austraLasia #3136
Two sets of useful resources
ROME: 25 September 2012
-- As promised, you can now access two sets of resources that
may be of
some value to some people during this second year of
Bicentneary
preparations focusing on Don Bosco's Pedagogy. One of
these resources
is available in English, the other in Italian.
The
life of Luigi Comollo, written by Don Bosco, is now available
in
English translation. If you are using Firefox as your
browser, you can
easily add an epub reader addon and then Comollo's life is
available to
read online as an ebook. If you do not have the addon or
you use
another browser, you could still read the epub in an e-reader.
If you want a hard copy in Word you
can download it from here. That URL might change
over the next 24 hours since we are doing some additional work
on SDL at the moment.
The Life of Young Luigi Comollo is of particular
interest since it was
written by the young Don Bosco in 1844, when he was just a
young
priest, and he chose to rewrite it in 1884 towards the end of
his life,
so it brackets the other three 'Lives' and may also help
interpret many
things about Don Bosco's pedagogical approach. The translator
has tried
to keep a balance between Don Bosco's style and the needs of
today's
reader. Hopefully he has succeeded!
The other item promised is only in Italian and not likely to
find
translation into English, but if the Italian texts are of some
value,
then feel free. They are available from donboscoland.it at
the following URL
The item you would be interested in is 'Educare come Don
Bosco' and it
is a set of resources (including three Lectio Divina pieces
one of
which has been prepared by Fr Frank Moloney) which focus on
monthly
topics to do with Don Bosco and his pedagogy, in keeping with
the
Strenna.