…vocational culture Life is vocation Open to God and to others Lived as a gift and as a task 3. Aspects which have a special significance in vocational animation and…
Carlo Loots – The theory of presence of Andries Baart as a source of inspiration for education and assistance. Don Bosco as discussion partner/companion
…presence. Although the presence theory was developed for pastoral workers, this approach is inspiring for everyone who works with people (from the community police officer, nurse and social worker to…
Michal Vojtáš – Salesian pedagogy of choice and vocation: evolution, revision and proposals
…is linked to the challenges of the postmodern fluid societies; to the Salesian pedagogical principles of the past and to a transformational model of education, ministry and vocation. CONTENTS: 1….
Michal Vojtáš – Reviving Don Bosco’s oratory. Salesian Youth Ministry, leadership and innovative project management
…Objectives and Beyond 3. DON BOSCO IN THE ORATORY: PERMANENT RENEWAL CRITERION 3.1 Criterion for Vatican II Renewal Needed and Found 3.2 Consecrated Life and Organizational Research 3.3 Don Bosco’s…
Arthur Lenti – “Beginnins of the salesian society and its constitutions” in “Don Bosco: history and spirit, vol. 4”
click to download pdf This fourth volume of the series, Don Bosco: History and Spirit, focuses on the early Salesian constitutions as presented by Don Bosco for approval (1860-1874)–in the…
Giovanni Bosco – “Don Bosco’s ‘theology’ of religious life” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”
click to download pdf As an introduction to the first Italian edition of the Salesian Constitutions, published in 1875, Don Bosco wrote a wide-ranging letter To the Salesians, to guide…
Stanislaus Swamikannu – “A society in transition! A culture gone awry! A religion turned virtual! A human being in the making! All processes! – Not a doom but a creative challenge for the future” in “Con Don Bosco educatori dei giovani del nostro tempo”
…conflict is that reality and our perception and interpretation turn out to be ambiguous and uncertain, and relative as it is assumed to be. Concepts and realities once clear and…
Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “«Da mihi animas, cetera tolle». Let us draw upon the spiritual experience of Don Bosco, in order to walk in holiness according to our specific vocation. «The glory of God and the salvation of souls». Third year of preparation for the Bicentenary of his birth” in “Acts of the General Council of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco”
click to download pdf In this letter to fellow members of the Congregation, the Rector Major extends warm Christmas greetings and reflects on the significance of God’s incarnation. They highlight…
Giovanni Bosco – “Spiritual advice for friends, cooperators and benefactors” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”
click to download pdf 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…
William John Dickson – The dynamics of growth. The foundation and development of the salesians in England
click to download pdf What follows is an attempt to write a history of the foundation and development of the Salesians in England, from the origins in the 1940s up…
Eugene M. Brown – Dreams, Visions & Prophecies of Don Bosco
click to download pdf The work discusses the lack of encouragement in contemporary Western Christian society to consider dreams as a source of religious insight into life. The author highlights…
Giovanni Bosco – “Appeals to private charity” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”
click to download pdf The financial contributions asked for and obtained from public authorities and institutions were certainly not enough to help him confront the huge expenses of the Salesian…
Capitolo Generale XXVII Salesiani di don Bosco – “Witnesses to the radical approach of the Gospel” Work and temperance.
click to download pdf The Acts of the GC27 are divided into three fundamental parts: the text which develops the theme “Witnesses to the radical approach of the Gospel”; the…
Arthur Lenti – “Expansion of the salesian work in the new world & ecclesiological confrontation at home” in “Don Bosco: history and spirit, vol. 6”
click to download pdf The main part of this Volume 6 (Chs. 1-5) of the series, Don Bosco: History and Spirit, continues the survey of the Society’s Institutional Expansion begun…
Francesco Motto – Start afresh from Don Bosco. Meditations for a Spiritual Retreat
…to ourselves 4. A first step forward: educate ourselves and others to political virtues 5. A second step forward: educate ourselves and others to the Christian social virtues Conclusion 10….