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:'''I Becchi''':''The Becchi'' The hamlet where Don Bosco was born and grew up, until he moved to Chieri for late primary and his secondary school studies :'''identità carismatica''':''charismatic identity'' Synonymous with Salesian identity or the indole propria or special character of the Salesian. Vocational Identity is an additional term employed frequently in our texts :'''identità salesiana''':''Salesian identity'' Identity is a term which collocates widely in Salesian literature - charismatic, spiritual, Salesian, priestly, lay, to name but a few. Salesian identity could also refer to St. Francis de Sales, but more commonly on SDB lips it refers to the specific character of the gift of the Spirit represented in Don Bosco and his Salesians :'''identità vocazionale''':''vocational identity'' Synonymous with other terms such as Salesian identity, charismatic identity, this term began its ecclesial journey with Vatican II's call to each institute to renew its sense of identity. The Special General Chapter (SGC) was the Chapter which carried out this renewal within the Congregation, from which came the renewed Constitutions. They directly employ the term (e.g. C. 97) :'''Il Direttore Salesiano. Un ministero per l'animazione e il governo della comunità locale''':''The Salesian Rector. A ministry for the animation and government of the local community'' Title of guide for the Salesian Rector sometimes simply called the Rector's Handbook :'''il primo responsabile''':''The first in responsibility for...'' In addition to being guide of the community the Rector is the first in responsibility for the mission. But the term is applied to the community in its own right too, especially within the EPC where it is first in responsibility for formation, spirituality, animation. Although it must be said that the Rector is similarly named for this responsibility within the EPC :'''Immacolata (Concezione)''':''Immaculate Conception, Mary Immaculate'' The full term refers to a dogma of the Church concerning Mary's singular grace in being conceived without sin proclaimed on 8th December 1854. Often, in Don Bosco's and subsequent Salesian reference, it is shortened to ''The Immaculate'' :'''imborghesimento''':''tendency to become middle class, a soft and easy life'' Given that rather large proportions of Salesian activity today take place in a context which in Don Bosco's time would be considered decidedly middle class, some care is required in understanding this term today. A clue lies in SGC and a letter of Fr Ricceri's in October 1974 where the English translates 'imborghesimento' as 'soft and easy life' in contrast to the concept of work and temperance and Don Bosco's thinking about rolling up our sleeves and getting down to work :'''impegno sociale''':''social involvement'' The Italian impegno is a term that one seeks in vain before 1970 in Salesian texts, but from this time onwards it appears frequently. The SGC (1971-2) devoted a long article to Salesian commitment to justice in the world :'''impresa''':''enterprise, business venture''

 The Italian term can have a general reference, e.g. to an ''impresa missionaria'' or ''apostolica''. But in more recent times, when applied to the field of social communications it implies something closer to ''azienda'' or business venture

:'''in definitiva''':''after all, when all is said and done'' :'''incaricato''':''person in charge'' A less standard form seen in some Salesian documents is ''incharge'' or ''in-charge''. Such non-standard terms are to be discouraged as they are simply direct transfer from the Italian into non-standard English :'''incassi''':''incomes'' (accounting) :'''inculturazione''':''inculturation'' Note that this is distinct from enculturation. It means integrating Christian faith in human culture(s). The term begins to appear in ecclesial documents from about 1979 onwards, with a sort of definition from Pope John Paul II who saw it, in a comment he made to the Pontifical Biblical Commission, as a term which expressed very well one aspect of the great mystery of the Incarnation . Its appearance in Salesian vocabulary can be owed in a particular way to representatives from Bangalore (India) at the Special General Chapter 20 (1971-72)... which is interesting since it has been claimed that the term really came into existence in 1973 from a Protestant theologian teaching in New York! The Jesuits took it up at their 32nd GC (1975) translating it as ''inculturatio'' (since Latin does not permit ''enculturatio''). Italian only has the word ''inculturazione'' since en- is not a prefix in that language. It may use the word ''socializzazione'' to express what English means by ''enculturation'' :'''industrie''':''strategems, tricks, inducements'' :'''inserimento sociale''':''slotting into society'' Insertion is not really the sense of the Italian word in this context; it is more one of fitting