austraLasia #3475
In Finnegan's wake
DUBLIN: July 26, 2014 -- In the wake of yesterday's article put together by Fr Jack Finnegan, that is. Even if people were writing in to say there was a missing link, the article still drew wide response from around the Region and beyond. In fact, there is usually a link available, as there is today, simply by clicking the image on the left. But there is more ....
In October 2012, the same Fr Jack Finnegan led the Western Province of the USA in a day of Reflection based on the then preparatory theme for the Bicentenary: Don Bosco's Pedagogy. He entitled his effort: Don Bosco, Educator.
It makes considerable sense to read this item too, especially for the 'bigger picture'. You will discover more about the 'fire' and the 'dance' and a lot more about the mystic, prophet and servant in Don Bosco and that GC27 invited us all to take on. This was 2012, so pre-Chapter. Do read it, as either background to or a fleshing out of yesterday's item.
You have two possibilities for obtaining your own copy of this item: you could go to the sdb.org version. If you are a registered member of sdb.org and logged in as such, you could then download a zip file with both a pdf and doc copy of the article. There are two pdf copies in that zip, one with text only, the other done as the usual 'Study Guide' from Berkeley.
The other possibility, for which you need no registration, is from SDL, pdf version. If links are failing for some odd reason just go to the English Collection, Titles, and look for Don Bosco: Educator.
It is worth mentioning here that the US Western Province has done considerable work (is doing considerable work) to make valuable material in the Salesian arena digitally available. They have, for example, the Salesian Studies site, where they have begun to digitise the Journal of Salesian Studies and thus far have from 1990-2007 completed. These are nicely done. One hopes they are moving into Phase 2.
If someone from Berkeley is reading this, though, I wonder if they could check the links to the other set of resources from which the above Finnegan article came, initially - the links to the 2012 and 2103 Study Guides are not working, currently, and 2014 is presently unlinked (maybe no material as yet). However, there are work-arounds. If you go in through the Don Bosco West Site, that will take you to Study Guides 2011-12 and a bonus - the Memoirs of the Oratory. The Study Guides were previously known as the Ongoing Formation Bulletins: different name but same availability of valuable and useful material in English. You can find them from the same just quoted site or pick them all up from SDL.
Oh, and as for the real 'Finnegan's Wake', if English is not your first language (and even if it is), give James Joyce's version a miss and stick to Jack! Here's the first two paragraphs from Joyce:
"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
"Sir Tristam, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea had passencore rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselves to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick ..."
In Finnegan's wake
In October 2012, the same Fr Jack Finnegan led the Western Province of the USA in a day of Reflection based on the then preparatory theme for the Bicentenary: Don Bosco's Pedagogy. He entitled his effort: Don Bosco, Educator.
It makes considerable sense to read this item too, especially for the 'bigger picture'. You will discover more about the 'fire' and the 'dance' and a lot more about the mystic, prophet and servant in Don Bosco and that GC27 invited us all to take on. This was 2012, so pre-Chapter. Do read it, as either background to or a fleshing out of yesterday's item.
You have two possibilities for obtaining your own copy of this item: you could go to the sdb.org version. If you are a registered member of sdb.org and logged in as such, you could then download a zip file with both a pdf and doc copy of the article. There are two pdf copies in that zip, one with text only, the other done as the usual 'Study Guide' from Berkeley.
The other possibility, for which you need no registration, is from SDL, pdf version. If links are failing for some odd reason just go to the English Collection, Titles, and look for Don Bosco: Educator.
It is worth mentioning here that the US Western Province has done considerable work (is doing considerable work) to make valuable material in the Salesian arena digitally available. They have, for example, the Salesian Studies site, where they have begun to digitise the Journal of Salesian Studies and thus far have from 1990-2007 completed. These are nicely done. One hopes they are moving into Phase 2.
If someone from Berkeley is reading this, though, I wonder if they could check the links to the other set of resources from which the above Finnegan article came, initially - the links to the 2012 and 2103 Study Guides are not working, currently, and 2014 is presently unlinked (maybe no material as yet). However, there are work-arounds. If you go in through the Don Bosco West Site, that will take you to Study Guides 2011-12 and a bonus - the Memoirs of the Oratory. The Study Guides were previously known as the Ongoing Formation Bulletins: different name but same availability of valuable and useful material in English. You can find them from the same just quoted site or pick them all up from SDL.
Oh, and as for the real 'Finnegan's Wake', if English is not your first language (and even if it is), give James Joyce's version a miss and stick to Jack! Here's the first two paragraphs from Joyce:
"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
"Sir Tristam, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea had passencore rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselves to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick ..."
