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:'''facoltà''':''school (uni)'' :'''famiglia''':''family'' :'''Famiglia salesiana''':''Salesian Family'' Applied in different ways to different groups according to degree of official adherence/recognition :'''famiglia spirituale''':''spiritual family'' The term is wider than that of Salesian Family. It refers to that vastness of pastoral charity in Don Bosco that wished to link and even aggregate (a technical term of his) people to his service for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Cf.also ''congregati''. The universal Church refers to the 'families' which arise from a charism as spiritual families of the Founder :'''famigliarità''':''familiarity'' In Italian there are two spellings, the older one listed here is that used by Don Bosco. In modern Italian we find 'familiarità' :'''fanciullo''':''youngster'' 8-12 years of age or thereabouts :'''fatevi amare''':''make yourselves loved'' Don Bosco's classic phrase and recommendation to his Salesians :'''fattura''':''invoice'' (accounting) :'''favorire''':''foster, on behalf of'' Avoid 'favour' unless it is clearly this :'''fede cristiana''':''Christian faith'' Where Don Bosco used the term religion we now use the term Christian faith (often without the capitalised version of faith). Salesian action is geared towards educating young people to a sound and active Christian faith :'''fedeltà dinamica''':''dynamic fidelity'' The term comes from ''Evangelica Testificatio'' 1971. It is used in reference to the founding charism :'''festa salesiana''':''Salesian festivity'' These joyful and festive features of the primitive Oratory were not lost sight of during its period of development :'''fiction''':''telefilm based on real events, real lives'' The English word has only recently, but forcefully entered the Italian language to describe films (of real events and people such as a biography of DB but Jesus Christ is also a candidate!) which are then transposed into the TV medium. Another word that has entered the (Italian) language as a twin is ''reality'' - to describe the TV medium again but this time for situations that reflect reality but where the events and people are fictional. STrange, but there you have it! :'''Figli di Maria''':''Sons of Mary'' The reference is to late vocations and the ''Opera dei Figli di Maria'' or Sons of Mary Programme. More accurately, the Sons of Mary (young men between 16-30) were the fruits of the Opera di Maria Ausiliatrice or Work of Mary Help of Christians, presented to Pius IX in 1874 along with the proposal for the Salesian Cooperators. Both projects were approved in May 1876 by the Pope. Hence the Sons of Mary were the fruit of the group's effort to recruit and educate priestly vocations :'''Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice FMA''':''Daughters of Mary Help of Christians FMA'' Founded by St Mary Mazzarello with Don Bosco. FMA is retained for all language versions. The more common colloquial term is ''Salesian Sisters''. In some countries, especially in northern Europe, they are referred to as Don Bosco Sisters :'''figliuoli''':''boys, sons, children''' A term used by DB in reference either to the boys at the Oratory or to his Salesians :'''fioretti''':''good actions, small act of sacrifice, but also, little (usually exhortative, edifying) stories'' The term has a range of meanings in Salesian use - probably today, the last of the three meanings, little stories, is the most common. ''Fioretti salesiani'' are the kinds of little examples, brief personal edifying stories, mostly, (cf. esempio) that visiting Superiors like to tell the community :'''fisionomia''':''special character, shape'' :'''Flash''':''FLASH'' A technical Salesian term for the annual written collection of statistics sent to the General Administration from the provinces :'''Fondazione Don Bosco nel Mondo''':''Don Bosco in the World Foundation'' Now adopted as the name of a registered (in Italian law) entity as described. A formal entity for receiving donations for Salesian causes :'''Fondo di solidarietà del Rettor Maggiore''':''Rector Major's solidarity fund'' Monies usually sent to The Centre by the provinces and disbursed according to need, directly by the Rector Major (though after hearing from the province where the request comes from) :'''fondo Don Bosco''':''Don Bosco collection'' Not to be confused wtih finances. Here 'fondo' has the meaning of a basic collection of original documents, and may be applied to other persons or occasions in Salesian history, e.g. Fondo Don Rua... :'''Fondo Missioni''':''Missions Fund'' An official channel via the General Administration for distributing mission funds :'''formatore''':''formator'' :'''formazione''':''formation, but also, in context, education'' Italian is much more like to speak of ''formazione'' where English might use ''education'', but the terms ''formazione'' and ''educazione'' are interchangeable in Italian, and refer especially to the gaining of attitudes and understanding. Obviously the term is also applied to religious formation :'''formazione cristiana''':''Christian formation'' While the meaning of the term if fairly obvious, it helps to understand that it appears, in Salesian documents, often in the context of a description of the services we offer, e.g. through the parish ("a parish that evangelises"), or in the Oratory, or school... Christian formation, then, belongs very much within the ambit of the oratory criterion :'''Formazione dei Salesiani di Don Bosco''':''Formation of the Salesians of Don Bosco'' Title of the ''Ratio Fundamentalis'' :'''formazione iniziale''':''initial formation'' The period of initial formation for a Salesian includes the immediate preparation for novitiate, the novitiate and post novitiate period and preparation for final profession :'''formazione intellettuale''':''intellectual formation'' One of the main elements of initial formation of the Salesian, along with a humanistic and spiritual formation. Intellectual formation today involves a solid cultural formation as well :'''formazione permanente''':''ongoing (or continuous) formation'' :'''formazione professionale''':''vocational training'' In general, the qualifier 'professionale' would apply more to trade preparation in the English language context. It may not always refer to 'occupational' of course - could be straight 'technical.' ''Formazione'', ''Formazione Professionale'' are technical terms in educational legislation in Italy :'''Formazione professionale iniziale''':''initial vocational training'' This term is a technical one in Italian educational legislation and probably would not normally be found in its English translation, where it does not have a normal equivalent :'''formazione specifica''':''specific formation'' The term is a technical one in the context of the Salesian Ratio and refers to the differentiation between the candidate for Salesian priesthood and the Salesian Brother :'''fragilità vocazionale''':''vocational frailty'' :'''frazione''':''hamlet'' The word is found in Salesian reference usually in its meaning of a small group of houses--even less than a village. Cf also ''Borgata'' :'''Freìsa''':''grape variety in Piedmont :'''fuga mundi''':[LA] literally, ''flight from the world'' :'''Fusagasugá''':''Place name in Colombia but refers to a Social Communication project in Latin America begun in 1992''(:nl:)