The conflict between Archbishop Lawrence Gastaldi and Don Bosco may at first sight appear to have been, to put a facile contemporary label on it, a typical confrontation between institution and charism.
Continue reading “Arthur Lenti – The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict (1872-82), Part I”
Don Bosco’s biographer, Father John Baptist Lemoyne, notes that most of the boys who attended Don Bosco’s evening classes were hard-working young apprentices or youths who worked wherever they could find a job.
In Part One of the present installment (Part Four overall), we shall discuss the last two dreams in a similar manner to the first article. Part Two (Five) will deal with the significance of the missionary dreams, with interpretative comments.
Continue reading “Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s Missionary Dreams (Part II)”
Because of the vastness of the subject and of the amount of material involved, this essay will be presented in two installments.
Continue reading “Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s missionary dreams (Part I)”
Included in the copious documentation that comprises the chronicles and annals of the early history of the Salesian Society in the Salesian archives in Rome, there is a treasure trove of diaries, journals, memoirs, and daybooks which chart the ebb and flow of the early years of the Oratory of Saint Francis of Sales.
Don Bosco then goes on to describe the nature and purpose of the Convitto. It was a kind of ‘ finishing school’ where (he says) “one learnt to be a priest.”
Continue reading “Arthur Lenti – The Convitto Ecclesiastico – “Where one learnt to be a priest””
One spring day in 1860 Don Bosco was startled by a newsvendor’s cry. “Read all about it! Don Bosco in jail!” He was both amused and bemused.
Continue reading “Michael Ribotta – Hero or villain: Don Bosco as seen in the press of his time”
The reader may be surprised to learn that at the first canonical assembly of Salesians, Don Bosco was equating fidelity to our Society with the broad road of “Salesianity” mapped out in such a human and holy way by Saint Francis of Sales himself.
Continue reading “Jack Ayers – The “Salesianity” that wins all hearts”
Father Philip Rinaldi was my granduncle on myfather’s side. For us youngsters he was the tall, smiling priest who, when visiting our home, would dig into his pockets and invariably come up with all sorts of goodies.
Continue reading “Peter Rinaldi – Blessed Philip Rinaldi as I knew him”
L’intervento accosta il tema della pedagogia salesiana della scelta e della vocazione su tre livelli. Il punto di partenza è la sintesi di alcuni fondamentali cambiamenti della pedagogia salesiana della vocazione legata alle esigenze e ai cambiamenti nel post-Concilio Vaticano II. Nel secondo livello si delineano alcuni principi pedagogici che si riferiscono all’esperienza fondamentale di don Bosco, alla storia degli effetti delle scelte post-conciliari e ad alcune sfide del contesto post-moderno. Infine, il terzo livello del contributo concretizza alcune proposte legate ai principi pedagogici salesiani e ai processi di progettazione educativo-pastorale in chiave trasformativa. Continue reading “Michal Vojtáš – Pedagogia salesiana della scelta e della vocazione: evoluzioni, riletture e proposte”
Una prima formulazione del presente argomento delimitava la direzione spirituale di S. M. Domenica Mazzarello all’ambito delle Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice: « Il carisma di Maria Mazzarello nella direzione spirituale delle Figie di Maria Ausiliatrice ».
L’attuale formulazione estende l’ambito di tale direzione a tutto l ’arco cronologico in cui M. D. Mazzarello svolge una particolare azione educativa orientata ad aiutare diverse categorie di persone nella loro crescita umana e cristiane, il quale precede il periodo della sua vita religiosa.
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