Dopo aver stabilito la sua Opera assistenziale-educativa a Valdocco nel 1846, don Bosco riconosce l’urgenza di pubblicare scritti in linea con gli scopi dell’istituzione. Continue reading “Giovanni Bosco – “Sezione seconda. Intuizioni, riflessioni e idee pedagogiche” in “Fonti Salesiane 1. Don Bosco e la sua opera. Raccolta ontologica””
L’esperienza originaria di Valdocco e dei primi oratori torinesi aveva il potenziale per crescere in ampiezza e profondità, espandendosi oltre i confini cittadini, ma ciò richiedeva due condizioni fondamentali: un progetto operativo e risorse umane ed economiche adeguate. Don Bosco comprese presto che la continuità della sua Opera richiedeva un’organizzazione stabile delle forze disponibili, preparate sul piano educativo e spirituale. Continue reading “Giovanni Bosco – “Sezione seconda. Don Bosco Fondatore” in “Fonti Salesiane 1. Don Bosco e la sua opera. Raccolta ontologica””
Il testo discute l’importanza delle testimonianze sulla pratica educativa di Don Bosco attraverso le parole di Don Giulio Barberis, primo professore di pedagogia dei giovani salesiani. Continue reading “Giovanni Bosco – “Sezione prima. Documenti narrativi” in “Fonti Salesiane 1. Don Bosco e la sua opera. Raccolta ontologica””
Questa sezione costituisce una raccolta cronologica di 29 scritti di Don Bosco e documenti relativi all’Opera Salesiana nel periodo che va dal 1846 al 1888. Questi testi sono stati selezionati per il loro valore intrinseco, le informazioni cruciali che contengono e il ruolo significativo che hanno nella storia biografica di Don Bosco e nello sviluppo dell’Opera Salesiana. Continue reading “Giovanni Bosco – “Sezione prima. Da casa Pinardi alla Patagonia” in “Fonti Salesiane 1. Don Bosco e la sua opera. Raccolta ontologica””
I curatori del volume hanno dovuto fare una selezione ampia dei materiali disponibili negli archivi e delle opere stampate di don Bosco (raccolte in 37 volumi) in tre ambiti principali: storia, pedagogia e spiritualità. Continue reading “Aldo Giraudo,Francesco Motto,José Manuel Prellezo García – “Introduzione” in “Fonti Salesiane 1. Don Bosco e la sua opera. Raccolta ontologica””
Il Rettor Maggiore, in occasione dell’inizio del Bicentenario della nascita di don Bosco e della fine del suo mandato, esprime la sua soddisfazione per la pubblicazione del primo volume delle Fonti salesiane, intitolato “Don Bosco e la sua opera. Raccolta antologica”. Questo volume era stato richiesto dal Capitolo Generale XXVI per approfondire l’identità carismatica salesiana, e il compito di realizzarlo è stato affidato all’Istituto Storico Salesiano, che ha completato il lavoro sotto la direzione di don José Manuel Prellezo. Continue reading “Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “Presentazione del Rettor Maggiore” in “Fonti Salesiane 1. Don Bosco e la sua opera. Raccolta ontologica””
Written over several occasions between 1873 and 1875, the manuscript of the Memoirs of the Oratory remained unpublished by Don Bosco’s explicit will. Continue reading “Giovanni Bosco – “Memoirs of the oratory” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected Works””
The biographical profiles of Louis Comollo (in the 1854 edition), Dominic Savio, Michael Magone and Francis Besucco are among the spiritual and pedagogical documents which are most representative of Don Bosco’s outlook. Continue reading “Giovanni Bosco – “Exemplary biographies” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected Works””
The sixth part contains most of what, in Salesian tradition, is known as the “Spiritual Testament”. It is a handwritten notebook entitled Memories from 1841 to 1884-5-6 by Fr John Bosco to his Salesian sons, where the saint, on different occasions, especially in the final years of his life, wrote exhortations and reminders for his disciples, friends, benefactors and Cooperators.
Efforts to reform society along Christian lines, undertaken in the Turin diocese after the fall of Napoleon’s Empire, in addition to taking up systematic parish catechesis once more, fostering popular missions, the Forty Hours and retreats for all kinds of groups, focused above all on reform of the clergy, beginning with more careful selection of candidates for the priesthood and diligent care in their preparation. Continue reading “Giovanni Bosco – “Section five. Zeal for the salvation of souls Don Bosco’s models” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work, Collected works””
Don Bosco, a tireless apostle of Marian devotion, emphasised the role of the Blessed Virgin for salvation of the individual in the Companion of Youth: she is the mediatrix of graces, defence against the assaults of evil, support in living a Christian life and on the way to holiness. These are things he draws from St Alphonsus Liguori: true devotion expressed through a life of virtue above all guarantees the most powerful patronage one could have in life and in death.
Don Bosco’s correspondence with the Cooperators and friends, lay and clerical, always contains detailed and substantial spiritual suggestions aimed at proposing a way of interior life along with devotion and spiritual fervour, the practice of virtue, charity, loving and faithful fulfilment of the duties of one’s state in life.
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).
All the means of salvation are to be found in the Church, where holiness and charity flourish. Don Bosco constantly invites adults and young people to cooperate with the action of grace, hope and charity, generously offering themselves through constant prayer, and by frequenting the sacraments but especially by imitating Jesus Christ in a virtuous life of charitable works.
The years of foundation and consolidation of the Salesian Society and the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians are ones where Don Bosco’s horizons expanded in an impressive manner. The priest of Valdocco, ever more aware of having received a divine mission, feels that he has been transported into a huge field of activity, given a charism that makes him father and founder of a movement of apostles, consecrated men and women who are destined to spread over space and time. His spiritual magisterium deepens, his proposals become more radical, all-embracing.
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