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Giovanni Bosco – “Confidential letters to the Pope concerning the political situation (1858-1867, 1873)” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected work”



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In the years immediately preceding and following Italian Unity (1858-1866), Don Bosco kept constantly in touch with Pius IX by letter. He did this not only for interests directly relating to his work, but also in reference to the worrying situation the Church was going through in Piedmont, to encourage him in his defence of the faith against the enemies of religion, and to pass on to him any likely reserved information in his possession. Continue reading “Giovanni Bosco – “Confidential letters to the Pope concerning the political situation (1858-1867, 1873)” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected work”” →

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



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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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Giovanni Bosco – “Association of Devotees of Mary Help Of christians” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”



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When he had built the church of Mary Help of Christians at Valdocco in Turin in 1868, Don Bosco had it consecrated with an entire cycle of celebrations made available for the public domain through an appropriate booklet. Then he set out to make it an attractive centre for prayers, thanks and donations through a second larger book. Still not satisfied he sought to give stability to general devotion to Mary under the title of Mary Help of Christians through a lay association which bore that name.

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Giovanni Bosco – “Beginning, extension and charismatic and institutional consolidation of the work at Valdocco” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”



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Don Bosco, at the advice of his spiritual director, St Joseph Cafasso from autumn 1844 to summer 1846 lived at the Barolo Refuge as chaplain of the Little Hospital of St Philomena, opened in August 1845. In the same place and in other temporary places not far from Valdocco, he carried out his early priestly ministry on behalf of boys, mostly immigrant lads who had no parish of reference. Continue reading “Giovanni Bosco – “Beginning, extension and charismatic and institutional consolidation of the work at Valdocco” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”” →

Giovanni Bosco – “National and international geographic expansion of salesian work” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected work”



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From 1863 onwards the Salesian work which arose at Valdocco and through other oratories in Turin began to expand rapidly, as already indicated, through numerous foundations first in Italy—Piedmont, Liguria (no. 18) and then in other regions—and finally in France and Latin America (nos. 21, 24, 25, 27).

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Sabino Frigato – “Educazione ed evangelizzazione. La riflessione della Congregazione salesiana nel Postconcilio” in “Evangelizzazione e educazione”



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Lo studio che viene proposto prende in esame “quanto” e “come” la Congregazione salesiana, a partire dal Concilio Vaticano II a oggi, ha riflettuto sulla natura della sua missione educativa e pastorale tra i giovani. Punto di partenza di questa indagine è il CG19 celebratosi nella primavera del 1965 a lavori conciliari ancora in corso. Negli Atti del CG la Congregazione esprime in modo netto la propria identità educativa consolidata dalla tradizione salesiana e sintetizzabile nello slogan formare “buoni cristiani e onesti cittadini”. Continue reading “Sabino Frigato – “Educazione ed evangelizzazione. La riflessione della Congregazione salesiana nel Postconcilio” in “Evangelizzazione e educazione”” →

Michael Ribotta – “The Roman Letter of 1884 and its aftermath” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”



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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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Arthur Lenti – “Don Bosco’s Missionary Dreams (Part II)” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”



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In Part One of the present installment (Part Four overall), we shall discuss the last two dreams in a similar manner to the first article. Part Two (Five) will deal with the significance of the missionary dreams, with interpretative comments.

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Michael Ribotta – “«The road not taken». The Salesian’s circuitous road to North America” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”



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In the fall of 1870, for reasons that have never been documented, Don Bosco did not answer Archbishop Joseph Alemany’s invitation to travel the El Camino Real in the land of El Dorado.

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Michele Rua – “Lo spirito di D. Bosco. Vocazioni” in “Lettere circolari di Don Michele Rua ai salesiani”



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Lo zelo fa concepire a D. Bosco il desiderio di fornire ad ogni parrocchia abili cantori. Egli gusta ed ama ardentemente la musica, eppure ha una predilezione pel canto gregoriano. Mi è dolce ricordare i loro sforzi, coronati da splendidi risultati, per insegnare colla musica sacra il canto prettamente ecclesiastico, sia in Italia come in Francia. Don Michele Rua si compiace nel pensiero che i Salesiani furono considerati da vari Vescovi e ragguardevoli personaggi quali strumenti per rialzare il decoro delle sacre funzioni, e furono sempre chiamati a cantare nelle più grandi solennità. Lo zelo dei maestri in varie case si comunicò agli alunni, che presero a coltivare il canto gregoriano con non minor gusto ed impegno che la musica. Si ebbero quindi esecuzioni di canto ecclesiastico nelle grandi funzioni, che poterono star a petto della più bella musica. Continue reading “Michele Rua – “Lo spirito di D. Bosco. Vocazioni” in “Lettere circolari di Don Michele Rua ai salesiani”” →

Paolo Albera – “Un mazzetto di notizie care” in “Lettere circolari di Don Paolo Albera ai salesiani”



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La lettera del Rettor Maggiore riflette sulle preoccupazioni e le speranze della comunità Salesiana durante la Prima guerra mondiale. La lettera rivela la fiducia nella Provvidenza divina e nell’intercessione di Maria Ausiliatrice e di Don Bosco per affrontare le sfide del tempo.

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Michele Rua – “La consacrazione della nostra pia società al Sacro Cuore di Gesù” in “Lettere circolari di Don Michele Rua ai salesiani”



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Da lungo tempo e da molte parti mi fu chiesto con grande insistenza di consacrare la nostra Pia Società al Sacro Cuore di Gesù, con atto solenne e perentorio. Specialmente insistettero in questo assunto le nostre Case di Noviziato e di Studentato, congiunte in lega santa, e la cara memoria di quell’indimenticabile nostro Confratello che fu Don Andrea Beltrami. Dopo un lungo ritardo, consigliatomi dalla prudenza, credo opportuno esaudire queste suppliche ora, che il secolo decimonono volge al termine, e si avanza, lieto di molte speranze, il secolo ventesimo.

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Filippo Rinaldi – “Lettera del Rettor Maggiore” in “Atti del Capitolo Superiore”



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Mons. Versiglia, Don Caravario, catechistesse e maestri, mentre risalivano il fiume verso Lin Chow, furono assaliti da una dozzina di pirati e derubati di quanto avevano. Avendo poi i pirati tentato di rapire le catechistesse ed essendosi opposti risolutamente i missionari, i briganti si scagliarono su questi insultando la religione e li bastonarono, fracassando loro le braccia: indi trascinatili in una boscaglia, li massacrarono, fucilarono e seppellirono. Continue reading “Filippo Rinaldi – “Lettera del Rettor Maggiore” in “Atti del Capitolo Superiore”” →

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