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.
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.
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.
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.
Continue reading “Philip J. Pascucci – Out of our past an american venture into seminary training”
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.
Continue reading “Joseph Boenzi – St. Francis de Sales, bibliography of publications in English”
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.
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)”
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.
Continue reading “Philip J. Pascucci – Once upon a time in old New York”
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.
Chiamati nel 1897 per l’assistenza religiosa alle migliaia di immigrati italiani di San Francisco, i salesiani nell’ambito della parrocchia etnica dei Santi Pietro e Paolo avevano necessariamente operato con sollecitudine anche in favore della gioventù, cui andava, per motivi carismatici, il loro interesse.
La risonanza nazionale ed internazionale del nome di don Bosco, la sua fama in alcuni ambienti vaticani, la sua nota sollecitudine per le missioni ad gentes e gli emigrati italiani in America Latina, la «propaganda» dei loro esiti positivi effettuata attraverso il «Bollettino Salesiano», furono all’origine delle richieste che pervennero ai salesiani di Torino di fondare opere negli Stati Uniti.
La Bolla Munificentissimus Deus, le Allocuzioni del Santo Padre in occasione della Definizione Dommatica, la nuova Messa per il 15 agosto, intessuta di gemme scritturali a onore dell’Assunta, la fervida e luminosa « Preghiera a Maria SS. Assunta », composta da Sua Santità per il 1° novembre e da Lui letta alla vigilia e nel radioso mattino della Solennità, offriranno alla fede e allo zelo preziosi spunti dottrinali, morali, liturgici, per far sì che dalla Festa Mariana confratelli e giovani ricavino accrescimento di vera divozione alla Madonna con rinnovati propositi di pietà, di candore, di adesione pratica e fattiva al Vicario di Cristo in quest’ora nuovamente trepida per l’umanità.
Nell’immensa letteratura sul terremoto che colpì la città di San Francisco in California (USA) dal 18 al 20 aprile 1906, non sono ancora state rese note nella loro interezza le dirette testimonianze dei salesiani che colà si trovavano addetti alle Chiese etniche dei SS. Pietro e Paolo, del Corpus Christi (e di San Giuseppe nella vicina città di Oakland).
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