Contents:
- 1. Grace and mercy enfold our life
- “Mediante Christo”
- Freely given love and salesian practice
- 2. Love leads to judgement
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – «A love without limits for God and the young»
Contents:
- 1. Chastity for the Kingdom. What we have professed
- The cultural climate
- The inspiring certainty: a love which proclaims the Risen One and awaits him
- 2. Chastity and the salesian charism
- In the wake of a tradition
- At the service of educative love
- A sign of complete self-donation
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Egidio Viganò – And Mary laid him in a manger
Contents:
- Introduction
- At the core of salesian “significance”
- Light from the Word of God
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Egidio Viganò – The Challenge of Synod 80
Contents:
- 1. The recent Episcopal Synod
- 2. The importance of the family theme
- 3. Inspirational highlights of the Synod
- 4. Two basic principles: love and life
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Antonia Colombo – La profecía a la que está llamada la educación salesiana hoy
Este aporte ha sido ofrecido con ocasión del centenario de la presencia de las Hijas de Maria Auxiliadora en Colombia. Con estas reflexiones la autora desea unirse al camino de búsqueda de nuevos avances en la calidad educativa, tanto en el campo de la escuela, como también en los demás ambientes educativos salesianos del vasto continente americano.
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Giovanni Bosco – Pedagogical and didactic principles and disciplinary matters (1846-1879
The ten brief documents that follow—some perhaps less known than the previous ones in Salesian history—are also interesting from the point of view of the maturing and practice of Don Bosco’s educational system. We have a necessarily limited selection here of personal letters to people responsible for public education, or to young people and teachers, and circulars on pedagogical and didactic issues.
Giovanni Bosco – Reminders to practise the Preventive System (1884-1885)
In his 1877 booklet on pedagogy, Don Bosco highlights the advantages of the Preventive System and other reasons for which it should be preferred. At the same time he recognises that the “practical application” of the educational approach he is proposing implies “certain difficulties” for educators.
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Michele Rua – Istruzione sulla divozione al Ss. cuore di Gesù
Nei tempi nostri il Signore non tenne una via diversa da quella tenuta in antico. Che anzi, o fosse che ove abbondò l’iniquità volle che abbondasse la grazia, o che all’abisso dei nostri mali si richiedesse un abisso di misericordia, ci fornì di un aiuto poderoso sopra ogni altro, e che tutte sopravanza le altre misericordie.
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Goffredo Alessandrini – Il film “Don Bosco” (1935)
Goffredo Alessandrini (Cairo, September 9, 1904 – Rome, May 16, 1978), was an Italian script writer and film director. In 1935 he directed this film, Don Bosco, starring Gianpaolo Rosmino, Maria Vincenza Stiffi and Ferdinando Mayer. The production company was Lux Film. The music by Girogio Federico Ghedini. The movie spends 90 minutes showing the life of Saint John Bosco (1815 – 1888), mostly in Turin, the founder of the Salesian Order and the education of poor youth that would become global, reaching 132 countries as late as 2015. Continue reading “Goffredo Alessandrini – Il film “Don Bosco” (1935)”
Kamila Novosedlikova – L’attività delle FMA della Slovacchia nel travagliato periodo 1940-1950
Il saggio intende offrire una concisa esposizione dell’attività educativa ed apostolica dalla fondazione della prima presenza delle FMA in Slovacchia nel 1940 fino alla soppressione delle loro opere a favore delle giovani ad opera dei comunisti, nel 1950.
Jesùs-Graciliano Gonzàlez Miguel – L’educazione Salesiana negli anni particolarmente difficili della II Repubblica Spagnola (1931-1936)
L’ACSSA Spagnola ha risposto al tema proposto dalla Presidenza dell’ACSSA per il Seminario Europeo di Cracovia sull’educazione salesiana nei tempi difficili con uno studio di insieme dei SDB e delle FMA. In questa nota vogliamo precisare: