Focusing our “vision”
P. Fabio ATTARD Reflection on Mk 10:46-52 – Blind Bartimaeus The account of the healing of Bartimaeus,...
August 2026
Don Bosco’s surname
P. Natale CERRATO A surname can tell a story, evoke a place, and even become a source of...
We get to know Don Bosco (15). The definitive choice for the poor
Fr Bruno FERRERO At the most critical moment of the origins of the Oratory, Don Bosco finds himself...
Education and humanism in the time of St. Francis de Sales
P. Wirth MORAND When Francis de Sales was born in 1567, the world was changing its face. Gutenberg’s...
Don Bosco in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican
BSOL Editor On 31 January 1936, the Vatican Basilica welcomed the monument to St John Bosco. A...
The Salesian coat of arms. A programme of life enclosed in an image
There are images that do not limit themselves to representing an institution: they tell its...
Oceania calls us: the Vanuatu Project
On 13 December 2025, three Salesian missionaries landed in Vanuatu, an archipelago of 83 islands...
Four name days in ten days
Fr Francesco MOTTO And what name days! Don Bosco never forgot the name-day of religious authorities and benefactors,...
Venerable Attilio Giordani
Fr Pierluigi CAMERONI The figure of the Venerable Attilio Giordani (1913–1972) bears witness to how the charism of...
Let us get to know Don Bosco (14). The Marchioness of Barolo
Giulietta Colbert di Barolo, a French noblewoman marked by exile and by profound family trials,...
Three laces to lead to perdition (1869)
St John Bosco In the dream that Don Bosco recounted to his young people on the evening of...
An old man
A 92-year-old man, neatly dressed and taking great care of his appearance, was moving into...