austraLasia #2985
This most Salesian of months
ROME: 10 January 2012 -- 'That' time of the year has arrived again! I am referring, actually, to the unending list of request emails (all of which we do our best to reply to) from Salesians or Salesian Family members getting ready for the five major Salesian festivities that begin midway through January: Blessed Louis Variara (15), Blessed Laura Vicuña (22), St Francis of Sales (24), Blessed Bronislaws Markievicz (30), Don Bosco (31). Some want photos or art work, others want liturgies, novenas, still others would like any music we might have, and so on and so forth.
So I thought it might be a good idea to get in early this year, and offer a wide range of resources with direct links to them to save you searching. If you are looking for it, whatever 'it' might be, and you do not find it in these links or in associated links once you get there, then it probably does not exist!
On the other hand - and this is really quite important - you may have some material that is not discoverable here, some resource that has been built up locally and may be of interest to others. Would you be ready to send it to me so it can be made available to others? While I will be suggesting material in English here, we would be happy to have anything in any language, if you have it and we don't!
Let's begin with the two major items, the 'Feast' (24) and the Solemnity (31). For Francis of Sales, the best set of resources we have are kept on sdb.org. That link will also remind you of the fact that we do not 'own' Francis of Sales. We are part of a larger Salesian family. In addition to some smaller items, some images and the like, you will find our Salesian liturgical material for that Feast, but also resources held in a range of other 'Salesian' links from the wider family. A useful item on spiritual direction (De Sales and De Chantal) can be found in SDL.
For the Solemnity of St John Bosco, there is of course endless material. A good starting point might be an SDL link. This will give you a wide range of choices including some sheet music. We could add a recent effort by Fr Rudolf Osanger, AUS Provincial (in English) here. There are literally hundreds of images, some on the link given here but others at this link. You probably will not find better than this. In recent times, some very fine material of a study nature (in view of the Bicentenary) has been prepared by the folks at Berkeley, Don Bosco Hall SUO. You will find the October-December set of 3 from last year here. Don't overlook the work done in our own Region, for example Giraudo's contribution to the Salesianity Seminary in Thailand in 2007, kept in Bosconet. Once the Salesian Spirituality Days begin later this month there will be other material - but we can hardly provide that before it happens (even though we have it in hand at the moment). Of course, if you can manage Italian, there are two SDL collections entirely devoted to Don Bosco, one with hundreds of graphics and documents (called simply 'Don Bosco', the other with all his published works (Don Bosco - Opere edite)
Whatever we have of a liturgical nature for all our Saints and Blesseds can be found in SDL, be it official or otherwise. Anyway, take a look. If it is not there then it may not be traceable online anywhere else.
As for the others, Variara, Vicuña and Markievicz, we are a bit light on other than the liturgical material already alluded to. Any help in these areas would be appreciated, so we can build them up. There is an interesting set of actual photos of Laura, now authenticated, which demonstrate quite some difference from the 'hagiographical' set!
This most Salesian of months
So I thought it might be a good idea to get in early this year, and offer a wide range of resources with direct links to them to save you searching. If you are looking for it, whatever 'it' might be, and you do not find it in these links or in associated links once you get there, then it probably does not exist!
On the other hand - and this is really quite important - you may have some material that is not discoverable here, some resource that has been built up locally and may be of interest to others. Would you be ready to send it to me so it can be made available to others? While I will be suggesting material in English here, we would be happy to have anything in any language, if you have it and we don't!
Let's begin with the two major items, the 'Feast' (24) and the Solemnity (31). For Francis of Sales, the best set of resources we have are kept on sdb.org. That link will also remind you of the fact that we do not 'own' Francis of Sales. We are part of a larger Salesian family. In addition to some smaller items, some images and the like, you will find our Salesian liturgical material for that Feast, but also resources held in a range of other 'Salesian' links from the wider family. A useful item on spiritual direction (De Sales and De Chantal) can be found in SDL.
For the Solemnity of St John Bosco, there is of course endless material. A good starting point might be an SDL link. This will give you a wide range of choices including some sheet music. We could add a recent effort by Fr Rudolf Osanger, AUS Provincial (in English) here. There are literally hundreds of images, some on the link given here but others at this link. You probably will not find better than this. In recent times, some very fine material of a study nature (in view of the Bicentenary) has been prepared by the folks at Berkeley, Don Bosco Hall SUO. You will find the October-December set of 3 from last year here. Don't overlook the work done in our own Region, for example Giraudo's contribution to the Salesianity Seminary in Thailand in 2007, kept in Bosconet. Once the Salesian Spirituality Days begin later this month there will be other material - but we can hardly provide that before it happens (even though we have it in hand at the moment). Of course, if you can manage Italian, there are two SDL collections entirely devoted to Don Bosco, one with hundreds of graphics and documents (called simply 'Don Bosco', the other with all his published works (Don Bosco - Opere edite)
Whatever we have of a liturgical nature for all our Saints and Blesseds can be found in SDL, be it official or otherwise. Anyway, take a look. If it is not there then it may not be traceable online anywhere else.
As for the others, Variara, Vicuña and Markievicz, we are a bit light on other than the liturgical material already alluded to. Any help in these areas would be appreciated, so we can build them up. There is an interesting set of actual photos of Laura, now authenticated, which demonstrate quite some difference from the 'hagiographical' set!
