Contents:
- Some criteria for reading the volume
- More important aspects
- The growth of the interior man
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Egidio Viganò – Letter of John Paul II to youth of the world
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Year of Youth
- Values of youth
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Egidio Viganò – The Salesian Mission and the Workers’World
Contents:
- Thinking over the journey
- A call from the southern hemisphere
- The importance of the workers’ world
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Egidio Viganò – The challenge of the Media
Contents:
- The Salesian mission and the media
- Mass media: a new way of being present
- Don Bosco, man of the media
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Egidio Viganò – “Our African commitment”
Contents:
- “Our African commitment”
- The Rector Major in Black Africa
- This is Africa’s hour
Michael Mendl – “The zeal of the salesians is just the thing”. Founding of the salesian work in New York
Over one hundred years ago, on November 28, 1898, three Salesians arrived in New York to initiate a Salesian apostolate among the Italian immigrants of that metropolis. In March of the previous year four of their confreres had undertaken a similar mission in San Francisco.
Giovanni Bosco – Sources prior to the first missionary expedition
The first seven documents offered here belong in some way to the first missionary expedition which sailed from Genoa on November 14, 1875.
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Giovanni Bosco – A missionary project in rapid development
What were Don Bosco’s missionary plans for Argentina once he had set foot in that land? With the information in his possession thanks to research by Fr Giulio Barberis, and to correspondence with local authorities and Salesian missionaries, six months after the first expedition Don Bosco was able to send the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide, Cardinal Alessandro Franchi, a first report on the immediate results of the work of Salesian missionaries in Argentina (no. 98). He asked for financial aid and the setting up of an Apostolic Prefecture for the territories of Pampa and Patagonia to refer those who belonged to no institution either ecclesiastical or civil.
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Dominic Veliath – Encounter of the salesian charism. South Asian context
The theme of this reflection, entitled: “Encounter of the Salesian Charism: South Asian Context, is self-explanatory. Drawing out its implications, the topic can be articulated in three focal points, implied in the very title, that is, “Salesian charism,” “South Asia,” and finally, the issue of the “Encounter…”.
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Arthur Lenti – Community and mission. Spiritual insights and salesian religious life in Don Bosco’s Constitutions
The present article is not concerned with the new constitutions. No comparative study will be attempted, nor any reference will be made to them. This would be carrying coal to Newcastle. I shall instead attempt simply to identify and briefly discuss some of the spiritual insights and principles for religious life and action which Don Bosco embodied in his constitutions.
Arthur Lenti – Saint with a human face: Don Bosco in Father Giulio Barberis original chronicle
The Central Salesian Archive contains numerous eyewitness reports of Don Bosco’s words and deeds, particularly in the form of chronicles and memoirs. I drew heavily on these documents for previous articles which saw the light of day in the pages of this Journal. I shall do the same for the present article.
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.