Why are you shouting?
Fr Bruno FERRERO One day the master asked his disciples the following question: “Why do people shout when...
Fr Bruno FERRERO
Nostalgia
I am a medical oncologist with long years of professional work. I started attending the...
The jar
A professor arrived in class with a glass jar, the kind usually used to preserve...
Conversion
Conversation between a man recently converted to Christ and an unbelieving friend: “So you were...
Family Conversation
Son: “Have you heard what happened in Ukraine?” Father: “Bah!” Mother: “Is the soup salty...
The tree
A man had four children. He wanted his children to learn not to judge things...
The wise man
Emperor Cyrus the Great loved to converse amiably with a very wise friend named Akkad.One...
The cricket and the Coin
A wise man from India had a close friend who lived in Milan. They had...
The exegetes
A famous biblical scholar had invited a group of colleagues to his home. They sat...
The name
In the Faculty of Medicine at a major university, the professor of anatomy distributed a...
The perfume
One cold March morning, in a hospital, due to serious complications, a baby girl was...
I killed her for a piece of bread
A man who had not entered a church for twenty years hesitantly approached a confessional....
Remember the sermon
One Sunday, around noon, a young woman was washing salad in the kitchen, when she...
A truly blind man
An ancient Persian fable tells of a man who had only one thought: to possess...
A smile at dawn
A touching testimony by Raoul Follereau. He was in a leper colony on a Pacific...
The rose
The German poet Rilke lived for a time in Paris. To go to university, he...
The hands of God
A master was travelling with a disciple in charge of looking after the camel. One...
Being lovable like Don Bosco (2/2)
(continuation from previous article) 5) Being authenticIn the digital age, authentic people are very important....
Being lovable like Don Bosco (1/2)
Being lovable is a human quality that is cultivated, accepting the effort that it so...
Message at the end of the 42nd Salesian Spirituality Days
To my dearest Family My dearest sons and daughters, The dream that makes you dream....
The dream at 9 years of age. Genesis of a vocation
The 9-year-old’s dream presented in ten points, the genesis of a heavenly vocation, confirmed by...
The boat
One evening, two tourists who were at a campsite on the shores of a lake...
The train timetable
I knew a man who knew the railway timetable by heart, because the only thing...
Progress
An explorer was travelling through the immense forests of the Amazon in South America. He...
The miracle
This is the true story of an eight-year-old girl who knew that love can work...
Who doesn’t pray?
A farmer, on a market day, stopped to eat in a crowded restaurant where even...
The cleverest son
Long ago there was a man who had three sons whom he loved very much....