Rome, 10 May 1884.
My dear children in Jesus Christ: Near or far, I always think of you. One alone is my desire to be happy here and in eternity. This thought, this desire has led me to write this letter. Sorry, my dears, the weight of the distance at which I meet you, and not see them and hear no causes me pain, because they can not imagine. So I write these lines would have liked a week ago, but the continuing occupations prevented me. However, although a few days before my return, I anticipate my arrival among you, at least, through a letter, and I can not do with me. These are the words of one who loves you dearly in Jesus Christ and has a duty to speak with the freedom of a parent. You allow me to do so, is not it?. And pay attention and implement what I'm going to say.
I've said over and over that they are the only continuous thought in my mind. However, in one of the nights spent I had retired to my room and as I was about to surrender the break, I began to pray the prayers that my dear mother taught me, and at that moment, I can not sleep well if victim or out of me for some distraction, I found that appeared before me two former students of oratory.
One of them approached me and greeted me warmly, I said,
- Oh, Don Bosco! You know me?.
- Yes, I know - I answered.
- And still remember me? - Added.
- from yourself and others. You are Valfré and were in the chapel before 1870.
- Say - the man continued -, do you want to see young people who were at the Oratory in my time?
- Yes, just let me see - I said -, that gave me great joy. Then
Valfré showed me all the boys with the same face and with the same age and height at that time. I seemed to be in the old chapel in recess. It was a scene full of life, movement and joy. Who ran, who jumped, who did jump to the other, who was playing. In one room was gathered a group of outstanding young men from the lips of a priest who told them a story. Elsewhere there was a cleric with another group playing. They sang, laughed everywhere, and everywhere priests and clergymen, and around them, kids who rattled merrily. Between youth and reigned over the greatest cordiality and confidence. I was delighted to see this show and Valfré said:
- See, familiarity breeds affection, affection and trust. This is what opens the heart and what teens and express everything without fear, teachers, assistants and superiors. Are sincere confession and beyond, and lend themselves easily to everything they want to send those who know you love them. Meanwhile
approached me another former student who was completely white beard and said:
- Don Bosco, will you now see young people who are currently at the Oratory?.
This was Joseph Buzzetti.
- Yes - I said -, because a month ago I have not seen.
And to me said: I saw the chapel and all of you who were in recess. But not heard and shouts of joy and songs, did not contemplate that movement, that life he had seen in the first scene. In the gestures
and in the faces of some young people felt a sadness, a lack of appetite, a dislike, distrust that caused great pain to my heart. Vi, is true, many running, playing, moving with joyous abandon, but others, and were large enough, they were alone, supported by columns, dams discouraging thoughts, others were on the stairs and in corridors or on the banks overlooking the garden wall, not to take part in the common recreation, while others walked slowly, in groups and talking quietly among themselves, throwing both sides suspicious and malicious eyes, others smiled, but with a smile accompanied by gestures that were suspect, even among those who played, had some so listless, that suggested clearly that they did not find any pleasure in the playground.
- Have you seen their young? - He said that former student.
- Yes I see - I said sighing.
- How different than it was us! - Exclaimed.
- Mucho! What unwillingness in this playground!.
- And here comes the cold for many to approach the sacraments, the neglect of the practices of piety in the church and elsewhere, reluctantly being in this place, where the Divine Providence fills all good physical, spiritual and intellectual. From here, the not correspond many a vocation, hence, ingratitude towards the top, hence, the secrets and gossip with all the other dire consequences.
- I understand - I answered - but how to encourage these young people to live the old joy and expansion?.
- With love.
- With the love?. But is that my kids are not pretty ones?. You know how much I love. You know how I suffered for them and how I tolerated over forty years, and how I tolerate and suffer today. Many jobs, many humiliations, many obstacles, many persecutions for proportional bread, shelter, teachers and especially to seek the salvation of their souls. I've done everything I could and learned from them, they are the love of my life.
- I'm not talking to you.
