Contents:
- Introduction
- A history open to the future
- The new ecclesial sensitivity
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Egidio Viganò,Juan Edmundo Vecchi – In memory of Fr Egidio Viganò: message of the Holy Father; Homily of Vicar General
Contents:
- 1.1 In memory of Fr Egidio VIGANO: A message of hope
- 1.2 Message of the Holy Father and the Homily of Vicar General
Egidio Viganò – Our prayer for vocations
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Holy Spirit is more powerful than secularism
- Initiatives for our prayer for vocations
Egidio Viganò – Don Philip Rinaldi, authentic witness and interpreter of the «salesian spirit»
Contents:
- The beatification of Don Rinaldi
- The history of the cause
- The significance of the event for us
- The story of Don Rinaldi’s life
- At the vertex midway through the first salesian century
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Egidio Viganò – The Marian Year
Contents:
- Introduction
- Why a Marian Year
- Dynamic ecclesial perspectives
Egidio Viganò – The Past-Pupils of Don Bosco
Contents:
- Introduction
- Article 5 of the constitutions
- The “education received”
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Egidio Viganò – 1988 – An invitation to renewal of profession
Contents:
- 50 years of salesian life
- Religious profession and the turning point of the Council
- The laborious search for identity
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Egidio Viganò – The Salesian Family
Contents:
- Introduction
- Fidelity to a precious heritage
- Don Bosco belongs to the Church
- Don Bosco father of a spiritual family
Luigi Ricceri – Family News
Contents:
- Family News
- Don Bosco wanted Salesian news
- Spreading Family news
- Salesian news is absolutely necessary today
Francis Desramaut – Contemporary spirituality of the salesian family
A noted Salesian scholar and author, Fr. Desramaut has recently undertaken a work of major proportions, a dictionary of Salesian spirituality. The title of the work is: Les cent mots-clefs de la spiritualite salesienne (One Hundred Keywords in Salesian Spirituality). It is being published in installments in Cahiers Salesiens, the journal of the Center of Salesian Studies in Lyons (France), over which Fr. Desramaut presides. The first installment of the work (containing entries from A to C) is prefaced by an introductory essay on Salesian spirituality. This is the essay which is given here in English as meticulously translated by Fr. Arthur J. Lenti.
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Centennial celebration of the salesian presence in the United States of America. Homily in San Francisco, February 2, 1997
For the beginning of our centennial celebration we are gathered together here as a family in the place where the Salesians established their first presence in the United States of America. When we compare our present- day situation with that at the moment of our arrival we find much for which we must be grateful to God.
Pietro Stella – Recensione a tre articoli di Francis Desramaut sulla “Storia primitiva della Famiglia salesiana”
L’autore recensisce criticamente la proposta interpretativa espressa da Francis Desramaut sulla nascita della Famiglia Salesiana e l’idea che don Bosco ne aveva. Questi sono i tre contributi di Desramaut recensiti da P. Stella:
F. DESRAMAUT, La storia primitiva della Famiglia salesiana secondo tre esposti di Don Bosco, in La Famiglia salesiana (Lussemburgo, 26-30 agosto 1973). Leumann-Torino 1974, 17-44;
ID., Da Associati alla Congregazione salesiana del 1873 a Cooperatori salesiani del 1876, in Il Cooperatore nella società contemporanea, Friburgo (Svizzera) 26-29 agosto 1974. Leumann-Torino 1975, 23-50;
ID., La fondazione della Famiglia salesiana (1841-1876), in Costruire insieme la Famiglia salesiana. Simposio sulla Famiglia Salesiana (Roma, 19-22 febbraio 1982), a cura di M. MIDALI, Roma 1983, 75-102. Continue reading “Pietro Stella – Recensione a tre articoli di Francis Desramaut sulla “Storia primitiva della Famiglia salesiana””