Congratulations on your hundred years of faithful work with and for Don Bosco, with and for young people and with and for so many good people of this great country, to bring the message of the Lord to the young in their own context.
Arthur Lenti – The founding and early expansion of the salesian work in the San Francisco area from Archival Documents
Recently the Central Salesian Archives released the files of the Rua rectorate on some 1,750 microfiches. This boon has made archival research in that rectorate possible even for students residing away from the Central Archives.
Philip J. Pascucci – Out of our past an american venture into seminary training
That is part of the well known talk which Don Bosco gave to his boys when they were forced to move from place to place for their Sunday gatherings. That became known as the wandering oratory. This is the story of another transplanting, another wandering.
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Joseph Boenzi – St. Francis de Sales, bibliography of publications in English
Over the last number of years “Salesian Spirituality,” first articulated by Francis de Sales and Jane Frances de Chantal, has attracted renewed interest in English-speaking countries.
Theirs has been called a “spirituality of the heart,” and their prayer style has been dubbed intuitive, simple, spacious but unified and holistic.
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Michael Ribotta – Discovering America: Father Raphael Pipemi and the first salesian missionaries in North America
A young Italian immigrant, Angelo Petazzi, watched anxiously as the English steamship, the Werra, approached New York harbor. Clutched in his hand was a letter from the then Salesian superior general, Father Michael Rua, which informed him of the impending arrival of a group of four Salesians in New York. At their head was Father Raphael Piperni.
Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s Missionary Dreams (Part II)
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.
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Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s missionary dreams (Part I)
Because of the vastness of the subject and of the amount of material involved, this essay will be presented in two installments.
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Philip J. Pascucci – Once upon a time in old New York
During the years following the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the Italian immigrant made his way, educated his children, and contributed his many talents to the great melting pot, not only in New York City, but in the whole of the United States.
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Michael Ribotta – ‘The road not taken”–The Salesians’ circuitous road to North America
In the fall of 1870, for reasons that have never been documented, Don Bosco did not answer Archbishop Joseph Alemany’s invitation to travel the El Camino Real in the land of El Dorado.
José Arnalot – Giornata di studio sul missionario salesiano Luis Bolla (Yánkuam’): José Arnalot
José Arnalot, per due anni compagno di lavoro di Yánkuam’ tra gli Achuar della selva amazonica, ha illustrato la personalità del missionario e il suo stile di vita tra gli Achuar
Antonino Colajanni – Giornata di studio sul missionario salesiano Luis Bolla (Yánkuam’): Antonino Colajanni
Antonino Colajanni, antropologo, Professore Ordinario in pensione, di Discipline Antropologi che, presso l’Università di Roma “La Spienza”, ha riflettuto criticamente sull’apportosingolare offerto da Luis Bolla all’antropologia culturale