Contents:
- Introduction
- A history open to the future
- The new ecclesial sensitivity
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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 – The Salesian Family
Contents:
- Introduction
- Fidelity to a precious heritage
- Don Bosco belongs to the Church
- Don Bosco father of a spiritual family
Egidio Viganò – The 22nd General Chapter
Contents:
- Introduction
- Convocation of the Chapter
- An event that challenges our spiritual maturity
John Rasor – The salesian brother’s spiritual identity
This study will look at how the Salesian brother’s vocation appears in official Salesian writings while Don Bosco was founding the Salesian Congregation, and at how the Congregation has theologically reflected on that vocation as part of its renewal of its Constitutions. It will then examine how this identity has been applied.
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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.
Philip J. Pascucci – Out of our past an american venture into seminary training
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.
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Arthur Lenti – Key-concepts, concerns and fears of a founder- Don Bosco in his declining years
My article on Don Bosco’s last years, which saw the light of day in this Journal, was based on chronicles and memoirs held in the Central Salesian Archive. Besides these chronicles and memoirs, there are other important documents to be found in the archive relating to Don Bosco’s last years.
Peter Rinaldi – Blessed Philip Rinaldi as I knew him
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.
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Paolo Albera – Sulle vocazioni
In questa lettera, il Rettor Maggiore Paolo Albera scrive a riguardo delle vocazioni, come coltivarle e come accompagnarle e delle deliberazioni del Capitolo Superiore.
Michele Rua – Studi – Vocazioni.
In questa lettera vengono raccontate le visite delle case salesiane del Rettor Maggiore. Egli attraversò tutta la Francia, per recarsi a visitare le varie case delle Isole Britanniche, passò per le case del Portogallo, ed in gran parte di quelle della Spagna e tornato a Torino, dopo essersi fermato per un breve periodo, riprese il viaggio per le case dell’Italia Meridionale, della Sicilia, della Calabria e delle Puglie. Continue reading “Michele Rua – Studi – Vocazioni.”