Contents:
- Vocational consistency and fidelity, challenges for vocation.
- Motivations.
- Anthropological opportunities and challenges.
- Authenticity.
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Pascual Chavez Villanueva – Inculturation of the salesian charism “So though I am not a slave of any man I have made myself the slave of everyone so as to win as many as I could” (1Cor 9,19)
Contents:
- “The Law of all evangelisation”
- Changing cultural paradigms
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- Globalisation
- Interreligious dialogue
- The youth situation
- The digital world, a continent to be leavened
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her» (Eph. 5,25). Commentary on the Strenna 2005
Contents:
- The reason
- Rejuvenating the Church: a gift and a task
- A testimony, a model, an image
Egidio Viganò – The Eucharist in the apostolic spirit of Don Bosco
Contents:
- The most vital theme for measuring our spirit and activity
- Don Bosco and the Eucharist: Mass, Communion, Adoration
- The eucharistic outlook of Vatican II
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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 – 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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Giovanni Bosco – Spiritual formation of the young through preaching, “goodnights” and dream accounts
In Don Bosco’s educational system preaching has special importance, both that which is bound up with the liturgical or catechetical context, and that of the informal, familiar kind. The saint often addressed the community of young people with brief and fervent talks aimed at stirring up their emotions, nurturing their minds, encouraging good resolutions and devout sentiments, and looking ahead to stimulating horizons.
Giovanni Bosco – The companion of youth
The first edition of Il giovane provveduto (in English The Companion of Youth) appeared in 1847 and was Don Bosco’s greatest publishing success. The year he died it had reached its 119th edition. It was reprinted with minor adaptations until 1961. It is also the book which Don Bosco most liked and constantly recommended.
Giovanni Bosco – The two “official” regulations (1877)
In the years from 1853 to 1862, Valdocco was transformed from a festive Oratory—an open institution—into a complex work: hospice and boarding, college with boarding section, trade workshops, internal classes and publishing centre, amongst the most important sections.
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Giovanni Bosco – Prevention and education (1877-1878): The Preventive System in the Education of the Young
The Preventive System in the education of the young (1877) is one of the most important and widespread documents by the founder of the Salesians and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. It is the first more or less complete account—despite its small size—that Don Bosco had put together on his educational approach. It is with this “small treatise” that his reputation as educator and pedagogue became so intimately linked.
Miguel Angel García Morcuende – Personal accompaniment in the salesian educative-pastoral plan
In many a document the Church has defined the nature, goal and elements of youth ministry and has included it neatly in the methods of evangelization in its different stages. We can proudly say that the Salesian educative-pastoral plan has been, and continues to be, in line with the Church’s evangelizing mission.
Roberto Carelli – Il sacramento della Confessione nei sogni di don Bosco
L’analisi di temi ricorrenti nei sogni è inaugurata dal saggio di Roberto Carelli che studia i sogni connessi con la missione di don Bosco nel sacramento della Confessione. Sulla scorta di una solida riflessione sul mistero del male e sulla sua oscurità, che rende impossibile ricondurlo a una logica delucidazione, l’autore mostra la pertinenza teologica della simbolica del male e della pedagogia della virtù che si dispiega nelle visioni oniriche del prete di Valdocco e la peculiare pedagogia sacramentale entro cui gli insegnamenti morali presenti nei sogni trovano la propria originaria e plausibile collocazione. Continue reading “Roberto Carelli – Il sacramento della Confessione nei sogni di don Bosco”