Tag: history
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Pedagogy: Study Guide, Dec 2012
This issue of “Getting to Know Don Bosco” is packed with rich insights. We begin with insights from this November’s gathering of Salesian scholars in Turin, we get a sneak preview of what is to come in future study guides that focus on Don Bosco’s spirituality. Then Fr. Giuseppe Buccellato shares a diagram he made that outlines…
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Apologetics
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…
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Political Climate of Don Bosco’s Day
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…
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An Advocate for the Young
-Fr. John Roche, SDB For this month of January, I will step out of the role of columnist and proudly express my Salesian identity. This is the month the Church remembers St. John Bosco, the Father and Teacher of the young. This marvelous saint is the founder of my order, the Salesians of Don Bosco,…