Contents:
- “Religious life and discipline”
- Aversion to the concept of “discipline”
- Spiritual significance of the “Rule of life”
Egidio Viganò – New Aspects of commitment to Religious Discipline
Contents:
- “To awake the dawn”
- Prepare a Plan for Active participation
- Don Bosco a Diligent Promoter of Discipline of the Spirit
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Giovanni Bosco – First salesian colleges founded outside Turin (1863-1864)
“One and not the last study by Don Bosco this year,” writes J. B. Lemoyne referring to 1863 “was the foundation of the college at Mirabello. He had written up its regulations, using the ones at the Oratory as a basis, specifying all the duties of individual superiors and of the pupils, changing what might not be appropriate for the nature of this Institute.” These “regulations,” that remained simply handwritten for many years, according to what we have from Lemoyne, “had to be the founding statute for all the other Houses that would be opened over time. This meant they were given much importance.”
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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.
Jose Kuttianimattathil – The preventive system and child rights more than a tool for working with children with behavioral difficulties
The Salesians, who have been applying the Preventive System since the time of their Don Bosco, have understood it mostly as a method of education. However, when we re-read the Preventive System from the perspective of rights, we realize that it is a Child Rights friendly system. We see ingrained in it many of the Child Rights.
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.
Michael Ribotta – Tough love is not the answer- Don Bosco’s views on punishment
In our essay we shall examine the meaning and application of “punishment” and “discipline” as found in Don Bosco’s educational writings. It was a subject to which he returned time and time again-and for good reason.
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Michael Ribotta – The Roman Letter of 1884 and its aftermath
In retrospect, one can appreciate why Don Bosco had become so distraught by the message that was played out in his dream (reverie?) during his Roman sojourn of 1884. His old friends, Joseph Buzzelli and Ferdinando Valfre, had demonstrated all too realistically what he could expect when the educational principles of his Sistema Preventivo and the “love environment” he strove so hard to cultivate for 40 years at the Oratory had been allowed to dissipate.
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Paolo Albera – Sulla disciplina religiosa
In questa lettera, il Rettor Maggiore Paolo Albera scrive a riguardo della disciplina, degli studentati delle case di formazione.
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Pietro Ricaldone – Strenna del 1935: Fedeltà a Don Bosco Santo
“Il 24 maggio del 1934, dopo aver assistito ai trionfi della Canonizzazione del nostro Santo Fondatore, invitandovi, coll’animo ancor ripieno delle più soavi emozioni, a innalzare con me l’inno del ringraziamento a Dio per le cose veramente mirabili di cui ci volle, in quei giorni d’imperituro ricordo, fortunati spettatori e strumenti, io vi diceva: « Non potremo giammai
ringraziare quanto si merita il Signore del bene che ci ha fatto glorificando in modo così eccelso il nostro Padre».
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Ramón Alberdi – “Los centros salesianos de cultura popular. España: Realizaciones en la Ispectoría Tarraconense, 1890-1922”, in “L’educazione salesiana dal 1880 al 1922. Istanze ed attuazioni in diversi contesti Volume I”
Quando, nel 1901, Don Felipe Rinaldi – ispettore dal 1892 delle case di Spagna e Portogallo, con sede a Barcellona – lasciò la Penisola per unirsi al Consiglio Generale della Congregazione (Torino), la Spagna salesiana fu divisa in tre viceprovince o province, che ottenne l’approvazione canonica l’anno successivo con un decreto della Congregazione romana dei vescovi e dei regolari (20 gennaio 1902).