…community and formation Section II Initial formation Art. 102 Complexity and unity of the initial formation period Art. 103 Formation communities Art. 104 Role of formation personnel Art. 105 The…
Pietro Stella – Don Bosco, Religious outlook and spirituality
…and results Salesian religious principles and practices Ascetical and charitable aims Practical training and formation for Salesian life Vocations, vows, and eternal salvation Obedience, chastity, and poverty Manifestations Practices of…
Pietro Braido – Prevention, not repression. Don Bosco’s educational system
click to download pdf Don Bosco’s educational system or, more comprehensively, Don Bosco’s preventive experience, is a project: it grew, gradually expanded and became more specific in the different and…
Autori Vari – “Activities and works of salesian youth ministry” in “Salesian youth ministry”
…parish and sanctuary entrusted to the Salesians, and the works and the social services for youth-at-risk. Then there are other works and services through which we reach out to young…
Giovanni Bosco – “Exemplary biographies” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected Works”
…Comollo was able to be a more eloquent and stimulating model: perfect imitator of the saint in the way he gave himself totally to God and in the ascetic and…
Capitolo Generale dei Salesiani di Don Bosco – “Salesians and lay people: communion and sharing in the spirit and mission of Don Bosco” in “Acts of General council”
…and shared responsability Development of a process of formation in common Second Part Salesians and Laity :memories and prophecy Chapter 1 Sdbs and Laity in the world and in the…
Giovanni Bosco – “The companion of youth” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”
click to download pdf 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…
Giovanni Bosco – “Section five. Zeal for the salvation of souls Don Bosco’s models” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work, Collected works”
click to download pdf Efforts to reform society along Christian lines, undertaken in the Turin diocese after the fall of Napoleon’s Empire, in addition to taking up systematic parish catechesis…
Giovanni Bosco – “The two “official” regulations (1877)” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected Works”
click to download pdf 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,…
Arthur Lenti – “Da Mihi Animas in Don Bosco. Don Bosco’s life and work for the “Salvation of Souls”” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
click to download pdf The motto Da mihi animas; cetera tolle expresses the primary objective and spirit of Don Bosco’s incessant activity and the pastoral and ascetical program that he…
Morand Wirth – Saint Francis de Sales. A Program of Integral Formation
…The affections that move the will Love, the first and foremost affection Inner struggle and the choices of freedom The fruits of the will are our good resolutions Fortifying and…
Pietro Stella – Don Bosco: life and work
…efforts to train students and workers 3. The various oratories for abandoned youth 4. Don Bosco’s Oratory 5. His Oratory comes to the fore 6. The hospice addition to the…
Salesian Sources: Don Bosco and his Work
…ONGOING SEARCH FOR FINANCIAL RESOURCES I. RECOURSE TO PUBLIC CHARITY II. APPEALS TO PRIVATE CHARITY PART TWO WRITINGS AND TESTIMONIES OF DON BOSCO ON EDUCATION AND SCHOOLING SECTION ONE: NARRATIVE…
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “«And he took pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself to teach them at some length» (Mk 6,34). Salesian youth ministry” in “Acts of the General Council of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco”
…An effort to re-formulate the traditional. educative and pastoral contents and methods. 1.2.3 Broadening the field for action in response to the new situation. 1.2.4 Benewal of the structures of…
Giovanni Bosco – “Memoirs of the oratory” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected Works”
…general key for interpreting it—a providential history led directly by God for the “salvation” of the young— and a series of other indications opening up two fundamental possibilities for interpretation:…