austraLasia #3136
Two sets of useful resources
ROME: 25 September 2012 -- As promised, you can now access two sets of resources that may be of some value to some people during this second year of Bicentneary preparations focusing on Don Bosco's Pedagogy. One of these resources is available in English, the other in Italian.
The life of Luigi Comollo, written by Don Bosco, is now available in English translation. If you are using Firefox as your browser, you can easily add an epub reader addon and then Comollo's life is available to read online as an ebook. If you do not have the addon or you use another browser, you could still read the epub in an e-reader.
If you want a hard copy in Word you can download it from here. That URL might change over the next 24 hours since we are doing some additional work on SDL at the moment.
The Life of Young Luigi Comollo is of particular interest since it was written by the young Don Bosco in 1844, when he was just a young priest, and he chose to rewrite it in 1884 towards the end of his life, so it brackets the other three 'Lives' and may also help interpret many things about Don Bosco's pedagogical approach. The translator has tried to keep a balance between Don Bosco's style and the needs of today's reader. Hopefully he has succeeded!
The other item promised is only in Italian and not likely to find translation into English, but if the Italian texts are of some value, then feel free. They are available from donboscoland.it at the following URL The item you would be interested in is 'Educare come Don Bosco' and it is a set of resources (including three Lectio Divina pieces one of which has been prepared by Fr Frank Moloney) which focus on monthly topics to do with Don Bosco and his pedagogy, in keeping with the Strenna.
Two sets of useful resources
The life of Luigi Comollo, written by Don Bosco, is now available in English translation. If you are using Firefox as your browser, you can easily add an epub reader addon and then Comollo's life is available to read online as an ebook. If you do not have the addon or you use another browser, you could still read the epub in an e-reader.
If you want a hard copy in Word you can download it from here. That URL might change over the next 24 hours since we are doing some additional work on SDL at the moment.
The Life of Young Luigi Comollo is of particular interest since it was written by the young Don Bosco in 1844, when he was just a young priest, and he chose to rewrite it in 1884 towards the end of his life, so it brackets the other three 'Lives' and may also help interpret many things about Don Bosco's pedagogical approach. The translator has tried to keep a balance between Don Bosco's style and the needs of today's reader. Hopefully he has succeeded!
The other item promised is only in Italian and not likely to find translation into English, but if the Italian texts are of some value, then feel free. They are available from donboscoland.it at the following URL The item you would be interested in is 'Educare come Don Bosco' and it is a set of resources (including three Lectio Divina pieces one of which has been prepared by Fr Frank Moloney) which focus on monthly topics to do with Don Bosco and his pedagogy, in keeping with the Strenna.
