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Accompanying the Young: The Souls our Hearts Seek

Accompanying the Young the Souls Our Hearts Seek

by Mary Greenan, FMA   Subjects: A Passion for Souls New Wine in Some Old Skins? Starting Point for Accompaniment Love as the Indispensable Condition for Accompaniment Knowing the End of All Our Accompanying The Key Questions Then Are What Is the Basic Goal of Spiritual Accompaniment and What Needs to Be Accompanied? The Journey […]

Something about Mary: Reflections on Don Bosco, Mother Mazzarello and the Development of the “Spirit of Mornese”

Something About Mary: Reflections on Don Bosco Mother Mazzarello and the Development of the Spirit of Mornese

by Kaoru Tamura, FMA       Subjects: Introduction Mother Mazzarello’s Spiritual Preparation, and Life Experiences Ideological Formation Life Experiences and Activities Brought Up on the Farm Apprenticed to Work in Manual Trade as Adolescents Influenced by Bourgeois Diocesan Priests Independence to Envision a New Model of Religious Life Inspired by the Experience of Working […]

Salesian Mysticism: Towards the Ecstasy of Action

Salesian Mysticism: Towards the Ecstasy of Action

by Mary Greenan, FMA Subjects: Introduction Purpose: the Salesian of the Future A Challenge from Postmodernism Behind the Mystique of the Mystic The Marriage of Contemplation and Action Ecstasy in Action Prayer and Presence: Love in Action Women and Men of Fire Be Mystics or Die!

Our Sacred Story: A Changing Story or a Story of Change?

Our Sacred Story: A Changing Story or a Story of Change?

by Mary Greenan, FMA   Subjects: Introduction An End or a Beginning A Personal and Unfolding Story Unfolding the Story with the Young A Common, Cultural Story Editing the Story Lenses for Interpreting the Changes Our Sacred Story A Very Human Story A Story of Faith Unfolding An Unfolding Spiritual Story “No Longer Does our […]

Toward a Theology of the Body: An Analysis of the Letters of Maria Domenica Mazzarello

Towards a Theology of the Body: An Analysis of the Letters of Maria Domenica Mazzarello

by Edna MacDonald, FMA Subjects: Introduction Embodiment and Christian Spirituality Nineteenth-Century Italian Catholic Ascetical Practice: The Century of Asceticism Nineteenth-Century Italian Asceticism and Its Impact on Women A Theology of the Body: An Analysis of the Autobiographical Works of Maria Domenica Mazzarello Care for the Body, Not Distrust of the Body The Body Viewed Within […]

Mother Marie-Louise-Angelique Clarac and Don Bosco-An Idea Matures

Mother Marie Louise Angelique Clarac and Don Bosco: An Idea Matures

by Mary Treacy, FMA   Subjects: Who was Mother-Louise-Angelique Clarac? Early Life 1817-1841 1841-1848: Apostolate in France Algeria 1848-1851 Apostolate in Turin 1853-1887 Girls at Risk in Turin St. Maximus Sardinia Viale del Re – Via S. Pio V Dispute about Sr. Clarac’s Testament Bishope Moreno’s Advice Separation Mother Clarac and Don Bosco Style of […]