Educating for rest and leisure with Saint Francis de Sales
P. Wirth MORAND Life is not only made up of work and serious occupations; it is also punctuated...
life
Living Don Bosco’s Dream
Redaktor strony In the photo: Carlo GASTINI, the promoter and first leader of the Don Bosco Past...
Why are you shouting?
Fr Bruno FERRERO One day the master asked his disciples the following question: “Why do people shout when...
Educating for work and solidarity with Saint Francis de Sales
The child, once grown, is destined to integrate more or less quickly into the social...
Nostalgia
I am a medical oncologist with long years of professional work. I started attending the...
Educating the will with Saint Francis de Sales
With the faculties of the spirit, such as intellect and memory, one remains within the...
Interview with the Councillor for Missions, Fr. Jorge Mario CRISAFULLI
Could you briefly introduce yourself? I was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, on 19 March...
Young people protecting life: low-cost incubators for premature babies
Every year, over 1.5 million premature babies die worldwide due to lack of access to...
A Raging Bull; Humility, Work and Temperance (1876)
This vivid dream narrative, recounted by Don Bosco at the end of the 1876 spiritual...
The jar
A professor arrived in class with a glass jar, the kind usually used to preserve...
Family Education
Alongside the “sentiment for the child”, the 15th century saw the development of a sentiment...
Crown of the Seven Sorrows of Mary
St John Bosco The publication “Crown of the Seven Sorrows of Mary” represents a cherished devotion that St....
The Tenth Hill (1864)
Don Bosco’s dream of the “Tenth Hill”, recounted in October 1864, is one of the...
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...
Interview with the Rector Major, Fr. Fabio Attard
We had an exclusive interview with the Rector Major of the Salesians, Fr. Fabio Attard,...
Educating the Faculties of Our Spirit with Saint Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales presents the spirit as the highest part of the soul, governed...
Educating our emotions with Saint Francis de Sales
Modern psychology has demonstrated the importance and influence of emotions in the life of the...
Educating the body and its 5 senses with Saint Francis de Sales
A good number of ancient Christian ascetics often considered the body as an enemy,...
The name
In the Faculty of Medicine at a major university, the professor of anatomy distributed a...
In Memoriam. Cardinal Angelo Amato, SDB
The universal Church and the Salesian Family bid farewell for the last time on December...
Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B.: a cultured theologian between the West and the East
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, SDB, had the opportunity to know the late Cardinal Angelo Amato very...
The Jubilee of 2025 and the Jubilee Basilicas
On December 24, 2024, on Christmas Eve, the Pope opened the Bronze Door in St....
What a gift, time!
P. Stefano MARTOGLIO The start of a new year in our liturgy, is enlightened by the ancient blessing...
Saint Francis, promoter of culture
As the pastor of a diocese the vast majority of which was made up of...
Halloween: a holiday to celebrate?
Wise men tell us that to understand an event, one must know what its origin...
Remember the sermon
One Sunday, around noon, a young woman was washing salad in the kitchen, when she...
The new rooms of the Salesian General Postulation
Fr Pierluigi CAMERONI On 4 June 2024, the new rooms of the Salesian General Postulation located at the...
Missionaries 2024
On Sunday 29 September, at 12:30 p.m. (UTC+2),at the basilica of Mary Help of Christians...
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 letter from Rome (1884)
In 1884, while in Rome, a few days before returning to Turin, Don Bosco had...
St Francis de Sales as a young student in Paris
In 1578 Francis de Sales was 11 years old. His father, wishing to make...
St Joseph – a Father’s Heart (video)
St Joseph, the foster-father of Jesus, is a not a well known saint, Little has...
This is love…
Ángel Card. FERNÁNDEZ ARTIME his is the simple and silent good that Don Bosco did. This is the good...
The stork and its duties
The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird, unmistakable for its tapering red beak,...