Salesian Online Resources

Author	Title	Abstract	Era
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 cur...	2020 - 2021
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 o...	1837 - 1881
John Rozario Lourdusamy	The spiritual profile of Don Bosco emerging from the collection of his letters	Through our efforts at providing a summary of the essential aspects of the person of Don Bosco emerg...	1840 - 1888
Michal Vojtáš	Salesian criteria and proposals for higher education	The educational experience of Don Bosco inspires Salesian Higher Education in different ways. The fi...	1997 - 2021
Joseph Boenzi	Da Mihi Animas. Cry of the pastoral heart of Francis de Sales	Don Bosco claimed that the motto Da mihi animas cetera tolle came from Francis de Sales, and we Sale...	2005 - 2006
Francis Preston	Response to Paper of Fr. Joe Boenzi	Towards the end of his paper, Fr. Boenzi makes reference to the "pastoral heart" of Francis de Sales...	2006 - 2007
Arthur Lenti	Da Mihi Animas in Don Bosco. Don Bosco's life and work for the "Salvation of Souls"	The motto Da mihi animas; cetera tolle expresses the primary objective and spirit of Don Bosco's inc...	1884 - 1888
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 wo...	2006 - 2007
Arthur Lenti	Don Bosco's Oratories in 1849-1852. Conflict, Crisis and Resolution	Don Bosco's Oratory of St. Francis de Sales after much "wandering" found its permanent home at last ...	1849 - 1852
Mary Greenan	Accompanying the young: the souls our hearts seek	The story is told of a young novice in the desert who went to the elder, the holy man of God, and sa...	2005 - 2006
David O'Malley	The youth minister as mystic and martyr. Recognizing and supporting religious experience in young people	The study of religious experience and young people is a relatively new field of research. It is impo...	2005 - 2006
Joseph Boenzi	Francis de Sales and the bases for salesian prayer	The Gospel call to "pray always without becoming weary" (Luke 18:1) can be called the cornerstone of...	2005 - 2006
William John Dickson	Prevention or repression. The reception of Don Bosco's educational approach in british salesian schools	The question that this paper seeks to explore is to what extent Don Bosco's educational approach was...	1790 - 1920
Arthur Lenti	Margaret Occhiena Bosco (1788-1856). Don Bosco's Mother, Educator and Vocational Support	Who was Margaret Occhiena Bosco? What do we know about her, and how? Don Bosco's biographer, Fr. Joh...	1788 - 1856
Kaoru Tamura	Something about Mary. Reflections on Don Bosco, mother Mazzarello and the development of the "Spirit of Mornese"	Mary Mazzarello had not seen Don Bosco until October of 1864, when he visited Mornese. In fact, it w...	1864 - 1887
Joseph Boenzi	Paolo Albera's instructions early efforts to inculcate the Spirit of Don Bosco	Among Saint John Bosco's early disciples, Paolo Albera (1845-1921) was one who was called upon to ar...	1892 - 1921
Francis J. Moloney	Jesus and Salesian Discipleship	I have been given the mandate to speak to you today on the theme: "How the Word of God shapes our co...	2004 - 2005
Joseph Di Mauro	School Leadership Formation in the Salesian Tradition	The goal of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales is expressed in the first paragraph of the Constitut...	1903 - 1970
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 pla...	1997
Lucas Van Looy	Bringing Don Bosco into the mainstream. Lecture in San Francisco, February 24, 1997	Congratulations on your hundred years of faithful work with and for Don Bosco, with and for young pe...	1997
Arthur Lenti	The founding and early expansion of the salesian work in the San Francisco area from Archival Documents, Part II	As in the earlier article, so also in the present one, besides transcribing and translating pertinen...	1897 - 1910
Paul Wynants	Writing the history of a religious teaching institute: guidelines for research, sources and methods (19th and 20th Centuries)	In the framework of such a short introduction, I would like to recall some basic principles, obvious...	1800 - 1995
Arthur Lenti	Saint with a human face: Don Bosco in Father Giulio Barberis original chronicle	The Central Salesian Archive contains numerous eyewitness reports of Don Bosco's words and deeds, pa...	1847 - 1927
Joseph Boenzi	St. Francis de Sales, bibliography of publications in English	Over the last number of years "Salesian Spirituality," first articulated by Francis de Sales and Jan...	1700 - 1995
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 f...	1903 - 1992
Arthur Lenti	The founding and early expansion of the salesian work in the San Francisco area from Archival Documents	Recently the Central Salesian Archives released the files of the Rua rectorate on some 1,750 microfi...	1895 - 1897
Michael Ribotta	The "Big Rat" and the "Mad Priest of Turin"- Don Bosco's relationship with Prime Minister Rattazzi	Perhaps of all the leading political personages of the Italian Risorgimento with whom Don Bosco enjo...	1850 - 1873
Stephen Whelan	The Catholic Readings: writing for the masses	The Letture Cattoliche or the Catholic Readings was St. John Bosco's imaginative brainchild in his e...	1853 - 1888
Eunan McDonnell	Salesian imaging of God's love without equal	Francis de Sales' use of imagery is an acknowledgment that reason alone is insufficient to plumb the...	1700
Anthony Bailey	Salesians and the Internet	As early as 1989 Pope John Paul II alerted the Church to the pastoral possibilities that technology ...	1989 - 1996
John Rasor	The concept of Secularity in salesian documents	This article examines the theological meaning of the term "secularity" in Salesian official document...	1876 - 1994