Contents:
- “Our African commitment”
- The Rector Major in Black Africa
- This is Africa’s hour
Francis J. Moloney – Salesians beyond 2000
In the article, Fr. Frank looks at the images of God and Community and poses questions that young people in Western Societies are facing on the threshold of the Third Millennium. He moves from the contemporary to the scriptural, and looks at the figure of Jesus and questions of discipleship as posed in the New Testament. What is the significance of discipleship in the Gospels? How does this significance speak to our reality? to our vocation as Christians, and as Salesians? These are the questions of the middle portion of Fr. Moloney’ s reflections.
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Michal Vojtáš – Corso di Sistema Preventivo – Unità 1: Il principio dell’amorevolezza che si traduce in assistenza attiva
Nella concezione educativa di Don Bosco il principio metodologico di base è stato il principio dell’amorevolezza: costruire fiducia, confidenza e amicizia attraverso un atteggiamento non facile di farsi prossimo ai giovani rispetto a tutta la loro vita. L’amorevolezza è quella bontà simpatica, quotidiana, affettiva ed effettiva nel desiderare il bene per la persona del giovane. Don Bosco raccomanda che gli educatori “come padri amorosi parlino, servano di guida ad ogni evenienza, diano consigli ed amorevolmente correggano”.
Giovanni Bosco – Reminders to practise the Preventive System (1884-1885)
In his 1877 booklet on pedagogy, Don Bosco highlights the advantages of the Preventive System and other reasons for which it should be preferred. At the same time he recognises that the “practical application” of the educational approach he is proposing implies “certain difficulties” for educators.
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Pietro Braido – Contemporaneità di Don Bosco nella pedagogia di ieri e di oggi
Per contribuire fin dall’inizio alla chiarezza del dialogo, si crede opportuno riassumere le conclusioni a cui si vuole arrivare, nello svolgimento del tema: 1. Don Bosco non è l’unico educatore o pedagogista del suo tempo, nè l’unico « grande » anche solo nel campo cattolico. 2. Don Bosco non è l’unico prete che nel suo tempo si sia interessato di ragazzi, di gioventù povera e abbandonata o no. 3. Tra essi Don Bosco è, indubbiamente, un «Grande»: soprattutto per avere approfondito intuitivamente e praticamente comuni esperienze educative, attuandole in forme ardite e organiche, e con vastità di visuale. Continue reading “Pietro Braido – Contemporaneità di Don Bosco nella pedagogia di ieri e di oggi”
Gustavo Fabian Cavagnari – Salesian youth ministry and family in the light of Amoris Laetitia
In these pages I would like to reflect on youth ministry with a special focus on family. I hope that, by the end of this reflection no one could say that most of the considerations made were on family ministry rather than on youth ministry. Nevertheless, I think we cannot have a different approach to the subject – youth ministry – when as Church and as Congregation we have had recently at least three magisterial indications in that direction: the letter of the Holy Father on the bicentennial of the birth of St. John Bosco, his apostolic exhortation on love in the family, and the 2017 Strenna of the Rector Major.
Sabino Frigato – Educazione ed evangelizzazione. La riflessione della Congregazione salesiana nel Postconcilio
Lo studio che viene proposto prende in esame “quanto” e “come” la Congregazione salesiana, a partire dal Concilio Vaticano II a oggi, ha riflettuto sulla natura della sua missione educativa e pastorale tra i giovani. Punto di partenza di questa indagine è il CG19 celebratosi nella primavera del 1965 a lavori conciliari ancora in corso. Negli Atti del CG la Congregazione esprime in modo netto la propria identità educativa consolidata dalla tradizione salesiana e sintetizzabile nello slogan formare “buoni cristiani e onesti cittadini”. Continue reading “Sabino Frigato – Educazione ed evangelizzazione. La riflessione della Congregazione salesiana nel Postconcilio”
Rik Biesmans – Don Bosco & Saint Francis De Sales (1842-1880). Concerning the question whether Don Bosco was influenced by Francis de Sales in both his personal faith and his pastoral-pedagogical practice
While preparing pilgrimages and spiritual exercises in Annecy and the neighborhood, I discovered reliable sources among the German and Dutch Oblates of St Francis de Sales. As a consequence of keeping contact with various participants, they invited the undersigned to take part in the annual meetings of their Arbeitsgemeinschaft (“study group”) in Eichstätt, Germany.
Miguel Angel García Morcuende – Personal accompaniment in the salesian educative-pastoral plan
In many a document the Church has defined the nature, goal and elements of youth ministry and has included it neatly in the methods of evangelization in its different stages. We can proudly say that the Salesian educative-pastoral plan has been, and continues to be, in line with the Church’s evangelizing mission.
Emmanuel Camilleri – Characteristic traits of the spiritual accompaniment of the young. As an integral part of the educational system of Don Bosco – Part 1
The following four-part article has as its objective a particular aspect of Don Bosco’s charism: the spiritual accompaniment of the young. This theme, which is very relevant for today, is significant since it is fundamental to Don Bosco’s educational system and it is a characteristic of us Salesians, as accompaniers of the young.
John Roche – Salesian evangelization. At the threshold of the bicentennial of Don Bosco’s birth – Part 2
MaryJo Leddy explained that in her act of accompaniment with many of the young adults assisting in her ministry to the refugees, she found herself taking a lead from them. She has found a voice of conscience and concern in this generation. She is touched by their thirst and hunger for holiness and authenticity.