Contents:
- 1. A hymn of praise
- 2. The first months of work in the General Council
- 3. The activity of doctrinal guidance
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Towards the 25th General Chapter
Contents:
- 1. Convocation
- The hour of the GC25
- Our journey
- 2. Tjheme of the GC25
- The salesian community
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – «Experts, witnesses and craftsmen of Communion». The salesian community – animating nucleus
Contents:
- Introduction
- I. A new phase in our community life
- 1. Strong expectations
- 2. Animating nucleus
- 3. The goal
- 4. The present moment
- 5. The model for reference
- II. A community process for becoming an animating nucleus
- 1. Redesigning the mission
- 2. A way of life for communicating a spirituality
- 3. Making the salesian community a “family” able to arouse communion around the salesian mission
- 4. Giving to our educative activity and to that of the EPC the missionary dynamism of “Da mihi animas”
- 5. Fraternal life and pastoral work for growth
- Conclusion
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.
Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Church and Family Events
Contents:
- 1. The Synods
- American solidarity
- Asia calls tor the Gospel
- Life and proclamation
- A look towards the young
- Concern for education
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Egidio Viganò – «Charism and prayer»
Contents:
- Introduction
- Fascination of charisms
- The individual in a praying dialogue
- The originality of christian prayer
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John Rasor – The salesian brother’s spiritual identity
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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Giovanni Bosco – Deliberations of the last General Chapters Don Bosco presided over (1883-1886)
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.
Joseph Boenzi – Chastity in the salesian constitutions
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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John Rasor – Early salesian regulations: formation in the Preventive System
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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Pietro Stella – Le Costituzioni salesiane fino al 1888
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”
Arthur Lenti – Key-concepts, concerns and fears of a Founder-Don Bosco in his declining years Part II
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.