Category: Spiritualità

Giovanni Bosco – Circular letters to Salesians and the Daughters of Mary Help of christians



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Don Bosco’s Circular letters to the Salesians and Daughters of Mary Help of Christians are small masterpieces of spirituality. The Saint expresses in them a vigorous view of consecrated life: by the vows we give ourselves completely to the Lord, ready to follow him through tribulations until death, courageously facing up to fatigue and difficulty in order to win souls for God. Seen this way the Salesian and the Salesian Sister are encouraged to remain firm in their vocation; to flee worldly spirit; to practise obedience and poverty magnanimously; to cultivate union with God and confidence in their Superiors; to know how to put up with all kinds of inconvenience serenely to “save souls”; to faithfully observe the rules.

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Maria Dosio,Maria Gannon,Maria Marchi,Maria Piera Manello – «Io ti darò la maestra…». Il coraggio di educare alla scuola di Maria. Atti del Convegno Mariano Internazionale promosso dalla Pontificia Facoltà di Scienze dell’Educazione “Auxilium” – Roma, 27-30 dicembre 2004



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Giovanni Bosco – Reminders to practise the Preventive System (1884-1885)



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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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Aldo Giraudo – Interrogativi e spinte della Chiesa del postconcilio sulla spiritualità salesiana



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Chi un giorno vorrà cimentarsi nella ricostruzione storica dei percorsi di attuazione del Concilio Vaticano II da parte della Famiglia Salesiana, si troverà ad analizzare una varietà di eventi e realizzazioni, coordinati dall’alto o promananti dalla base, che testimoniano l’entusiasmo, la cordiale apertura e il grande fervore operativo del postconcilio. Il rinnovamento conciliare era atteso e desiderato. I frutti più evidenti sono stati, innanzitutto, l’impegno di aggiornamento della vita religiosa e della specifica missione – sulla duplice linea del ritorno alle fonti, in fedeltà allo spirito del Vangelo e all’intenzione del Fondatore – e dell’adattamento alle mutate condizioni dei tempi, nella sensibilità alle indicazioni di rinnovamento della Chiesa e agli appelli del mondo e dei giovani (PC 2). Continue reading “Aldo Giraudo – Interrogativi e spinte della Chiesa del postconcilio sulla spiritualità salesiana” →

Grazia Loparco,Maria Piera Manello – Maria nell’educazione di Gesù Cristo e del cristiano 2. Approccio interdisciplinare a Gv 19,25-27



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Il presente volume raccoglie gli Atti del pre-seminario svolto all’Auxilium l’8 febbraio 2003 sul tema: Maria nell’educazione di Gesù Cristo e del cristiano in cui si è avviato un confronto tra discipline teologiche e scienze dell’educazione. Esso si pone come prosecuzione della riflessione sul medesimo tema affrontato in un precedente seminario, i cui Atti sono stati pubblicati dall’Editrice LAS nel 2002.

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Marcella Farina,Maria Marchi – Maria nell’educazione di Gesù Cristo e del cristiano. 1. La pedagogia interroga alcune fonti biblico-teologiche



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Il presente volume contiene gli Atti del Seminario di studio sul tema Maria nell’educazione di Gesù Cristo e del cristiano svoltosi presso la Pontificia Facoltà di Scienze dell’Educazione Auxilium nel dicembre 2001.

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Eunan McDonnell – Holy indifference. Freeing the heart for pure love



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The theme of Pure Love is essential to understanding a Salesian spirituality as lived within the Visitandine tradition. This article explores pure love through the lens of holy indifference which is essential for true spiritual freedom. It concludes with an examination of holy indifference as lived by Mary the paradigm of pure love.

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Giovanni Bosco – Saint Dominique Savio 1842-1857



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Dominique est entré dans la vie de Don Bosco durant l’automne 1854. L’apôtre turinois avait alors trente-neuf ans. D’emblée, l’enfant et le prêtre s’étaient compris: Don Bosco put former Dominique selon l’idéal de sainteté qu’il portait en lui. Pendant vingt-huit mois, il veilla sur son âme. Toute son œuvre en bénéficia, car il semble bien que la température spirituelle de la «maison» du Valdocco monta en flèche de 1854 à 1857.
La fragilité naturelle de Dominique s’accrut malheureusement très vite et, le 9 mars 1857, il fut emporté par une maladie de poitrine, à quinze ans moins vingt-quatre jours.
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Suzanne C. Toczyski – ‘Because she has shown great love’. Female figures of the Gospels in St. Francis de Sales’ Traité de l’amour de Dieu



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In a very unique way, the women of the Gospels whose stories Francis cites are noteworthy in that they, to varying extents, enjoyed a personal relationship with Jesus himself, and thus with God. Their understanding of sacred love is therefore particularly profound.

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Giovanni Bosco – Saint Jean Bosco, Textes pédagogiques



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L’activité de saint Jean Bosco (1815-1888), fut assurément multiple. Mais elle se concentra en majeure partie sur l’éducation de la jeunesse. Il a formé, en 47 années passées à son service, plusieurs générations d’adolescents et, de surcroît, des centaines de futurs maîtres qui se sont réclamés de ses conseils et de ses exemples. Pour connaître sa méthode pédagogique, c’est sur sa vie qu’il convient d’abord de se pencher.
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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



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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.

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Miguel Angel García Morcuende – Personal accompaniment in the salesian educative-pastoral plan



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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.

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