – which the founder also took part in – of particular merit is the new Regulations for the festive oratories and deliberations regarding Orientations for the working boys in Salesian houses. The two documents were published, as already recorded, in 1887.
Giovanni Bosco – First salesian colleges founded outside Turin (1863-1864)
“One and not the last study by Don Bosco this year,” writes J. B. Lemoyne referring to 1863 “was the foundation of the college at Mirabello. He had written up its regulations, using the ones at the Oratory as a basis, specifying all the duties of individual superiors and of the pupils, changing what might not be appropriate for the nature of this Institute.” These “regulations,” that remained simply handwritten for many years, according to what we have from Lemoyne, “had to be the founding statute for all the other Houses that would be opened over time. This meant they were given much importance.”
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