Don Bosco’s vocation dreams hold an important place in Don Bosco’s vocational development and in the process by which his lifework was determined and specified.
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Richard Wanner – Don Bosco’s gift to the Church: a spirituality for youth
St. John Bosco (1815-1888) was a product of Piedmont in northern Italy. His seventy-two years spanned a time of industrialization in Turin and other major cities and the complexities of Italian unification. Despite an often harsh anti-clerical atmosphere and the volatile political situation , a number of saints rose to prominence in nineteenth century Piedmont.
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Michael Ribotta – The day they shut down the oratory school
On June 30, 1879, after numerous attempts to stave off the inevitable, Don Bosco was finally compelled to shut down his oratory school in Valdocco.
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Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s Boswell: John Baptist Lemoyne-the man and his work
Part I will present a biographical sketch of the man; Part II will deal with the sources and the editorial history of the Biographical Memoirs; and Part III will inquire into the historical criteria and into the method with which the author worked, for an evaluation (by way of conclusion) of the historical character of the Biographical Memoirs.
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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.
Arthur Lenti – The earliest biographies of Don Bosco and their english translations
Therefore, all early biography on Don Bosco, including Fr. Lemoyne’s and his successors’, should be approached with the right understanding of its popular medieval religious roots. On no account ought it to be dismissed as novelized history, which it is not.
Michael Ribotta – Don Bosco’s battle against illiteracy
in this article M. Ribotta explains Don Bosco’s commitment to promoting education in Turin.
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Paolo Albera – Convocazione del Capitolo Generale XII – La revisione delle Costituzioni – Il terzo Centenario della morte di S. Francesco di Sales
In questa lettera, il Rettor Maggiore Paolo Albera scrive a riguardo della convocazione del Capitolo Generale, del terzo centenario della morte di San Francesco di Sales, della revisione delle Costituzioni.
Paolo Albera – Sulle vocazioni
In questa lettera, il Rettor Maggiore Paolo Albera scrive a riguardo delle vocazioni, come coltivarle e come accompagnarle e delle deliberazioni del Capitolo Superiore.
Paolo Albera – D. Bosco modello del Sacerdote Salesiano
In questa lettera, il Rettor Maggiore Paolo Albera scrive a riguardo del modello di Don Bosco per i sacerdoti salesiani, della formazione e della spiritualità salesiana.
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Michele Rua – Le virtù del Salesiano.
Tutti i Soci conducono vita comune, stretti solamente dal vincolo della carità e dei voti semplici, il che li unisce in guisa da formare un cuor solo ed un ’anima sola per amare e servire Iddio. Queste parole lette nell’art. 7 delle Costituzioni, sgorgarono dal cuore di D.Bosco ardente della più viva carità. Esse mostrano che, mentre la carità è la sostanza della vita cristiana, molto più è l’anima della vita religiosa. Continue reading “Michele Rua – Le virtù del Salesiano.”
Paolo Albera – Memorabile udienza pontificia e notizie care
In questa lettera, il Rettor Maggiore Paolo Albera scrive a riguardo delle Costituzioni, del Cardinale Cagliero e della devozione a Maria Ausiliatrice a San Giuseppe, patrono della Chiesa Cattolica.
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