The article addresses the challenge of updating Don Bosco’s preventive system, centred on the accompaniment of the young, to make it congruent with the present day. It is emphasised that youth accompaniment is the new description of the heart of the preventive system. Continue reading “Carlo Loots – “Being a guide and companion for young people today” in “Journal of salesian studies, January – June 2023, Volume XX – Number 1””
Benvenuti a tutti voi, partecipanti a questo Colloquio, che avete sacrificato alcuni giorni delle vostre vacanze estive, e vanno già in anticipo tutti i miei ringraziamenti ai diversi conferenzieri che dovranno intervenire durante questi quattro giorni sul tema del Colloquio: «Proporre la fede nella cultura contemporanea. Riflessioni salesiane». Continue reading “Job Inisan – “Parola d’accoglienza” in “Proporre la fede nella cultura contemporanea. Riflessioni salesiane””
Il contenuto di questo libretto si articola in tre parti:
– linee essenziali della vita di Don Bosco
– sintesi del suo pensiero pedagogico e spirituale
– documenti significativi del sistema preventivo
Continue reading “Biagio Amata – S. Giovanni Bosco. Una vita per i giovani”
In questo libro sono presenti episodi della vita di Don Bosco che generalmente non trovano riscontro nelle biografie correnti.
Continue reading “Pietro Brocardo – Don Bosco ti ricordiamo. Confidenze inedite”
I contributi raccolti in questo quaderno hanno lo scopo di dialogare con le lettrici e i lettori per avviare una riflessione, in prospettiva attualizzante, sulle caratteristiche fondamentali del modello pastorale sottostante all’espressione scelta da don Bosco come motto per sé e per la sua famiglia: “da mihi animas, cetera tolle”. La parola “anime” rimandava alle persone concrete e al loro bisogno di salvezza globale, ai ragazzi poveri e abbandonati, ai giovani e ai ceti popolari. Don Bosco dava una costante e vivace attenzione nei confronti dei giovani per preservare e salvare, per correggere e purificare, per promuovere e potenziare, per rallegrare e istruire, per condurre alla perfezione dell’umano e alla santità.
Joe Boenzi, professore di Teologia e di Spiritualità presso la Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology di Berkeley (California), presenta il significato del motto «Da mihi animas, cetera tolle» nelle scelte di vita e nello stile pastorale di san Francesco di Sales.
Aldo Giraudo cerca di sondare il senso attribuito da don Bosco al programma di «salvezza della anime» racchiuso nel motto e ne indica alcune particolarità spirituali e operative.
The document that now reaches all confreres through this publication is subtitled “Post-Chapter reflection” and not “Chapter documents”, as has customarily been the case in the past. This is because the Chapter Assembly did not arrive at the point of final approval of the text by vote. Only a few Chapter deliberations, especially those of a legal nature, saw the light of day during the first four weeks of our work. Continue reading “Capitolo Generale XXVIII Salesiani di Don Bosco – “What kind of Salesians for the youth of today?”. Post-chapter reflection”
The publication of the Acts, with the documents that form part of them, makes the decisions taken official policy, and marks the starting point of the six-year period 2008 – 2014.
The theme of the GC26 is a single one even though it is set out in key issues. At first sight it might seem that the GC26 dealt with five different questions; in realty it is just the one theme: Don Bosco’s programme of spiritual and apostolic life. The motto “Da mihi animas, cetera tolle” can be fully understood from a knowledge of the life and work of our beloved Father and Founder Don Bosco. Continue reading “Capitolo Generale XXVI Salesiani di Don Bosco – «Da mihi animas, cetera tolle»: documents of the General Chapter XXVI of the society of Saint Francis of Sales”
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The article of Fr. Arthur Lenti is very well documented, succinct, and concise. In my response, I would like to focus on two points. One is to appreciate the sapiential dimension of the motto that has permeated all aspects of the life of Don Bosco and the Salesian Family. Another is to call to mind the inter-cultural aspect which deserves more of our attention nowadays. Continue reading “Savio Hon – Back to Don Bosco: Da mihi Animas Response of Fr. Savio Hon Don Bosco Hall, Berkeley, Symposium July 20, 2007.”
The motto Da mihi animas; cetera tolle expresses the primary objective and spirit of Don Bosco’s incessant activity and the pastoral and ascetical program that he wished to hand on to his Salesians. How this driving ideal powered Don Bosco’s life and work-that is, his manifold pastoral choices-is the object of this paper. Continue reading “Arthur Lenti – Da Mihi Animas in Don Bosco. Don Bosco’s life and work for the “Salvation of Souls””
Towards the end of his paper, Fr. Boenzi makes reference to the “pastoral heart” of Francis de Sales and how “as he looked at the separated city of Geneva, his longing converted into a program of action and a journey of continual conversion.” And with reference to Don Bosco Fr. Boenzi comments: “At the end of the day, the Da mihi animas is a prayer and a gesture that becomes a life long investment. Continue reading “Francis Preston – Response to Paper of Fr. Joe Boenzi”
Don Bosco claimed that the motto Da mihi animas cetera tolle came from Francis de Sales, and we Salesians presume that this was the cherished phrase that the saintly Bishop of Geneva claimed for his own. And yet… was this really Francis de Sales. motto? On his own coat of arms as bishop we find a totally different phrase. Continue reading “Joseph Boenzi – Da Mihi Animas. Cry of the pastoral heart of Francis de Sales”
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