- Who are you talking about, then? Does that make my time? Do the directors, prefects, teachers, the assistants? Can not you see that they are martyrs of study and work? How can consume years of his youth in favor of them, which are a legacy of Providence?.
- I see and I know, but that is not enough. Lack the most important.
- What is missing then?.
- that young people are not only loved, but that they realize they are loved.
- But do not have eyes in the face? Do not have light in intelligence? Can not you see that is done for them, is done for love?.
- No, I repeat, is not enough.
- What is required then?.
- Who, being loved in the things they like you, to participate in their children's inclinations, learn to love too see those little things they like, such as: discipline, study, self-mortification, and learn to act with generosity and love.
- Explain better.
- Note to young people in the playground.
I did what you said and cried.
- What particular?.
- So many years ago that is dedicated to education youth and does not understand?. Look better. Where are our Salesian?.
I looked and saw that there were very few priests and clerics who were mixed among young people and were much less those who took part in their games. The superiors were no longer the soul of the recess. Most of them walking, talking among themselves, without worrying about what students did, while others played, but without thinking in young people, while others guarded to good, but without noticing the faults that were committed, the odd corrected the offenders, but with threats and this rarely. There was a Salesian who wished to enter into a group of young, but I saw that the boys were seeking to move away from their teachers and superiors.
Then my friend told me
- In the early days of the oratorio, "you were not always among the young, especially at recess? Remember those wonderful years? It was a joy of paradise, a time that we always remember with emotion, because love rules everything and we had no secrets to Don Bosco.
- Right! Then everything was a joy to my youth and stubbornness were to move closer to me, talk, and there was a real anxiety for listening to my advice and put them into practice. Now, however, continued hearings, my busy schedule and poor health prevents me.
- Fine, fine, but if you can not, why not become his Salesians imitators? Why not insist, does not require them to treat young people as you tried?.
- and insist I speak to tired, but many are determined to take the job that requires education.
"And so, neglecting the very least, lose the most and this" more "is the fruit of his labors. Who love what they like young people, and young love that is like the above. In this way the work will be very tolerable. The cause of this change of the Oratory is that a good number of young people are confidence in their superiors. Formerly, all hearts were open to the top, so that young people loved and obeyed promptly. But now above are considered solely, as such, rather, as parents, siblings and friends; thus is most feared to beloved. So if you want to be one heart and one soul, for Jesus' sake, be fatal to break that barrier of mistrust, which is to be supplanted by more cordial confidence. Ie, that obedience is to guide students like your child thrive, then reign in the oratory of peace and the old joy.
- How, then, to break that barrier?.
- Familiarity with young people, especially at recess. Without familiarity can not show affection, and without this demonstration can not be trusted. He who wants to be loved, it is necessary to show that love. Jesus Christ became small with small and bore our diseases. Behold the Master of the family!
"Master which is only seen in the chair, it's only teacher and nothing more, but if you participate in recreational youth also becomes a brother."
"If one is seen in the pulpit preaching, they say that does his duty, but if he is seen saying on the playground a good word, we must recognize that the word comes from a person you love."
