…the Salesian Family. This letter encourages engagement with the Institute’s journey and emphasizes its relevance to our charism, spirituality, and mission as a Salesian Family in the Church and the…
Capitolo Generale dei Salesiani di Don Bosco – “Educating the young people to the faith” in “General Chapter of the Salesian of Don Bosco”
click to download pdf The Acts of GC23 provide essential guidance for our life and apostolic activity. They include documents on youth faith education, amendments to Constitutions and Regulations, rule…
Arthur Lenti – “Don Bosco’s golden years with general indexes for the series” in “Don Bosco: history and spirit, vol. 7”
click to download pdf Volume 7, the last in the series Don Bosco: History and Spirit, surveys Don Bosco’s Life and activity in the late seventies and eighties, roughly his…
Giovanni Bosco – “Section six. Spiritual Testament” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”
…community with a primarily formative function; seeing to fraternal charity; avoiding “comfort” and “ease” as they are lethal dangers to the survival of the Congregation; attention to the privileged “children…
Giovanni Bosco – “Personal letters to Salesians and Daughters of Mary Help of christians” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”
click to download pdf These brief items of correspondence, written in familiar tone, contain simple advice on spiritual life. Don Bosco knew those he wrote to, their character, defects, the…
Arthur Lenti – “Don Bosco’s last years, his last illness and saintly death from eyewitness accounts” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
…his last illness and death, with focus on the person, and with emphasis on words and attitudes. For this it will rely on eyewitness accounts, the chronicles and memoirs authored…
Giovanni Bosco – “Spiritual formation of the young through preaching, “goodnights” and dream accounts” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”
click to download pdf In Don Bosco’s educational system preaching has special importance, both that which is bound up with the liturgical or catechetical context, and that of the informal,…
Giovanni Bosco – “Spiritual counsel in Don Bosco’s letters to boys and older youth” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”
click to download pdf St John Bosco’s correspondence mirrors his manifold activities as a promoter of educational and welfare type work, publishing and missionary enterprises. Also documented is the broad…
Arthur Lenti – “Institutional expansion” in “Don Bosco: history and spirit, vol. 5”
click to download pdf This fifth volume in the series, Don Bosco: History and Spirit, is chiefly devoted to a description of the institutional expansion of the Salesian work. The…
John Nguyen Van Ty – “Salesian charism in Vietnam. 39 years of sowing and growth in the stormy history of the country” in “Implantation of the Salesian charism in Asia – Ideals, challenges, answers, results”
…worldwide and thus began the third phase of growth and development. Come si è impiantato e radicato il carisma salesiano in un Paese è davvero un tema molto interessante e…
Giovanni Bosco – “Guidelines for running salesian houses (1863-1887)” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”
click to download pdf The Confidential Reminders, originating from a letter to Fr. Michael Rua in 1863, evolved into a comprehensive guideline for Salesian rectors, directors, and educators. Initially a…
Giovanni Bosco – “Reminders to practise the Preventive System (1884-1885)” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected Works”
click to download pdf In his 1877 booklet on pedagogy, Don Bosco highlights the advantages of the Preventive System and other reasons for which it should be preferred. At the…
Giovanni Bosco – “Salesian Cooperators Association” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected works”
click to download pdf The Salesian Cooperators association, which came into being in 1876, just two years after the approval of the Constitutions of the Salesian Society, is the last…
Giovanni Bosco – “Educational reading and spreading good books (1860-1885)” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected Works”
…to Fr J. B. Lemoyne, the Rector/Director of a boarding school, emphasizing Don Bosco’s comprehensive commitment to fostering the intellectual and moral growth of the youth in his care. Reference…
Giovanni Bosco – “Society of St Francis de Sales” in “Salesian Sources 1. Don Bosco and his work. Collected work”
…in force and the canonical practice of the era. These demanded reasonable time for experimentation and acceptance of the animadversiones, which Don Bosco instead felt ran contrary to the complete…