From the Pharisee’s Table to the Heart of Ministry
P. Fabio ATTARD Humility and Charity in the Education and Evangelisation of Young People In chapter 14 of...
virtue
In Don Bosco’s footsteps: Blessed Michael Rua (1837-1910)
Fr Pierluigi CAMERONI “We will always go halves!” At 9 years of age Michael (already fatherless) was admitted...
Educating the will with Saint Francis de Sales
P. Wirth MORAND With the faculties of the spirit, such as intellect and memory, one remains within the...
On 20th October, the Novena of Blessed Michele Rua begins
Blessed Michele Rua (1837-1910) represents an extraordinary figure in the history of Salesian spirituality. As...
A Raging Bull; Humility, Work and Temperance (1876)
Redaktor strony This vivid dream narrative, recounted by Don Bosco at the end of the 1876 spiritual...
The jar
Fr Bruno FERRERO 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...
Saint Monica, mother of Saint Augustine, witness of hope
A woman of unshakeable faith, of fruitful tears, answered by God after seventeen long years....
The shepherdess, the sheep and lambs (1867)
St John Bosco In the following passage, Don Bosco, founder of the Valdocco Oratory, recounts a dream he...
To the heights! Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati
“Dearest young people, our hope is Jesus. It is He, as Saint John Paul II...
Prophets of Forgiveness and Gratuity
In these times, where day after day the news communicates experiences of conflict, war, and...
The Education of Conscience with St. Francis de Sales
It was most likely the advent of the Protestant Reformation that brought the issue of...
Don Jose-Luis Carreno, Salesian missionary
Fr. José Luis Carreño (1905-1986) was described by historian Joseph Thekkedath as “the most beloved...
The tree
A man had four children. He wanted his children to learn not to judge things...
The Tenth Hill (1864)
Don Bosco’s dream of the “Tenth Hill”, recounted in October 1864, is one of the...
Female education with Saint Francis de Sales
The educational thinking of Saint Francis de Sales reveals a profound and innovative vision of...
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 Syndrome of Philip and the Syndrome of Andrew
In the Gospel account of John, chapter 6, verses 4-14, which recounts the multiplication of...
Educating the Human Heart with Saint Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales places the heart at the centre of human formation, as the...
The Evangelical Radicality of Blessed Stefano Sándor
Stefano Sándor (Szolnok 1914 – Budapest 1953) was a Salesian coadjutor martyr. A cheerful and...
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...
Is Confession Still Necessary?
The Sacrament of Confession, often overlooked in today’s hectic world, remains for the Catholic Church...
Young people’s gifts to Mary (1865)
In a dream recounted by Don Bosco in the Chronicle of the Oratory, dated May...
St Dominic Savio. The places of his childhood
P. Natale CERRATO Saint Dominic Savio, the “little great saint,” lived his brief but intense childhood among the...
The way to hell paved with feeble resolutions (1873)
San Giovanni Bosco recounts in a “good night” the result of a long plea to...
Educating our emotions with Saint Francis de Sales
Modern psychology has demonstrated the importance and influence of emotions in the life of the...
Purity and ways it can be safeguarded (1884)
In this dream of Don Bosco, a heavenly garden appears: a green slope, festooned trees,...
Venerable Francesco (Francis) Convertini, pastor according to the Heart of Jesus
The venerable Father Francesco Convertini, a Salesian missionary in India, emerges as a shepherd after...
Don Elia Comini: martyr priest at Monte Sole
Prof. Lodovica Maria ZANET On December 18, 2024, Pope Francis officially recognized the martyrdom of Don Elia Comini (1910-1944),...
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,...
Vera Grita, pilgrim of hope
Vera Grita, daughter of Amleto and Maria Anna Zacco della Pirrera, was born in...
The name
In the Faculty of Medicine at a major university, the professor of anatomy distributed a...
The handkerchief of purity (1861)
On June 16, Don Bosco gave the boys the spiritual nosegay to pray for...
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...
Saint Francis de Sales, founder of a new school of perfection
For Francis de Sales, religious life is “a school of perfection”, in which one...
Profiles of families wounded in the history of Salesian holiness
1. Stories of wounded families We are used to imagining the family as a harmonious...
Andrew Beltrami virtuous profile (2/2)
(continuation from previous article) 3. Story of a soul3.1. Loving and suffering Fr Barberis sketches...
St Francis de Sales, personal companion
‘My spirit always accompanies yours,’ wrote Francis de Sales one day to Jeanne de...
Andrew Beltrami virtuous profile (1/2)
The Venerable Fr Andrea Beltrami (1870-1897) is an emblematic expression of a constitutive dimension...
Life according to the Spirit in Mamma Margaret (2/2)
(continuation from previous article) 4. Exodus to her son’s priesthood From the dream at the...
Saint Francis, promoter of culture
As the pastor of a diocese the vast majority of which was made up of...
Life according to the Spirit in Mamma Margaret (1/2)
Fr Lemoyne leaves us a truly outstanding portrait in his preface to the life...
