I have been given the mandate to speak to you today on the theme: “How the Word of God shapes our community and our mission today.” I was not sure how to handle this very large question in a couple of talks and a discussion session. Biblical themes abound. But in the end, I thought that the best way to reflect on the way the word of God shapes our community and mission today was to reflect upon “the Word of God.” Continue reading “Francis J. Moloney – Jesus and Salesian Discipleship”
El objetivo principal de este estudio es ofrecer una visión histórica de conjunto sobre una institución que jugó un papel relevante, sobre todo, en las primeras décadas de vida de la Congregación.
Nel pieno della Grande Guerra il giovane Mario Marega trascorse due anni a Vienna, dal 1916 al 1918, nel convitto affidato dal Ministero degli Interni alla direzione della Congregazione Salesiana.
Among Saint John Bosco’s early disciples, Paolo Albera (1845-1921) was one who was called upon to articulate and defend the founder’s spirit. Even as a youth, he had been numbered among Don Bosco’s most beloved. He served in a variety of leadership positions from his teenage years until his election as rector major in 1910. Perhaps his most significant role before becoming superior general was that of spiritual director general of the Salesian Society, a post he held from 1892 until 1910. Continue reading “Joseph Boenzi – Paolo Albera’s instructions early efforts to inculcate the Spirit of Don Bosco”
The second part of this study published in the previous issue of this journal had situated Kristu Jyoti College in its wider historical context.
Mary Mazzarello had not seen Don Bosco until October of 1864, when he visited Mornese. In fact, it was not until 1871, some seven years later, that she came under the direct authority of the Founder, when the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians was founded. However, she seems to have been well prepared for her work with Don Bosco and the Salesians, both in her philosophical formation and her life experiences. Continue reading “Kaoru Tamura – Something about Mary. Reflections on Don Bosco, mother Mazzarello and the development of the “Spirit of Mornese””
Who was Margaret Occhiena Bosco? What do we know about her, and how? Don Bosco’s biographer, Fr. John Baptist Lemoyne, and ultimately Don Bosco, are our chief sources. The Biographical Memoirs contain abundant biographical material pertaining to Don Bosco’s mother. Volume I in particular, especially in its first part (Chapters 2-25), gives much more space to Margaret (affectionately known as Mamma Margaret) than it does to John. Where did Lemoyne get the information? Father Lemoyne had not known Mamma Margaret personally. She had lived at the Oratory from 1846 until her death in 1856, and Lemoyne had joined Don Bosco only in 1864, 8 years after Mamma Margaret’s death. However, passionately engaged as he was in collecting and recording everything that had to do with Don Bosco and his work, he was eager to gather information also on Don Bosco’s mother. Continue reading “Arthur Lenti – Margaret Occhiena Bosco (1788-1856). Don Bosco’s Mother, Educator and Vocational Support”
Dagli esempi elencati si può concludere che l’arcivescovo Baraniak, fino alla fine della sua vita, si sentì un salesiano e molte volte ci diede prova di questo.
Il 9 marzo 2017, nel corso del Congresso peculiare dei Consultori teologi, è stata votata la Positio super vita, virtutibus, fama sanctitatis del Servo di Dio cardinale August Hlond, primate della Polonia, socio della congregazione salesiana e fondatore della Societatis Christi Pro Emigrantibus (1881-1948).
It is quite natural that anyone who intends to profile a Salesian personality in South India would quite naturally think of Fr. Philip Thayil as someone deserving of being made known to a wider Salesian readership.
Kristu Jyoti College, built and launched on its mission of theological formation of the Salesians in the whole of India, was envisioned and realized in a fast-changing post-colonial world which was throwing up daunting challenges for the Church and consecrated life in general and for the Salesian Congregation with its professed goal of catering to the young and the needy in particular and that at a time when newly independent India was seeking to find its place in the comity of nations.
L’articolo mette in rilievo l’aspetto più profondo e decisivo dello “spirito salesiano”, cioè la sua dimensione verticale, che ispira lo stile di preghiera del Salesiano, la sua relazione con Dio, la sua “spiritualità”, il suo modo di contemplare Dio, di tenersi davanti a Lui e di trattare con Lui. Continue reading “Joseph Aubry – Lo spirito salesiano. Stile di preghiera”
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