Summary:
- Presentation to the confreres: the preserving action of Don Bosco
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- From Don Rua to the present day
- The time is ripe for a relaunching
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Egidio Viganò – The advancement of the lay person in the Salesian family
Contents:
- An invitation to renew our identity card.
- Who are the laity who share the mission with us.
- The new ecclesial mentality.
- Vatican II our guide in a “pilgrimage of discovery”.
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Maria Maul – Fragility in the life of Mary Mazzarello
In the altar of the large church to St. Mary Domenica Mazzarello in Mornese-Mazzarelli, a vertebra of her backbone has been inserted as a symbol of her upright personality and her inner strength. It is not surprising, therefore, that Fr. Alberto Cavaglià, in his celebratory lecture on 14 May 1932, at the end of the Jubilee Year with which the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) celebrated the 50th anniversary of Mary Mazzarello’s death, compared her to the “strong and wise women” of the Book of Proverbs (cf. Prov 31). Continue reading “Maria Maul – Fragility in the life of Mary Mazzarello”
Egidio Viganò – Our fidelity to Peter’s successor
Contents:
- An opportune invitation.
- Don Bosco’s very concrete “Church sense”.
- A new style of exercising Peter’s ministry.
- A difficult situation.
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Anthony Nguyen – God as father and Don Bosco as father
Don Bosco is a saint who is honored as the “father and teacher” of the youth. However, we may be curious to ask ourselves: In what sense do we understand the term “father” as it is attributed or applied to Don Bosco? Surely, it is not in “biological” sense of the word. But it is not simply in spiritual sense because Don Bosco did not only provide spiritual nourishment (heaven) to the young, but also “work and bread” (something for bodily/biological needs). Continue reading “Anthony Nguyen – God as father and Don Bosco as father”
Luigi Ricceri – Unity in the Congregation – How decentralization works – Towards a campaign of fidelity
Summary:
- The highway of post-capitular renewal
- Decentralization and unity in the Congregation today
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Savio Hon – Back to Don Bosco: Da mihi Animas Response of Fr. Savio Hon Don Bosco Hall, Berkeley, Symposium July 20, 2007.
The article of Fr. Arthur Lenti is very well documented, succinct, and concise. In my response, I would like to focus on two points. One is to appreciate the sapiential dimension of the motto that has permeated all aspects of the life of Don Bosco and the Salesian Family. Another is to call to mind the inter-cultural aspect which deserves more of our attention nowadays. Continue reading “Savio Hon – Back to Don Bosco: Da mihi Animas Response of Fr. Savio Hon Don Bosco Hall, Berkeley, Symposium July 20, 2007.”
Luigi Ricceri – Our care for the Cooperators
Summary:
- Good news and sad news
- Our care for the Cooperators
- lnformation on the present situation
- Promising post-capitular features
- Areas of darkness
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Luigi Ricceri – Don Rua: the faithful servant – He belonged completely to Don Bosco – Don Rua’s message for the seventies.
Summary:
- Don Rua: the faithful servant
- Belief in Don Bosco’s sanctity
- lf he were at the helm today
- Fidelity is relevant
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Egidio Viganò – «Don Bosco, Saint»
Contents:
- Introduction.
- Don Bosco’s canonisation.
- Our religious consecration.
- The main qualities in salesian holiness: serve the Lord in gladness; an oratorian heart; attracting the love of our charges; the asceticism of the daily grind.
Egidio Viganò – The centenary of the death of Saint Mary Domenica Mazzarello
Contents:
- “REDISCOVERING THE SPIRIT OF MORNESE”
- Introduction
- A new gift of the Spirit to the Church
- Need for clarifying the distinctive ethos
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Egidio Viganò – The Salesian according to Don Bosco’s dream of the diamonds
Contents:
- The Salesian according to Don Bosco’s dream of the dream of the ten diamonds.
- Introduccion.
- “The model of the true Salesian”.
- Importance given to the dream by Don Bosco.
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- Importance of the dream in our Salesian traditions.
- Don Rinaldi the most enlightened interpreter.
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