Chi scorre la letteratura fiorita attorno alla figura di S. Giovanni Bosco non tarda ad accorgersi ch’essa ha una traiettoria che ha avuto il suo culmine negli anni della sua beatificazione e canonizzazione. Se si dovesse optare per una priorità, nel costruire una storia del sentire religioso, ci pare che questa sia da assegnare all’essere e al suo evolversi. Continue reading “Pietro Stella – Don Bosco nella storia della religiosità cattolica. Volume I: Vita e opere”
This evaluation focuses more on the content than on the methodology. The seminar helped to improve knowledge of the situation as far as content is concerne which was very interesting.
In recent years our Congregation of the Caritas Sisters of Miyazaki, especially the Province of Korea, experiences a fresh interest in the origins of our charism. The sisters talk about the primary importance of prayer and the secondary value of daily work.
On 6 February l922,Pius XI (1939) ascended the Papal throne: he would become known as a “Pope of the Missions” (as was his predecessor, Benedict XV). Two months later, on 24 April, Fr. Filippo Rinaldi ( 5 December 1931) was elected Rector Major: his ten years in office would be recalled for the great re-launching of the Salesian missionary movement. After a rapid glance at the “missionary policy” of the Papacy during the same period, we shall concentrate on that. Continue reading “Francesco Motto – “Salesian missionary activity while blessed Filippo Rinaldi (1921-1931) was Rector maior with particular reference to eastern Asia” in “The beginning of the Salesian presence in east Asia”.”
Si riportano in appendice la lettera del Rettor Maggiore Don Pascual Chavez Villanueva a tutta la Famiglia Salesiana e di suor Yvonne Reungoat e suor Maria Fe Nuñez Muñoz ai partecipanti al seminario ACSSA svoltosi a Hong Kong.
That is part of the well known talk which Don Bosco gave to his boys when they were forced to move from place to place for their Sunday gatherings. That became known as the wandering oratory. This is the story of another transplanting, another wandering.
Continue reading “Philip J. Pascucci – Out of our past an american venture into seminary training”
And so the main object of our reflections will be the figure of Don Bosco, a figure we shall try to make contact with, not so much to understand his external actions which we all know about already, but rather to understand the conditions, the motivations, the spirit which led him to make specific choices, to work in a specific way, to write about particular matters, to reach a particular form of holiness which is specifically his own, different in some ways from that of other saints.
Don Bosco, grande educatore cristiano dei giovani, volle la religione tra i fondamenti del suo sistema educativo. Nell’ambito della religione il Santo diede una grande importanza alla vita di pietà. La inculcò insistentemente con la parola e con gli scritti. Seppe soprattutto dare il suo convincente esempio.
Continue reading “Armando Cuva – La pietà liturgica di Don Bosco”
The road traveled by John Bosco, as child and teenager, in his quest for an education, proved to be a bumpy one, marked by frequent twists and turns and occasionally stalled by unforeseen roadblocks. But despite occasional disheartening setbacks, John’s high hopes in his pursuit of an education would prevail over disconcerting frustrations.
Thus the approval of the Salesian Constitutions in April 1874 was followed by a second and more bitterly fought phase of the conflict.
Continue reading “Arthur Lenti – The Bosco-Gastaldi conflict (1872-82), Part II”
The reader may be surprised to learn that at the first canonical assembly of Salesians, Don Bosco was equating fidelity to our Society with the broad road of “Salesianity” mapped out in such a human and holy way by Saint Francis of Sales himself.
Continue reading “Jack Ayers – The “Salesianity” that wins all hearts”
Father Philip Rinaldi was my granduncle on myfather’s side. For us youngsters he was the tall, smiling priest who, when visiting our home, would dig into his pockets and invariably come up with all sorts of goodies.
Continue reading “Peter Rinaldi – Blessed Philip Rinaldi as I knew him”
Se l’intreccio fra tradizione e modernizzazione era stato un tratto caratteristico del modello salesiano all’epoca di don Bosco, lo fu altrettanto durante il rettorato dei suoi due successori? Quali furono le modalità varie e forse anche contraddittorie, attraverso cui il modello della “pedagogia povera” di Valdocco e di Mornese si è tradotto nella realtà educativa del mondo salesiano? Quale tipo di “inculturazione” pedagogico-spirituale ebbe luogo all’epoca per aderire alle concrete esigenze del luogo, senza con ciò venir meno all’uniformità ricercata sempre come garanzia di unità e di fedeltà allo spirito del fondatore?».
Una data cara e memoranda si avvicina: il centenario della vestizione chiericale del santo Padre Don Bosco, la quale ebbe luogo la domenica 25 ottobre del 1835 nella Chiesa parrocchiale di Castelnuovo. Ogni ricorrenza della vita di D. Bosco è sacra e solenne: ma questa riveste un’importanza speciale e merita una particolare commemorazione.
Il presente contributo si propone di mettere a disposizione degli studiosi e specialmente dei membri della Famiglia Salesiana, il testo critico di un documento inedito dovuto alla mano di don Michele Rua, primo successore di don Bosco.
Continue reading “José Manuel Prellezo – Rua Michele, Libro dell’esperienza (1861-1866)”
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