"How many conversions were not the effect of any of the words he spoke suddenly a young man's ear while having fun! He who knows he is loved, loves and is loved get it all, especially young people. This trust provides an electric current between young and higher. Hearts are opened, make known their needs and express its defects. This love makes the upper can withstand the hardships, the disappointments, the ingratitude, the lack of discipline, frivolities, neglect of youth. Jesus did not break the cane and rattan, nor quench the smoldering wick. Here's your model. Then no one will work for pride, or who punished to avenge his pride hurt, or who withdraws from the field of assistance to a feared preponderance zeal of others, or who gossip of others to be loved and esteemed by the youth to the exclusion of all other higher when in fact they will not reap nothing but contempt and hypocritical flattery, and who let them steal the heart of a creature and in entertaining it neglected all the other youngsters, or who, for the sake of their own comfort, jeopardize the duty of assistance, or who by false human respect, not to admonish those who need to be cautioned. If there is this love cash, otherwise we shall not seek the glory of God and the good of souls. When this love is languishing when things go wrong. Why charity is intended to replace the chill of a regulation? Why set aside over the observance of those rules of education that they gave Don Bosco? For the system to prevent, monitor and correct disorders lovingly, you will want to replace that other easier and more comfortable for the boss, to enact the law and enforce it, by the punishments that carry hate and dislikes light, if observing them is neglected, cause of contempt for the senior and most serious disorders. And this is necessarily the case if there is no familiarity. If, therefore, it is desired that the oratorio reign of former happiness, we must give effect to the old system: the upper is for everyone, always willing to listen to any doubt or regret for young people, all eyes for paternal monitoring their behavior, all heart to seek the spiritual good of their junior and temporal welfare of those whom Providence has entrusted to your care. "
" Then the heart will not stay closed and not hide things that cause the death of souls. Only in the case of immorality, are the top inflexible. It is better to run the danger away from home to an innocent person to stay in it a scandal. Attendees will consider as a grave obligation of conscience refer to the above all created things that may constitute an offense against God. "
Then I asked:
- And what is the primary means to succeed such familiarity and that love and trust?.
- The exact observation of the Rules of the house.
- Is that all?.
- The best dish at a meal is a good face. As my former student
finished speaking these words, I kept watching with real disgust recess and, little by little, I felt oppressed by a great weariness grew. This oppression reached such a point that can not resist, I shuddered, then waking up. I found
Standing beside my bed. My legs were so swollen and hurt so much, I could not stand. It was late, so I went to bed, decided to write these lines to my dear children.
I wish not to have these dreams, because I produce a great exhaustion.
The next day, he still felt pain in my bones and I could not wait to rest. But here, at evening, I was just in bed, I began to dream again.
had before my eyes the yard occupied by young people who are currently in the Oratory, next to me, the same former student.
I then began to ask:
- What I've said is I will let my Salesians, but what I tell young people the Oratory?.
- To recognize the work they are imposed over the teachers and assistants for their sakes, for styling if not for their sake, not be imposed so many sacrifices to remember that humility is the source of all tranquility that know bear the faults of others, because perfection is not in this world, but only in Paradise, to stop gossip, gossip cools as hearts, and above all, to seek to live in the grace of God. Who does not live in peace with God, can not have peace with himself and with others.
- You told me then that is between my young who are not at peace with God?.
- This is, among other things, the first cause of the prevailing unrest, which must be remedied and that I need not mention it. Indeed, only distrust those who have secrets to hide, who fear that these secrets are discovered, he knows which, if shown, derive from them a great shame and not a few mishaps. At the same time, if the heart is not at peace with God, living anxious, restless, rebellious to all obedience, irritated by anything, he believes that everything is going wrong, and as he does not love does not judge that higher love.
- Well, however, can not you see, my dear, the frequency of existing denominations and communions in the chapel?.
- It is true that the frequency of confessions is great, but what is lacking in many young people all who confess, is the stability or firmness of purpose. He confesses, but always the same errors, the same proximate occasions of the same bad habits, the same disobedience, the same negligence in the performance of duties. So go ahead for months and years, and some up to the end of the studies. Such confessions are worth little or nothing, so do not provide peace, and if a young man in such a state was called before the tribunal of God, would be in a bind.
- And of these there are many in the chapel?.
- Regarding with the large number of young people in the house, fortunately they are few. Look.
And in saying this I pointed them out.
I watched them one by one. But in those few, I saw things that my heart greatly embittered. I do not want to express in writing, but back when they are communicate to each stakeholder. Now I will say only that it is time to pray and to take firm decisions, to meet not in word but in deed and to demonstrate that Comollo, the Dominic Savio, the Bessucco and Saccardi, still live among us.
Finally I asked one friend:
- Got something to say?.
- preaches to everyone, young and old, to remember where are the children of Mary Help of Christians. She has gathered here to deliver them from the dangers of the world to love one another as brothers and give glory to God as She and her good behavior, which is the Virgin who provides bread and all they need to study infinite working wonders and giving countless graces. Remember that they are on the eve of the feast of the Blessed Mother and with his help you must drop the barrier of mistrust that the devil has managed to raise young people and their superiors, and which knows how to use for ruin of souls.
