CONTENTS
- The message of Don Rua’s Successor to the Cooperators
- The second Successor of Don Bosco
- In memory of D. Rua
- Salesian Notes and New
Continue reading “Salesian Bulletin – Salesian Bulletin, n° 22, 1910”
Adolfo L’Arco – Don Cimatti: il Don Bosco del Giappone
Il testo è una raccolta di documenti e testimonianze che hanno come protagonista la figura di Don Vincenzo Cimatti, definito anche come il Don Bosco del Giappone. Continue reading “Adolfo L’Arco – Don Cimatti: il Don Bosco del Giappone”
Maria Mukai Yumiko – “Brief historical notes on the foundation of the sisters of charity of Miyazaki” in “The beginnings of the salesian presence in East Asia” Acts of the seminar on salesian history, Hong Kong, 4-6 December 2004. Vol II
This article recounts the historical backdrop of the Salesian missionaries’ arrival in Miyazaki, Japan, in 1926, coinciding with the promulgation of Pope Pius XI’s encyclical “Rerum Ecclesiae.”
Carlo Socol – “I salesiani (FMA e SDB) in Cina, Giappone e Thailandia: problematiche relative all’introduzione del carisma di Don Bosco nell’Est Asia”
Il periodo dei rettorati di don Filippo Rinaldi (1922-1931) e di don Pietro Ricaldone (1931-1951) fu caratterizzato da una notevole espansione del lavoro salesiano nel mondo, avente come principali destinatarie e protagoniste le più popolose e culturalmente diverse nazioni asiatiche, realizzata con strategie innovative messe a punto gradualmente in un rapporto dialettico tra centro e periferia, e con il coinvolgimento della S. Sede che su una Congregazione salesiana in forte espansione aveva riposto notevole fiducia: espansione, strategie e rapporto dialettico che hanno plasmato le Missioni salesiane fino al Concilio.
Fiace Park – “Unity of life in Fr Vincent Cimatti, founder of the caritas sisters of Miyazaki” in “Implantation of the Salesian charism in Asia – Ideals, challenges, answers, results”
In recent years our Congregation of the Caritas Sisters of Miyazaki, especially the Province of Korea, experiences a fresh interest in the origins of our charism. The sisters talk about the primary importance of prayer and the secondary value of daily work.
Maria Mukai Yumiko – “Establishing the salesian charism in Japan in the process of founding the caritas sisters of Miyazaki” in “Implantation of the Salesian charism in Asia – Ideals, challenges, answers, results”
The 12th General Chapter of the Caritas Sisters of Miyazaki (SCM) held in September 2004, had for its scope the clarification of the charismatic and spiritual identity of the Institute and the renewal of its life and form of government.
Gaetano Compri – “The beginning and the development of the salesian work in Japan” in “The beginning of the Salesian presence in east Asia”.
To write this paper, I used a great part of the materials gathered by the deceased Fr. Alfonso Crevacore in the “Cimatti Museum” of Tokyo (CMT), situated in the Salesian Seminary of Chofu. It deals specially with the mail correspondence. The originals are found according to the container, or in the Vatican Archives, or in the Central Salesian Archives of Rome (ASC) or in the archive of the China Province in Hong Kong or in the said Cimatti Museum. Fr. Mario Rassiga’s manuscript “Breve cenno storico dell’opera salesiana in Cina” (vol. II, chapter XCIX, pp. 125-136), which reported the correspondence between the Holy See and the Superiors in Turin before the foundation of the Salesian work in Japan. One should note that the actual Japanese Province, up to I January 1928, was part of the Visitatoria of China, of which the superior was Fr. Ignazio Canazei. Continue reading “Gaetano Compri – “The beginning and the development of the salesian work in Japan” in “The beginning of the Salesian presence in east Asia”.”
Gaetano Compri – “Implantation of the salesian charism in Japan. Reflections of Fr Cimatti on the formation of personnel in loco” in “Implantation of the Salesian charism in Asia – Ideals, challenges, answers, results”
The first nine Salesian missionaries arrived in Japan on 8 February 1926 under the leadership of Fr Vincenzo Cimatti. They were entrusted with the two provinces of Miyazaki and Oita, far away from the big cities, where they succeeded the missionaries of the Foreign Missions of Paris (MEP).
Nestor Impelido – “The growth of the salesian charism in the EAO region: religious institutes founded by salesians” in “Implantation of the Salesian charism in Asia – Ideals, challenges, answers, results”
This study also aims to present the various congregations founded by some of the Salesian missionaries who worked in the East Asian region of the known Salesian world.
Maria Mukai Yumiko – “Brief historical notes on the foundation of the sisters of charity of Miyazaki” in “L’educazione salesiana in Europa negli anni difficili del XX secolo”
ln the year in which Pope Pius XI promulgated the encyclical Rerum Ecclesiae (1926),on 16 February 1926, the Salesian missionaries arrived in Miyazaki, Japan, center of their mission, and capital of the province in the Island of Kyushu.
Marisa Gambato – “The history of the mission of the daughters of Mary help of Christians inserted in the history of Salvation” in “L’educazione salesiana in Europa negli anni difficili del XX secolo”
The first article of the constitution of the FMA expresses this characteristic of the institute as follows:
“Through the gift of the Holy Spiril and the direct intervention of Mary, St. John Bosco Founded our Institute as a response of salvation to the profound hopes of young girls. He endowed it with a spiritual heritage that had its inspiration in the charity of Christ the Good Shepherd, and imparted to it a strong missionary impulse”. (Const.I ).
Pietro Ricaldone – Atti del Capitolo superiore della Società salesiana
Nell’anno centenario della fondazione del primo Oratorio è bene mettere nella miglior luce il grande dono che la Vergine Immacolata fece alla gioventù guidando il suo fedele servo Don Bosco a questa terra benedetta, destinata ad essere centro e foco d’irradiazione delle Opere salesiane a salvezza delle anime.
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Pietro Ricaldone – “Lettera del Rettor Maggiore” in “Atti del Capitolo superiore della società salesiana”
Si avvicina il mese consacrato alla Madre amantissima Maria Ausiliatrice e, come negli anni scorsi, esorta a moltiplicare preghiere e suppliche ai piedi dei suoi altari per ottenere, mediante la sua intercessione, l’avvento tanto sospirato della pace. Notizie consolanti: Mons. Guglielmo Piani comunica che potè, malgrado tutto, continuare la sua importante missione. Mons. Mathias parla dei Salesiani usciti dai campi di concentramento, del progresso delle opere esistenti e dell’inizio di altre nuove.
Pietro Ricaldone – “Lettera del Rettor Maggiore” in “Atti del Capitolo superiore della società salesiana”
Si avvicinano le Feste Natalizie e Don Ricaldone desidera giunga la sua parola di paterno affetto, di augurio, di benedizione. Gli preme invitare a innalzare lo sguardo al Cielo, perchè da esso scende tra armonie di pace, quel Gesù che a tutti porta amore e salvezza.