in, involvement, even with a sense of commitment :'''inserirsi''':''to participate'' Avoid glossing with ''insert'' unless it is clear that this is the better choice :'''intenzionalità''':''deliberateness (of)'' ''Intentionality'' is too Latinate :'''Interamerica''':''A current Salesian Region'' :'''internato''':''boarding establishment'' Could be a hostel, even a boarding school. Antonym with ''esternato'' :'''intervento''':''statement, speech, intervention'' Avoid glossing with intervention unless it is clear that this is the better choice :'''invigilatore''':''invigilator'' A role found in DB's Regulations for the Oratory :'''Irmas de Jesús Adolescente IJA''':''Sisters of Jesus, Adolescent'' Founded in 1938 in Campo Grande Brazil by Bishop Prinate. Member group of the Salesian Family :'''irrinunciabile''':''inalienable ((or in context, 'cannot be done without')'' :'''ispettore''':''provincial'' DB chose terms which had resonance within civil society at the time (inspector), rather than an ecclesiastical term :'''ispettoria''':''province'' :'''istituti religiosi''':''religious institutes'' The term here is in the plural since it is found more frequently in this form in Salesian documents. ''Institute'' is the more general term used in Canon Law applied to groups formed around a particular charism. Synonymous terms are ''institutes of consecrated life'', ''religious orders'', ''religious congregations'' :'''Istituto clericale''':''clerical institute'' The term is taken directly from the Code of Canon Law and indicates that the service of government of the community, in the Institute's tradition, is entrusted at all levels to a confrere who is a priest :'''Istituto di diritto pontificio''':''Institute by/of Pontifical Right'' Being an institute by pontifical right gives the society an exemption, which is not to be seen in negative terms as 'not' being responsible to the local ordinary, but in positive terms as fostering the unity of the Congregation worldwide. It also underlines our availability of service to the universal Church :'''Istituto di Scienze della Comunicazione Sociale ISCOS''':''Institute of Sciences of Social Communication '' Now raised to status of a faculty of UPS :'''istituto magistrale'':''teachers college'' :'''Istituto Ratisbonne''':''Ratisbonne Institute'' Salesian seminary and study centre in Jerusalem which used be located at Cremisan near Bethlehem. Under Israeli law it is referred to as Ratisbonne Monastery :'''Istituto religioso''':''religious institute'' Religious institutes differ from Secular institutes where profession of the gospel counsels is not lived out in community, and from Societies of Apostolic Life where though there is community, there is no bond of public vows. Cf also ''istituti religiosi'' :'''Istituto Salesiano per le Missioni''':''Salesian Missions Institute'' The juridical entity known as the ''Istituto Salesiano per le Missioni'' (Salesian Missions Institute), located at Turin-Valdocco, Via Maria Ausiliatrice no. 32, was the wish of Bl. Philip Rinaldi, 3rd Successor of Don Bosco :'''Istituto Secolare''':''Secular Institute'' Amongst the many possible forms of Religious Life in the Church, the Secular Institute is a contemporary form. Part of Consecrated Life, members of a Secular Institute profess the evangelical counsels discretely, almost in hidden fashion by contrast with the visible manner of Religious profession :'''Istituto Storico Salesiano ISS''':''Salesian Historical Institute ISS'' Founded 1981 in order to place a scientifically and technically valid study of documents of the Salesian heritage in the hands of scholars and other interested persons :'''IUS''':''IUS Salesian Institutions for Higher Education(IUS), or, IUS: Salesian Institutions for Higher Education'' IUS was an acronym until 2001 where, until then, it was the acronym for ''Istituzioni Universitarie Salesiane''. The letters have been retained, but the preferred expanded term no longer directly relates to them acronymically, at least in English, and the term is now officially stated in its English version rather than in Italian :'''istruzione''':''education'' The Italian term is almost synonymous with ''educazione'' and ''formazione'' but tends to be used to mean the acquisition of skills and here can contrast with ''educazione'' understood as gaining broad knowledge, acquiring attitudes :'''Italia-Medio Oriente Italy-MOR''':''Italy-Middle East'' A current Salesian Region :'''iter''':[LA] ''iter'' Tends to remain untranslated from Latin. If translated could be ''path (to be) followed'' :'''itinerario''':''curriculum, progress made'' Depends on context; avoid itinerary unless it is obviously that with its usual English meaning of a journey, outline :'''it non osta''':[LA] ''nihil obstat'' :'''Iuvenum Patris''':''[LA]] ''Father of the Young'' Letter of Pope John Paul II to Salesians, Salesian Family, youth, Christian educators on occasion of 1988 centenary of Don Bosco's death (:nl:)