Salesian Studies

Category: 2011-2012 – History

  • Core Values

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    PDF – DB Study Guide – June & July 2012 Concluding a year of examining Don Bosco as a man of his times, we consider the core values of his life. Salesian Themes from Don Bosco’s Life. For a Salesian the mission is a threefold path of spiritual life… …The access offered everyday for achieving perfection;…

  • Apologetics

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    PDF – DB Study Guide – April & May 2012 Don Bosco’s Place in History: Apologetics & Catholic Faith Don Bosco’s Defense of the Church in his Anti-Waldensian apologetic The idea of writing a history of the Church may have occurred to Don Bosco at the Convitto, when he was engaged in catechizing his young people on…

  • Lenten Special: The Last Things, Death, Evil, and Sin

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    PDF – DB Study Guide – March 2012 As we enter into Lent, this issue of the Don Bosco Study Guide will look at Don Bosco’s religiosity and his pivotal understanding of the last things, death, evil, and sin. It  is  difficult  to  confine  a  study  of  Don  Bosco’s  educational  system  to  a  few  topics.  The  approach  to …

  • Political Climate of Don Bosco’s Day

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    PDF – DB Study Guide – February 2012 This issue looks at stages of Don Bosco’s lived experience, his view of the Vow of Obedience, & Important political figures in Don Bosco’s times. For the late Fr. Michael Ribotta, and investigation into the figure of Don Bosco would be incomplete without a thorough understanding of the…

  • The Gift of Understanding

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    PDF – DB Study Guide – January 2012 This issue of the Don Bosco Study Guide continues to look at the person of Don Bosco. We begin with reflections written by the great Salesian historian Fr. Pietro Stella. Fr. Stella gave us a critical historical analysis of Don Bosco from many vantage points. We will summarize Fr. Stella’s examination of…

  • Awareness of God’s Presence

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    PDF – DB Study Guide – December 2011  Comolllo’s Biographies, Preparation for Death, Accompanied to Accompanying: Don Bosco’s Biographies Pass on the Mission. Every attempt to harness this energy is met with frustration and disappointment. Despite this, Michele’s  pastor sees a deep goodness in the boy’s heart. This is the essential condition for holiness. Don…

  • Don Bosco’s Mentors and Spiritual Friends

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    PDF – DB Study Guide – November 2011 Don Bosco’s Mentor’s and Spiritual Friends Befriending the interior life …We turn our attention to the special and formative relationship with Luigi Comollo, Don Bosco’s closest school-time friend. It is no small detail that Saint John Bosco would enshine the friendship he shared with luigi Comollo in one of…

  • Don Bosco’s History

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    PDF – DB Study Guide – October 2011 This first study guide revisits Don Bosco’s story, as well as focus’ on his personal experience of accompaniment. The sources we have are amazing! The saint is so close to our own history that we have the richness of his own words, a plethora of eye-witnesses, chroniclers of many…