Contents:
- Introduction
- The European Bishops Synod
- Collapse of ideologies?
- Exhortation to apostolic breadth of vision
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Egidio Viganò – The Past-Pupils of Don Bosco
Contents:
- Introduction
- Article 5 of the constitutions
- The “education received”
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Samuel Komanvi Amaglo – Les jeunes au carrefour de la mission comme exercice de dialogue éducatif théologique. L’experience des Salesiens de Don Bosco au Maroc
Partendo dall’esperienza salesiana dell’accompagnamento dei giovani cristiani e musulmani nel contesto pastorale e di dialogo interreligioso del Marocco, questo contributo – in lingua francese – mette a fuoco il ruolo dei giovani nella relazione costruttiva tra missione evangelizzatrice, educazione e dialogo interreligioso, che sono sempre coesistiti nei vari contesti del mondo. Continue reading “Samuel Komanvi Amaglo – Les jeunes au carrefour de la mission comme exercice de dialogue éducatif théologique. L’experience des Salesiens de Don Bosco au Maroc”
Egidio Viganò – The guide to the Constitutions
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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