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 ..."
