Giovanni Bosco – “Cooperators in the salesian mission” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”

The first text (no. 272) included here is an extract from a long conference which Don Bosco gave at the opening of the Patronage de St Pierre in Nice, on 12 March 1877. After summing up the events which led to the founding of the first Salesian House in France, thanks to the involvement of a group of lay people belonging to the St Vincent de Paul Society, supported by Bishop Pietro Sola, the saint said that the work was only set up because of the fruitful cooperation between the Salesians and the Cooperators. Then, pointing out the principal purpose of the Institution (“the good of humanity and the salvation of souls”), he concluded with the reflection that we offer here, focused entirely on practical charity, works of mercy, essential features of true Christian discipleship and on the eternal reward that comes from it (cf. Mt 25:34-35).

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Giovanni Bosco – “Salesian Cooperators Association” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”

The Salesian Cooperators association, which came into being in 1876, just two years after the approval of the Constitutions of the Salesian Society, is the last group that Don Bosco founded. As with ADMA he did not ask the Holy See for formal, canonical approval of the association; he considered it sufficient for the aims of the Salesian Cooperators Association to gain moral recognition through the granting of indulgences by the Pope and favourable recommendation by some bishops.

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Pierangelo Fabrini – “La laicità nei regolamenti dei cooperatori salesiani” in “Laici nella famiglia salesiana” Atti della XII settimana di spiritualità della famiglia salesiana

Il documento tratta del concetto di “laicità secolare” definito dal Concilio Vaticano II, distinguendo due dimensioni inseparabili: la dimensione umana, che implica la partecipazione piena dei laici ai doveri e agli affari del mondo, e la dimensione teologica, in cui i laici sono chiamati da Dio a contribuire alla santificazione del mondo dall’interno. Continue reading “Pierangelo Fabrini – “La laicità nei regolamenti dei cooperatori salesiani” in “Laici nella famiglia salesiana” Atti della XII settimana di spiritualità della famiglia salesiana”

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