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Draw Upon the Spiritual Experience of Don Bosco

In honor of Don Bosco’s Feast day, and in line with this years study theme in preparation for the celebration of the bicentenary of Don Bosco’s birth (16 August 2015), we have put together this collection of articles from the Journal of Salesian Studies. We invite you, then, to take a few moments in the […]

The Youth Minister as Mystic and Martyr

The Youth Minister as Mystic and Martyr

by David O’Malley, SDB   Subjects: Recognizing and Supporting Religious Experience in Young People The Development of Religious Experience Personal Experience v. Creedal Formulas Validating Personal Experience More Recent Data The Nature of Religious Experience Common Characteristics of Religious Experience Ineffable Noetic Transient Passive The Feeling Elements of Religious Experience The Interpretation Problem A Language […]

The Salesian Brother’s Spiritual Identity: A Lay Consecrated Youth Minister

The Salesian Brother's Spiritual Identity: A Lay Consecrated Youth Minister

by Br. John M. Rasor, SDB   Subjects: Writings from the Founding Period Names Don Bosco’s Constitutions The 3rd and 4th General Chapters The Coadjutors The Constitutions and General Chapters on Formation Identity in Today’s Rules Summary of the Renewal Process The Special General Chapter and World Congress of Salesian Brothers General Chapter 21 Fr. […]

The Founding and Early Expansion of the Salesian Work in the San Francisco Area from Archival Documents – Part 2: Early Expansion (1897-1910)

The Founding and Early Expansion of the Salesian Work in the San Francisco Area from Archival Documents Part 2: Early Expansion 1897 to 1910

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB Subjects: Introduction Preliminary Comment: The Salesian Province of St. Philip the Apostle for North America The Church of Corpus Christi at the “Mission Street Gardens” Founding of Corpus Christi Church Corpus Christi Church and the Rua-Cassini Correspondence St. Joseph Portuguese Church, Oakland, CA Historical Notice on Portuguese Immigrants and on […]