Contents:
- An opportune invitation.
- Don Bosco’s very concrete “Church sense”.
- A new style of exercising Peter’s ministry.
- A difficult situation.
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Egidio Viganò – The centenary of the death of Saint Mary Domenica Mazzarello
Contents:
- “REDISCOVERING THE SPIRIT OF MORNESE”
- Introduction
- A new gift of the Spirit to the Church
- Need for clarifying the distinctive ethos
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Egidio Viganò – «Don Bosco, Saint»
Contents:
- Introduction.
- Don Bosco’s canonisation.
- Our religious consecration.
- The main qualities in salesian holiness: serve the Lord in gladness; an oratorian heart; attracting the love of our charges; the asceticism of the daily grind.
Egidio Viganò – The Salesian according to Don Bosco’s dream of the diamonds
Contents:
- The Salesian according to Don Bosco’s dream of the dream of the ten diamonds.
- Introduccion.
- “The model of the true Salesian”.
- Importance given to the dream by Don Bosco.
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- Importance of the dream in our Salesian traditions.
- Don Rinaldi the most enlightened interpreter.
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Egidio Viganò – Rector Major’s trip to Puebla
Contents:
- Puebla provides a strong proclamation of the original nature of the Church’s mission, and in particular of the priestly and religious vocation.
- Puebla clarifies the dignity of man in the light of the Gospel, and courageously makes its own the present turning point in the field of anthropology.
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Egidio Viganò – Memory of origins
Contents:
- A disquieting challenge.
- “Strengthen your brothers”.
- Appraising the crisis.
- Our approach to a critical appraisal.
Egidio Viganò – Salesian educational project
Contents:
- In search of appropriate practise.
- The Preventive System of Don Bosco.
- Generality expressive of the Founder.
- A date in tradition.
- The basic element of our “charism”.
- The sure way to a true conversion.
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Egidio Viganò – The ASC as a means of animation
Contents:
- The ASC as a means of animation.
- Historical background.
- A new series of the acts begin.
- Importance of making good use of them.
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William John Dickson – Prevention or repression. The reception of Don Bosco’s educational approach in british salesian schools
The question that this paper seeks to explore is to what extent Don Bosco’s educational approach was received and accepted in England and to what extent it was itself modified in the process of meeting a new and alien culture. Part of the debate involves the English perception that some aspects of Don Bosco’s Preventive System to the eyes of some foreign Salesians the existence of corporal punishment in Salesian schools was a direct contradiction of Don Bosco’s approach to education. In order to understand this cultural incomprehension, this essay looks at the nature of the English educational context in Victorian England. It will highlight one particular issue where the Salesian approach to education was significantly modified by its experience in England i.e. how corporal punishment came to be incorporated into the practice in the English Salesian schools.
Luigi Ricceri – The Missions the way to renewal
Summary:
- Transfer from Turin
- Reasons for transfer to Rome
- Audience with Pope
- With Don Bosco hence with the Pope
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Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s Oratories in 1849-1852. Conflict, Crisis and Resolution
Don Bosco’s Oratory of St. Francis de Sales after much “wandering” found its permanent home at last in 1846, in an isolated house and property located in the district of Valdocco, on the northern fringe of the city of Turin. Once settled in that little house, Don Bosco established there a home to shelter the most destitute among the lads attending the oratory (1847). Continue reading “Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s Oratories in 1849-1852. Conflict, Crisis and Resolution”
Salvatore Cirillo Dama – “Cuarenta y cinco dias a orillas del rio Azopardo” in “Ricerche Storiche Salesiane”
En el museo salesiano “Maggiorino Borgatello” de Punta Arenas cayó bajo mis manos un manuscrito dactilografiado en que no se mencionaba el autor con el título “Cuarenta y cinco días a orillas del rio Azopardo” posteriormente pude averiguar que fue escrito por el padre Lorenzo Massa y el contenido corresponde a un relato testimonial del padre Luis Carnino a la época, director de la misión salesiana San Rafael de la isla Dawson (1889-1911), el mismo Carnino encabezó una expedición al occidente de Tierra del Fuego, proyecto ideado y organizado por Mons. José Fagnano sdb, Prefecto Apostólico de la Patagonia meridional, Tierra del Fuego e Islas Malvinas (1883-1916).