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.
Our saint’s Salesian inspiration emerges from these letters, in harmony with the teachings of St Francis de Sales in the Introduction to the Devout Life and letters of spiritual direction. There are twelve items of correspondence here which document the range of Don Bosco’s relationships and the concrete nature of his spiritual ‘school’.
Reference time period: 1862 – 1878
G. Bosco, “Spiritual advice for friends, cooperators and benefactors” in Section three. Guidelines for a coherent and active christianity” in “Part three. Writings and testimonies of Don Bosco on spiritual life” by Aldo Giraudo in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works“, LAS – Kristu Jyoti, Rome – Bangalore 2017, 1039-1050.
Reference institution:
Istituto Storico Salesiano