- And get down that barrier?.
- Yes, indeed, provided adults and children are willing to suffer a mortification for the sake of Mary and implement what I have said.
Meanwhile, I continued to watch the youngsters, and the sight of those who saw their aim to eternal damnation, I felt such anguish in my heart that I woke up.
I tell many important things that I saw in this dream, but time and circumstances do not permit me.
conclude: You know what they want from you this poor old man, who has spent his life searching for the good of their young ones?. Just
which saved in due proportion, flourish the happy days of the old chapel. The days of love and trust Christian young people and their superiors, the days of the spirit of mutual tolerance condescension and love for Jesus Christ, the days of open hearts to the simplicity and candor, the days of love and true happiness for all. I need to be comforted by the hope reborn in me and promising to do everything I wish for the good of our souls. You can not appreciate how lucky they are to be in the chapel. I assure you, before God, it is sufficient that a young man enters a Salesian House, that the Blessed Virgin will take under his celestial protection. Let us, therefore, all agreed. Charity of the rulers, the love of those who must obey, then reign among us the spirit of St. Francis de Sales. Oh, my dear children! It is about time that I must separate myself from you and for eternity.
(Note by the Secretary: to get here, let's give Don Bosco, his eyes filled with tears, not because of disgust, but by the ineffable tenderness that was reflected in his face and in his words a few seconds then continued) .
So my greatest wish, my dear priests, clerics and youth is designed to leave the path that the Lord would continue.
To this end, the Holy Father, whom I have seen on Friday, May 8, sends his blessing wholeheartedly. Mary Day Help me find in the company of all of you before the image of our most beloved Mother. I hope that your holiday is celebrated with solemnity and joy. The feast of Mary Help of Christians should be the prelude to the eternal feast that we celebrate together one day in paradise.
Yours in Christ.
Juan Bosco.
My dear children in Jesus Christ: Near or far, I always think of you. One alone is my desire to be happy here and in eternity. This thought, this desire has led me to write this letter. Sorry, my dears, the weight of the distance at which I meet you, and not see them and hear no causes me pain, because they can not imagine. So I write these lines would have liked a week ago, but the continuing occupations prevented me. However, although a few days before my return, I anticipate my arrival among you, at least, through a letter, and I can not do with me. These are the words of one who loves you dearly in Jesus Christ and has a duty to speak with the freedom of a parent. You allow me to do so, is not it?. And pay attention and implement what I'm going to say.
I've said over and over that they are the only continuous thought in my mind. However, in one of the nights spent I had retired to my room and as I was about to surrender the break, I began to pray the prayers that my dear mother taught me, and at that moment, I can not sleep well if victim or out of me for some distraction, I found that appeared before me two former students of oratory.
One of them approached me and greeted me warmly, I said,
- Oh, Don Bosco! You know me?.
- Yes, I know - I answered.
- And still remember me? - Added.
- from yourself and others. You are Valfré and were in the chapel before 1870.
- Say - the man continued -, do you want to see young people who were at the Oratory in my time?
- Yes, just let me see - I said -, that gave me great joy. Then
Valfré showed me all the boys with the same face and with the same age and height at that time. I seemed to be in the old chapel in recess. It was a scene full of life, movement and joy. Who ran, who jumped, who did jump to the other, who was playing. In one room was gathered a group of outstanding young men from the lips of a priest who told them a story. Elsewhere there was a cleric with another group playing. They sang, laughed everywhere, and everywhere priests and clergymen, and around them, kids who rattled merrily. Between youth and reigned over the greatest cordiality and confidence. I was delighted to see this show and Valfré said:
- See, familiarity breeds affection, affection and trust. This is what opens the heart and what teens and express everything without fear, teachers, assistants and superiors. Are sincere confession and beyond, and lend themselves easily to everything they want to send those who know you love them. Meanwhile
approached me another former student who was completely white beard and said:
- Don Bosco, will you now see young people who are currently at the Oratory?.
