austraLasia #3213
Don Bosco - found in a drawer!
BRUSSELS : 7 April 2013
-- Yes, Don Bosco found in a drawer, but really,
you should continue
to read on and a little treasure might emerge for you! An
elderly
Belgian Salesian, Fr Josh Biesmans (with a similarly elder
brother
Salesian priest, Rick Biesmans, wrote a delightful narrative
life of
Don Bosco from a 1st person (Don Bosco's) point of view a good
number
of years back. He write it in Dutch, it was then translated to
French -
and then English, but at that stage put into a drawer and
forgotten
about (1998 was the year).
Today Rik found it and sent it to austraLasia - we
have put it in SDL.
If you like what you see below, then we think you will like
the whole
95 pages of it! Could be very useful for work with young
people - or
adults.
"My secondary school teacher
must have had it in for me when he remarked:
"What! You want to study
Latin? You only get donkeys coming out of the Becchi, good
ones but donkeys nevertheless!"
The class cheered and
clapped when I
as an awkward sixteen year old teenager, had to sit in the
benches with
those youngsters of the First Year. The teasing I got then
really hurt
me. I can smile now as I look back on that time. Contrary to
expectations I managed to skip a few forms. I must have
known a little
more in spite of being "a don-key from the Becchi."
Taking everything into
consideration,
years of hardship and great setbacks, I think it has all
been
worthwhile. They left a deep impression on me and for that I
have been
ever so grateful all my life.
What were Don Bosco's thoughts? How did he feel?
What influenced his life? What brought about that
extraordinary development?
You will find that out as you read the touching account of the
highlights of his life.
Assured then of this remarkable insight into his life, here is
a chance
to get to know Don Bosco as a source of inspiration, as an
educator and
as a man".