The safe tradition of Blessed Michael Rua (2/2)
(continuation from previous article) 2. Some traits of the theological virtues in Fr Rua2.1. Fr...
The safe tradition of Blessed Michael Rua (1/2)
“Be good, trust in God and paradise will be yours” (Blessed Michael RUA) Blessed...
What is the ordinary activity of the devil and how to counter it
The devil’s temptation does not produce its devastating consequences if our human will, with God’s...
The new rooms of the Salesian General Postulation
On 4 June 2024, the new rooms of the Salesian General Postulation located at the...
Blessed Alberto Marvelli: a beacon of faith and social commitment in the 20th century
In the panorama of the great witnesses of faith of the 20th century, the name...
The Good Shepherd gives his life: Father Elia Comini on the 80th anniversary of his sacrifice
Monte Sole is a hill in the Apennines near Bologna that until the Second...
A truly blind man
An ancient Persian fable tells of a man who had only one thought: to possess...
An interesting court case at Valdocco
Fr Francesco MOTTO A letter to the magistrate of the City of Turin dated 18 April 1865 opens...
A great collaborator of Don Bosco: Fr Antonio Sala
An important but practically unknown figure in the history of the early years of the...
The Dream of the Elephant (1863)
Unable to give the strenna to his pupils on the last day of the year,...
Correcting “rebellious children” with St Francis de Sales
In September 1594, Francis de Sales, provost of the cathedral, arrived, accompanied by his...
The hands of God
A master was travelling with a disciple in charge of looking after the camel. One...
Nino, a young man like so many… meets the purpose of life in his Lord
Nino Baglieri was born in Modica Alta on 1 May 1951 to his mother...
Mother Rosetta Marchese: deeply Salesian educator because rooted in Christ
Mother Rosetta Marchese, Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, was Superior General from 1981 to...
St Francis de Sales as a young student in Paris
In 1578 Francis de Sales was 11 years old. His father, wishing to make...
Servant of God Akash Bashir
On 25 February, we celebrated the feast of our Salesian protomartyrs, Bishop Aloysius Versiglia...
Prayers and invocations attracting indulgences
We sometimes here the question, what is the most powerful prayer?The wording is certainly wrong,...
Life of Saint Joseph, spouse of Mary Most Holy, earthly father of Jesus Christ (3/3)
(continuation from previous article) Chapter 20. Death of St Joseph. – His burial.Nunc dimittis servum...
Life of Saint Joseph, spouse of Mary Most Holy, earthly father of Jesus Christ (2/3)
(continuation from previous article) Chapter 9. The Circumcision.Et vocavit nomen eius Iesum. (And he named...
Life of Saint Joseph, spouse of Mary Most Holy, earthly father of Jesus Christ (1/3)
Saint Joseph is patron of the Church and also co-patron of the Salesian Congregation. From...
Salesian Protomartyrs: Aloysius (Louis) Versiglia and Callistus Caravario
Louis and Callistus: the same missionary vocation for the salvation of souls, but a different...
Being lovable like Don Bosco (2/2)
(continuation from previous article) 5) Being authenticIn the digital age, authentic people are very important....
Alberto Marvelli, the Christian that even the Communists liked
Alberto Marvelli (1918-1946), a young man formed in the Salesian oratory in Rimini, lived his...
Being lovable like Don Bosco (1/2)
Being lovable is a human quality that is cultivated, accepting the effort that it so...
Don Bosco’s last will and testament
With a will, as we know, someone disposes of their belongings for the time...
The Exercise for a Happy Death in Don Bosco’s educational experience (1/5)
P. Aldo GIRAUDO The annual All Souls Day commemoration presents us with reality that no one can deny:...
Progress
An explorer was travelling through the immense forests of the Amazon in South America. He...
Venerable Archbishop Antônio de Almeida Lustosa “father and friend of the poor”
On 22 June 2023, the Holy Father Francis received Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the...
This is love…
Ángel Card. FERNÁNDEZ ARTIME his is the simple and silent good that Don Bosco did. This is the good...
Don Bosco’s gaze
But who would believe it? Don Bosco’s ‘vision’ was such that he… saw so many...
The stork and its duties
The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird, unmistakable for its tapering red beak,...
St Francis de Sales. Gentleness (7/8)
Fr Gianni GHIGLIONE (continuation from previous article) GENTLENESS IN SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES (7/8) Some episodes from Francis’s...
St Francis de Sales. The Eucharist (6/8)
(continuation from previous article) THE EUCHARIST IN SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES (6/8) Francis received his...
Don Bosco and his daily crosses
Don Bosco’s life had much suffering but he bore it all with heroic humility and...
Rector Major’s Message. That young man said to me: “My passion is Christ”
It had been many years since I had last heard that expression from a young...
The invisible other Don Boscos
Readers of the Salesian Bulletin already know about the intercontinental journey that Don Bosco’s Casket...