This was Joseph Buzzetti.
- Yes - I said -, because a month ago I have not seen.
And to me said: I saw the chapel and all of you who were in recess. But not heard and shouts of joy and songs, did not contemplate that movement, that life he had seen in the first scene. In the gestures
and in the faces of some young people felt a sadness, a lack of appetite, a dislike, distrust that caused great pain to my heart. Vi, is true, many running, playing, moving with joyous abandon, but others, and were large enough, they were alone, supported by columns, dams discouraging thoughts, others were on the stairs and in corridors or on the banks overlooking the garden wall, not to take part in the common recreation, while others walked slowly, in groups and talking quietly among themselves, throwing both sides suspicious and malicious eyes, others smiled, but with a smile accompanied by gestures that were suspect, even among those who played, had some so listless, that suggested clearly that they did not find any pleasure in the playground.
- Have you seen their young? - He said that former student.
- Yes I see - I said sighing.
- How different than it was us! - Exclaimed.
- Mucho! What unwillingness in this playground!.
- And here comes the cold for many to approach the sacraments, the neglect of the practices of piety in the church and elsewhere, reluctantly being in this place, where the Divine Providence fills all good physical, spiritual and intellectual. From here, the not correspond many a vocation, hence, ingratitude towards the top, hence, the secrets and gossip with all the other dire consequences.
- I understand - I answered - but how to encourage these young people to live the old joy and expansion?.
- With love.
- With the love?. But is that my kids are not pretty ones?. You know how much I love. You know how I suffered for them and how I tolerated over forty years, and how I tolerate and suffer today. Many jobs, many humiliations, many obstacles, many persecutions for proportional bread, shelter, teachers and especially to seek the salvation of their souls. I've done everything I could and learned from them, they are the love of my life.
- I'm not talking to you.
- Who are you talking about, then? Does that make my time? Do the directors, prefects, teachers, the assistants? Can not you see that they are martyrs of study and work? How can consume years of his youth in favor of them, which are a legacy of Providence?.
- I see and I know, but that is not enough. Lack the most important.
- What is missing then?.
- that young people are not only loved, but that they realize they are loved.
- But do not have eyes in the face? Do not have light in intelligence? Can not you see that is done for them, is done for love?.
- No, I repeat, is not enough.
- What is required then?.
- Who, being loved in the things they like you, to participate in their children's inclinations, learn to love too see those little things they like, such as: discipline, study, self-mortification, and learn to act with generosity and love.
- Explain better.
- Note to young people in the playground.
I did what you said and cried.
- What particular?.
- So many years ago that is dedicated to education youth and does not understand?. Look better. Where are our Salesian?.
I looked and saw that there were very few priests and clerics who were mixed among young people and were much less those who took part in their games. The superiors were no longer the soul of the recess. Most of them walking, talking among themselves, without worrying about what students did, while others played, but without thinking in young people, while others guarded to good, but without noticing the faults that were committed, the odd corrected the offenders, but with threats and this rarely. There was a Salesian who wished to enter into a group of young, but I saw that the boys were seeking to move away from their teachers and superiors.
Then my friend told me
- In the early days of the oratorio, "you were not always among the young, especially at recess? Remember those wonderful years? It was a joy of paradise, a time that we always remember with emotion, because love rules everything and we had no secrets to Don Bosco.
- Right! Then everything was a joy to my youth and stubbornness were to move closer to me, talk, and there was a real anxiety for listening to my advice and put them into practice. Now, however, continued hearings, my busy schedule and poor health prevents me.
- Fine, fine, but if you can not, why not become his Salesians imitators? Why not insist, does not require them to treat young people as you tried?.
- and insist I speak to tired, but many are determined to take the job that requires education.
