How the Salesian Charism has been implanted and taken root in a country is indeed a very interesting and at the same time a very challenging theme. In the case of Viet Nam the planting and the growing processes seem to be neatly cut, surrounded by the turbulent events of the history of modern Viet Nam.
This paper aims to present the situation prevailing in the Kingdom of Siam at the time of the arrival of the first Salesians and the unexpected turn of evens which posed challenges to them.
The Salesians landed in Macao on 13 February 1906 to take over the management of a diocesan orphanage and set up a school of arts and crafts, with the aim of expanding gradually into China proper, which they first did in 1911, shortly after the Portuguese republican revolution forced the them out of the enclave.
This study also aims to present the various congregations founded by some of the Salesian missionaries who worked in the East Asian region of the known Salesian world.
The scope of this paper is to give a general – and not a comprehensive – background that will help us understand the political and ecclesial situation vis-á-vis the Salesian expansion in the EAO region in the 1950s.
This paper could be considered precisely the second part of the one presented at the previous seminart. It is my intention to present a general framework within which many of the other papers that follow will find their place – at least those which will directly or indirectly refer to the third decade of the XX century.
Canon 710 defines as secular institute as follows: A secular institute is an institute of consecrated life in which the Christian faithful living in the world strive for the perfection of charity and work for the sanctification of the world especially from within.
Fr. Carlo Della Torre SDB is the Founder of the Institute of the Daughters of the Queenship of Mary. The History and the development of this Institution are strictly connected with the life of the Founder.
The universal call of the people of God to holiness is carried out in a special way by the members of the Congregation of Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (SIHM). The sign of God’s merciful love towards the lnstitute is clearly manifested in the history especially at the time of birth in the Church, through its founder and its history.
La diletta Società Salesiana si prepara a ricordare con opportune iniziative il 1° centenario della morte di san Giovanni Bosco, padre e maestro dei giovani, perciò mi è gradito cogliere l’occasione per riflettere ancora una volta sul problema dei giovani, meditando sulle responsabilità che la Chiesa ha nella loro preparazione al domani. La Chiesa, infatti, ama intensamente i giovani: sempre, ma soprattutto in questo periodo ormai vicino all’anno Duemila, si sente invitata dal suo Signore a guardare ad essi con speciale amore e speranza, considerando la loro educazione come una delle sue primarie responsabilità pastorali. Continue reading “Giovanni Paolo II – “Lettera «Iuvenum Patris» di Giovanni Paolo II” in “Padre e Maestro dei giovani”.”
Spesse volte vidi e ascoltai Don Rua; non poche volte gli parlai; vissi venticinque anni di vita salesiana, quando si sentiva il crescente e salutare influsso del suo governo. Durante questo tempo la figura di lui mi venne sempre più grandeggiando dinanzi allo spirito; la fama poi che lo seguì oltre la tomba, me la fece ingigantire. Ora che il lavoro, bene o male, è finito, debbo senza falsa modestia confessare che lo trovo di troppo inferiore a quello che meriterebbe l’importanza dell’argomento. Continue reading “Eugenio Ceria – Vita del servo di Dio Don Michele Rua primo successore di San Giovanni Bosco.”
ln the year in which Pope Pius XI promulgated the encyclical Rerum Ecclesiae (1926),on 16 February 1926, the Salesian missionaries arrived in Miyazaki, Japan, center of their mission, and capital of the province in the Island of Kyushu.
After the permission from the General Council was obtained, Sr. Catherine Moore, delegate of the Provincial Superior, left Hongkong for the Philippines on 1° December 1955 with Sr. Erminia Borzini to make the necessary preparations.
The aim of this article is to present the beginning of the work of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Thailand. The FMA came to Thailand invited by Fr. Gaetano Pasotti, Acting Provincial of the Salesian Congregation and later the fust Salesian Bishop in Thailand, to help in the mission field of the Salesian Fathers who arrived in Thailand on October 1927 , after they were sent away from China.
The first article of the constitution of the FMA expresses this characteristic of the institute as follows:
“Through the gift of the Holy Spiril and the direct intervention of Mary, St. John Bosco Founded our Institute as a response of salvation to the profound hopes of young girls. He endowed it with a spiritual heritage that had its inspiration in the charity of Christ the Good Shepherd, and imparted to it a strong missionary impulse”. (Const.I ).
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