Province of Mary Help of Christians [Australia

Don Bosco: A Priest for the Young

Feast Day: 31^st January

Your Excellency, I want you to know that Don Bosco is a priest at the altar, a priest in the confessional, a priest among his boys, a priest in Turin, and a priest in Florence. He is a priest in the house of the poor and a priest in the palace of the king.

Don Bosco: A Priest for the Young is written by Fr. Germano Baiguini SDB, Parish Priest of St. Peter and Paul parish in Gawler, South Australia.
This presentation was prepared for the Brooklyn Park – Gawler community for their recollection day that was held on 20^th December.

Salesian Strenna 2012

"I am the good shepherd: The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep" (Jn 10:11)

Year one of the three year preparation period for the bicentennial of the Don Bosco's birth focuses on our getting to know his story. We need to study him and, through the events of his life, we need to come to know him as an educator and pastor, founder, guide, legislator. It is an awareness that leads to love and imitation. This is the theme of Strenna 2012.