"And so, neglecting the very least, lose the most and this" more "is the fruit of his labors. Who love what they like young people, and young love that is like the above. In this way the work will be very tolerable. The cause of this change of the Oratory is that a good number of young people are confidence in their superiors. Formerly, all hearts were open to the top, so that young people loved and obeyed promptly. But now above are considered solely, as such, rather, as parents, siblings and friends; thus is most feared to beloved. So if you want to be one heart and one soul, for Jesus' sake, be fatal to break that barrier of mistrust, which is to be supplanted by more cordial confidence. Ie, that obedience is to guide students like your child thrive, then reign in the oratory of peace and the old joy.
- How, then, to break that barrier?.
- Familiarity with young people, especially at recess. Without familiarity can not show affection, and without this demonstration can not be trusted. He who wants to be loved, it is necessary to show that love. Jesus Christ became small with small and bore our diseases. Behold the Master of the family!
"Master which is only seen in the chair, it's only teacher and nothing more, but if you participate in recreational youth also becomes a brother."
"If one is seen in the pulpit preaching, they say that does his duty, but if he is seen saying on the playground a good word, we must recognize that the word comes from a person you love."
"How many conversions were not the effect of any of the words he spoke suddenly a young man's ear while having fun! He who knows he is loved, loves and is loved get it all, especially young people. This trust provides an electric current between young and higher. Hearts are opened, make known their needs and express its defects. This love makes the upper can withstand the hardships, the disappointments, the ingratitude, the lack of discipline, frivolities, neglect of youth. Jesus did not break the cane and rattan, nor quench the smoldering wick. Here's your model. Then no one will work for pride, or who punished to avenge his pride hurt, or who withdraws from the field of assistance to a feared preponderance zeal of others, or who gossip of others to be loved and esteemed by the youth to the exclusion of all other higher when in fact they will not reap nothing but contempt and hypocritical flattery, and who let them steal the heart of a creature and in entertaining it neglected all the other youngsters, or who, for the sake of their own comfort, jeopardize the duty of assistance, or who by false human respect, not to admonish those who need to be cautioned. If there is this love cash, otherwise we shall not seek the glory of God and the good of souls. When this love is languishing when things go wrong. Why charity is intended to replace the chill of a regulation? Why set aside over the observance of those rules of education that they gave Don Bosco? For the system to prevent, monitor and correct disorders lovingly, you will want to replace that other easier and more comfortable for the boss, to enact the law and enforce it, by the punishments that carry hate and dislikes light, if observing them is neglected, cause of contempt for the senior and most serious disorders. And this is necessarily the case if there is no familiarity. If, therefore, it is desired that the oratorio reign of former happiness, we must give effect to the old system: the upper is for everyone, always willing to listen to any doubt or regret for young people, all eyes for paternal monitoring their behavior, all heart to seek the spiritual good of their junior and temporal welfare of those whom Providence has entrusted to your care. "
" Then the heart will not stay closed and not hide things that cause the death of souls. Only in the case of immorality, are the top inflexible. It is better to run the danger away from home to an innocent person to stay in it a scandal. Attendees will consider as a grave obligation of conscience refer to the above all created things that may constitute an offense against God. "
Then I asked:
- And what is the primary means to succeed such familiarity and that love and trust?.
- The exact observation of the Rules of the house.
- Is that all?.
- The best dish at a meal is a good face. As my former student
finished speaking these words, I kept watching with real disgust recess and, little by little, I felt oppressed by a great weariness grew. This oppression reached such a point that can not resist, I shuddered, then waking up. I found
Standing beside my bed. My legs were so swollen and hurt so much, I could not stand. It was late, so I went to bed, decided to write these lines to my dear children.
I wish not to have these dreams, because I produce a great exhaustion.
The next day, he still felt pain in my bones and I could not wait to rest. But here, at evening, I was just in bed, I began to dream again.
had before my eyes the yard occupied by young people who are currently in the Oratory, next to me, the same former student.
I then began to ask:
- What I've said is I will let my Salesians, but what I tell young people the Oratory?.
