(ANS – Rome) – How should one approach the 4,682 letters written by Don Bosco between 1836 and 1888 and collected in the ten volumes of the Epistolario, edited by Francesco Motto between 1991 and 2023 and now available online through the Salesian Historical Institute? There are, of course, many ways to read them, but several are explored in the new volume L’Epistolario di Don … Continuar leyendo A New Study of Don Bosco’s Letters

(ANS – Rome) – A new documentary dedicated to Don Bosco and his pastoral and inclusive work on behalf of young people and the most vulnerable has recently been produced and is set to be released soon on Sky Sport and the NOW streaming platform. Edited by Tommaso Liguori, the film highlights in particular Don Bosco’s insight that sport could — and still can — … Continuar leyendo “Don Bosco: The Saint of Young People and Sport”: A New Documentary Coming Soon

(ANS – Jerusalem) – Celebrating Don Bosco in the Holy City of Jerusalem is not merely a liturgical event; it is an act of hope. With this conviction, on Saturday, January 31, the Salesian community in Jerusalem gathered at the Ratisbonne Institute: Salesians, members of the Salesian Family, students of the Studium Theologicum Salesianum, religious men and women, and friends of Don Bosco came together … Continuar leyendo Don Bosco Celebrated in the Holy Land

(ANS – Milan) – In view of the Feast of Don Bosco, celebrated on January 31, the Fondazione Opera Don Bosco Onlusrenews its commitment to the world’s most vulnerable children and young people, presenting a model of aid that has grown and expanded over time: long-distance support for educational communities. Alongside traditional long-distance support, which enables thousands of children to receive assistance, protection, and opportunities for growth, a … Continuar leyendo Feast of Don Bosco: Happiness Multiplies When Shared

(ANS – Rome) – When Don Bosco presented his Preventive System, he summarized it in three simple yet powerful words: reason, religion, and loving kindness. On these three pillars, he educated thousands of young people in Valdocco and in many other houses, and on these same foundations the Salesian world continues to build schools, oratories, and social works throughout the world. This is not an … Continuar leyendo Three Words That Have Educated Generations: Reason, Religion, and Loving-Kindness

(ANS – Rome) – With the Novena to St. John Bosco beginning today (1/22/2025), ANS is offering a series of articles intended to accompany this time of preparation for the Feast of the Saint of Youth through a genuine spiritual and charismatic journey. Starting from the original call, narrated in the dream of the nine-year-old in “The Dream That Changed a Life,” the journey moves … Continuar leyendo “The Dream That Changed a Life”: From a Nine-Year-Old’s Dream to the Discernment of a Mission

(ANS – Rome) – Today marks the start of the campaign ‘Lettere [IM]possibili. Risposte dall’800’ ([IM]possible Letters: Responses from the 1800s), which aims to raise awareness and curiosity about the monumental work of Don Bosco’s Epistolary, a documentary heritage collected with passion and dedication over many years by Salesian priest Fr. Francesco Motto. With the publication of the tenth and final volume in 2024, the … Continuar leyendo LETTERE [IM]POSSIBILI: A Social Media Campaign on Don Bosco’s Correspondence

(ANS – Rome) – On May 16 1887, exactly 138 years ago, Don Bosco, by then tired and physically undermined, celebrated his first and only Mass at the altar dedicated to Mary Help of Christians in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the Castro Pretorio in Rome. It was a deeply symbolic event: the church, built amidst a thousand obstacles and pains, was … Continuar leyendo Don Bosco and the Altar of Tears: a Mass, a Mission, and Fulfillment

(ANS – Facebook) – On Easter Sunday of the Holy Year of Redemption (April 1, 1934), Pope Pius XI declared Don Bosco a saint, to the great joy of the entire Catholic world, especially the Salesian Family. “He preferred above all to dedicate himself to boys and young people, particularly those abandoned by their parents, who led idle and wandering lives, exposed to the dangers … Continuar leyendo April 1, 2025: 91st Anniversary of the Canonization of Don Bosco

Editor Note: This inspiring article is the script for a short video tribute to St. John Bosco prepared by ANS. The link to the video is at the end. Enjoy a happy feast of Don Bosco! (ANS – Rome) – Don Bosco is perhaps the most amazing and fascinating saint history has ever produced. The humble work that he began for the welfare of his poor … Continuar leyendo Don Bosco: “The Fascinating Saint”

(ANS – Rome) – Don Bosco, a man of prayer and action, not only laid the foundations of an immense movement of people dedicated to the salvation of the young, but also left all his spiritual children a wealth of useful pointers for never losing direction. Between what he used to repeat, which was then picked up and witnessed by his contemporaries, and what he wrote … Continuar leyendo Twenty Posters Recalling Don Bosco and His Most Famous Sayings

“Give me souls, take away the rest.” + Don Bosco Continuar leyendo To the Salesian Family

Summer 1859. The war between France and Piedmont against Austria left many orphans after the battles of Magenta and Solferino and Don Bosco welcomed dozens of them. To cheer them up, he prepared a 20-day itinerary through the mountains of Monferrato. The places to visit are described in the “Casalis Dictionary“. This Dictionary, from Turin thanks to Abbot Godofredo Casalis, had the official name “Historical, geographical, … Continuar leyendo Don Bosco’s Summer Resource

By P. Natale CERRATO Did Don Bosco do politics? Yes, but not in the immediate sense of the word. He himself said that his politics were of the Our Father: souls to be saved, poor young people to be nurtured and educated. Don Bosco and Politics:Don Bosco lived intensely and with a conscious awareness of the problems, unprecedented for him also, of the great cultural … Continuar leyendo Don Bosco, Politics, and the Social Question

(ANS Turin) – To refer to the life of St John Bosco (1815-1888), a leading figure of nineteenth-century Piedmontese social holiness, without mentioning the world of dreams, is to suppress an important aspect of his identity. Through the dreams that God sent him, the life of the saint was marked by the supernatural. Between the ages of nine and ten Don Bosco had his first dream, … Continuar leyendo The Bicentenary of Saint John Bosco’s Childhood Dream, ‘Between Past and Present’

In order to mark the bicentenary of the foundational dream that Saint John Bosco experienced when only nine years of age (1824), this book offers readers reflections on a number of biblical and theological themes that emerge from the simplicity yet depth of that dream. In the first place, certain elements from the life and person of Jesus are presented as the model for a … Continuar leyendo Remembering A Dream – Studies for the Bicentenary of Don Bosco’s Dream of 1824