Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. An extraordinary event
- 2. An event of communion
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Egidio Viganò – Our prayer for vocations
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Holy Spirit is more powerful than secularism
- Initiatives for our prayer for vocations
Egidio Viganò – «Charism and prayer»
Contents:
- Introduction
- Fascination of charisms
- The individual in a praying dialogue
- The originality of christian prayer
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Egidio Viganò – The Marian Year
Contents:
- Introduction
- Why a Marian Year
- Dynamic ecclesial perspectives
Luigi Ricceri – Another word on prayer
Contents:
- Happy news: Bp. Trochta made cardinal
- Four months of work
- Top priority to formation
Luigi Ricceri – Convocation of the 21st General Chapter
Contents:
- 1.1 Convocation of the 21st General Chapter
- 1.2 “We are undertaking a matter of the greatest importance” (D. Bosco)
- 1.3 Two additional news items
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Luigi Ricceri – Prayer: a vital problem
Contents:
- Learn from Don Rua
- The function of the magisterium of the Congregation
- Prayer: a vital problem
- Prayer is in a state of crisis
Mary Greenan – Salesian mysticism: towards the ectasy of action
Reflecting on Salesian spirituality brings us to the writings of St. Francis de Sales along with modern spiritual concepts. Sr. Mary Greenan explores the “ecstasies” of St. Francis de Sales calling us to be “contemplatives in action.”
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Sylwia Ciężkowska – L’accompagnamento comunitario nel cammino di perfezione di santa Teresa di Gesù
L’articolo fa parte di un volume che offre al lettore la possibilità di accostare alla realtà dell’accompagnamento da diversi punti di vista e da differenti approcci disciplinari.
Questo articolo si sofferma sul tema dell’accompagnamento comunitario nell’esperienza di Santa Teresa di Gesù a partire di una delle sue opere più conosciute: Il Cammino di perfezione.
Giovanni Bosco – Exemplary biographies
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. From these stories comes a horizon of meaning, a way of thinking and acting thoroughly rooted in his cultural context. At the same time however, beyond historical contingencies, they highlight a range of elements which better illustrate the characteristic features of the saint’s spiritual pedagogy.
Giovanni Bosco – The marian dimension of salesian spirituality
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.
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Giovanni Bosco – Spiritual advice for friends, cooperators and benefactors
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.
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