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Reference time period: 1998
J. E. Vecchi, «Experts, Witnesses and Craftsmen of Communion». The salesian community – animating nucleus, in «Acts of the General Council of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco» 80 (1998) 363, 3-44.
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Direzione Generale SDB
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This study will look at how the Salesian brother’s vocation appears in official Salesian writings while Don Bosco was founding the Salesian Congregation, and at how the Congregation has theologically reflected on that vocation as part of its renewal of its Constitutions. It will then examine how this identity has been applied.
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Amongst the documents drawn up by the third (1883) and fourth (1886) General Chapter of the Salesian Congregation – which the founder also took part in – of particular merit is the new Regulations for the festive oratories and deliberations regarding Orientations for the working boys in Salesian houses. The two documents were published, as already recorded, in 1887.
In a letter dated May 24, 1966, Fr. Luigi Ricceri (1901-1989), then Rector Major of the Salesian Society, introduced a new edition of the Constitutions to his confreres. Nearly one year had elapsed since the close of the nineteenth general chapter of the Salesian Society, and six months had passed since the close of Vatican II In this context, Fr. Ricceri introduced the constitutions which carried a number of changes that were to usher the Society toward its twentieth general chapter.
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The first part of this study, however, will examine that other body of Salesian particular law, the Regulations. It will trace their development from their earliest beginnings around 1850, the era of Father Rosmini’s and Father De Guadenzi’s Sunday afternoon visit, up to 1967.
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Don Bosco aveva cominciato la sua attività di sacerdote educatore perché a Torino si era imbattuto nel problema dei giovani socialmente sradicati e sbandati. Il ’48 fu una data decisiva per Don Bosco, così come per l’intero Piemonte. Molti giovani disertarono l’oratorio e vari preti, già collaboratori di Don Bosco, s’adoperarono per sfaldare il gruppo rimasto fedele. Le contromisure di Don Bosco si possono così riassumere: 1) ricorso a mons. Fransoni, con il risultato di farsi nominare direttore degli oratori torinesi; 2) costituzione di una società (Congregazione) sotto il titolo e protezione dell’Angelo Custode e con lo scopo d’istruire nella religione e nella pietà la gioventù abbandonata; 3) consolidamento della propria autorevolezza proponendosi all’attenzione della Santa Sede; Continue reading “Pietro Stella – Le Costituzioni salesiane fino al 1888”
In an article which appeared in an earlier issue of this Journal, I described some of Don Bosco’s concerns, as he expressed them in meetings of his council and in sessions of General Chapters held during the last decade of his life.
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