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:'''sacerdote''':''priest'' :'''sacramento''':''sacrament'' :'''Sacro Cuore''':''Sacred Heart'' :'''sala della comunità''':''Parish hall'' The new concept of the parish hall (there could be a better translation) as found in the Italian term here does not exist in English. It really means a place where many things could happen 'film, video, theatre, music, tied to the role of the parish as a community of faith. Umberto Eco credits DB as having founded, in the Oratory, a concept akin to what the ''sala della comunità'' is intended to be :'''Salesiane Oblate del Sacro Cuore SOSC''':''Salesian Oblates of the Sacred Heart '' Founded in Reggio Calabria in 1933 by Bishop Cognata. Member group of the Salesian Family :'''Salesiani di Don Bosco SDB''':''Salesians of Don Bosco SDB'' :'''salesianità''':''Salesianity'' :'''salesiano''':''Salesian'' :'''Salesianum''':''Salesianum'' The Salesian Holiday House in Rome, attached to the Generalate. In fact more often used for major conventions. Other provinces use the term for a particular establishment or work (e.g. in Germany in Munich there is a Salesianum as well, but it is a work for refugee youngsters) :'''sanità sapienza e santità''':''Health, wisdom, holiness'' One of Don Bosco's linguistic devices based on three S's, which we cannot quite reproduce in English :'''salvezza''':''salvation'' The basic theme of DB's spirituality was the salvation of souls, and it is in this phrase, salvezza delle anime, rather than as a lone term, that we often find the term in early Salesian discourse. More - he would add eterna, in other words, eternal salvation. Or we find an even more complete phrase, ''alla maggior gloria di Dio e alla salvezza delle anime'' :'''san Giuseppe''':''St Joseph'' St Joseph, husband of Mary. St John Bosco chose St Joseph as one of two patrons (the other being St Francis de Sales) of the Salesian Society, while the chief Patroness was Mary Help of Christians. We do not know explicitly why he made this choice. He also saw to the establishment of the St. Joseph Sodality at the Oratory, for working boys, and in each church he built there was an altar dedicated to St Joseph. At the Oratory he celebrated the Feast on 19th March at a time when it was not listed amongst the principal feasts :'''santità''':''sanctity, holiness'' :'''Santo''':''Saint'' :'''Santo Padre''':''Holy Father'' :'''santuario''':''shrine, sanctuary'' :'''Savio, Domenico''':''Dominic Savio'' 1842-1854. The first Saint in the Salesian Family, and the youngest Saint in the Church at 15 years of age :'''scelta vocazionale''':''vocational choice'' :'''Scholasticus S.''':''Seminarian S'' Found in the Yearbook :'''scientifico''':''scientific (in a very general sense - cf comment)'' The English term means what it says - not so the Italian. scientifico may be applied to a general range of well-prepared items or discussions, not only science or scientific in nature. ''Congressi scientifici'' in the 19th century often could deal with politics rather than strictly with science :'''sciuscià''':''shoeshine boys'' In 1948 Borgo Ragazzi Don Bosco opened in Rome specifically for street children. While some of those who attended the Oratory in DB's time were of this kind, it is too facile to assume that most oratorians were street kids. In fact many had paid work. The fact that they were found on the street had more to do with a place to congregate than a state of existence :'''scritture contabili ordinarie'':''daily accounts'' (accounting) :'''scrutinium'':''[LA]] ''scrutiny'' Besides the more general use of the term there is a scrutinium paupertatis, for example, as a community exercise to review its actions of poverty. Also a review for those in initial formation - more likely termed as periodic evaluation or check-up in this latter context :'''scrutinium castitatis''':[LA] ''scrutiny on chastity'' There is no specific mention of scrutinium castitatis in the C&R. It is mentioned in the index to the Rectors Manual 1982 but not in the paragraph it refers to - at least not in the precise words :'''scrutinium orationis''':[LA] ''scrutiny on prayer'' There is no specific mention of scrutinium orationis in the C&R. It is mentioned in GC21 however, which required each community to make a periodical review of its prayer life (GC21 60b) :'''scrutinium paupertatis''':[LA] ''scrutiny on poverty'' The term finds mention in a circular letter by Fr Ricceri on poverty, and was then followed up further by Fr Viganò. The concept, rather than the precise term, is contained in R 65(:nl:)