- To recognize the work they are imposed over the teachers and assistants for their sakes, for styling if not for their sake, not be imposed so many sacrifices to remember that humility is the source of all tranquility that know bear the faults of others, because perfection is not in this world, but only in Paradise, to stop gossip, gossip cools as hearts, and above all, to seek to live in the grace of God. Who does not live in peace with God, can not have peace with himself and with others.
- You told me then that is between my young who are not at peace with God?.
- This is, among other things, the first cause of the prevailing unrest, which must be remedied and that I need not mention it. Indeed, only distrust those who have secrets to hide, who fear that these secrets are discovered, he knows which, if shown, derive from them a great shame and not a few mishaps. At the same time, if the heart is not at peace with God, living anxious, restless, rebellious to all obedience, irritated by anything, he believes that everything is going wrong, and as he does not love does not judge that higher love.
- Well, however, can not you see, my dear, the frequency of existing denominations and communions in the chapel?.
- It is true that the frequency of confessions is great, but what is lacking in many young people all who confess, is the stability or firmness of purpose. He confesses, but always the same errors, the same proximate occasions of the same bad habits, the same disobedience, the same negligence in the performance of duties. So go ahead for months and years, and some up to the end of the studies. Such confessions are worth little or nothing, so do not provide peace, and if a young man in such a state was called before the tribunal of God, would be in a bind.
- And of these there are many in the chapel?.
- Regarding with the large number of young people in the house, fortunately they are few. Look.
And in saying this I pointed them out.
I watched them one by one. But in those few, I saw things that my heart greatly embittered. I do not want to express in writing, but back when they are communicate to each stakeholder. Now I will say only that it is time to pray and to take firm decisions, to meet not in word but in deed and to demonstrate that Comollo, the Dominic Savio, the Bessucco and Saccardi, still live among us.
Finally I asked one friend:
- Got something to say?.
- preaches to everyone, young and old, to remember where are the children of Mary Help of Christians. She has gathered here to deliver them from the dangers of the world to love one another as brothers and give glory to God as She and her good behavior, which is the Virgin who provides bread and all they need to study infinite working wonders and giving countless graces. Remember that they are on the eve of the feast of the Blessed Mother and with his help you must drop the barrier of mistrust that the devil has managed to raise young people and their superiors, and which knows how to use for ruin of souls.
- And get down that barrier?.
- Yes, indeed, provided adults and children are willing to suffer a mortification for the sake of Mary and implement what I have said.
Meanwhile, I continued to watch the youngsters, and the sight of those who saw their aim to eternal damnation, I felt such anguish in my heart that I woke up.
I tell many important things that I saw in this dream, but time and circumstances do not permit me.
conclude: You know what they want from you this poor old man, who has spent his life searching for the good of their young ones?. Just
which saved in due proportion, flourish the happy days of the old chapel. The days of love and trust Christian young people and their superiors, the days of the spirit of mutual tolerance condescension and love for Jesus Christ, the days of open hearts to the simplicity and candor, the days of love and true happiness for all. I need to be comforted by the hope reborn in me and promising to do everything I wish for the good of our souls. You can not appreciate how lucky they are to be in the chapel. I assure you, before God, it is sufficient that a young man enters a Salesian House, that the Blessed Virgin will take under his celestial protection. Let us, therefore, all agreed. Charity of the rulers, the love of those who must obey, then reign among us the spirit of St. Francis de Sales. Oh, my dear children! It is about time that I must separate myself from you and for eternity.
(Note by the Secretary: to get here, let's give Don Bosco, his eyes filled with tears, not because of disgust, but by the ineffable tenderness that was reflected in his face and in his words a few seconds then continued) .
So my greatest wish, my dear priests, clerics and youth is designed to leave the path that the Lord would continue.
To this end, the Holy Father, whom I have seen on Friday, May 8, sends his blessing wholeheartedly. Mary Day Help me find in the company of all of you before the image of our most beloved Mother. I hope that your holiday is celebrated with solemnity and joy. The feast of Mary Help of Christians should be the prelude to the eternal feast that we celebrate together one day in paradise.
Yours in Christ.
Juan Bosco.
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