Salesian Family Documents
Hello, Salesian Family and Friends!
Find here documents useful to the entire Salesian Family, especially as regards the Secretariat of the Salesian Family, the Salesian Family Consulte, and the Local Commissions: what is meant by “Don Bosco’s Salesian Family” as well as documents regarding the establishment, structure, and function of the above animating bodies.
Official Salesian Family website from Rome
Salesian Family Spirituality Days & Strenne
Books on Our Salesian Family
- A Vast Network of Families: The Salesian Family of St. John Bosco
- A Family of Saints: Like the Stars in the Heavens
Books by and on St. Francis de Sales
- An Introduction to the Devout Life
- Treatise on the Love of God
- St. Francis de Sales: A Program of Integral Formation, by Don Morand Wirth, SDB
- Da Mihi Animas: Cry of the Pastoral Heart of Francis de Sales, by Fr. Joseph Boenzi, SDB
- Saint Francis de Sales (A New Biography), by Fr. André Ravier, SJ
- From Despair to Hope: One College Student’s Struggle with Truth, by Alexander T. Pocetto, OSFS
- Totum Amoris Est: Apostolic Letter of Pope Francis on St. Francis de Sales, December 28, 2022
- Talks from the UPS’ International Convention on St. Francis de Sales
Liturgical Texts
Masses in honor of the Saints and Blesseds of our Family: Salesian Missal & Lectionary
The current Ordo and Addenda et Varianda: Salesian Ordo & Addenda
The Salesian Family and Its Consulta
The Secretariat and World Advisory Council
Pope Francis' Words to and about the Salesian Family
“Like Don Bosco, with the Young and for the Young” – Official letter of the Holy Father, Pope Francis, to Reverend Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians, on the Bicentenary of the birth of St. John Bosco:
- Letter of Pope Francis to the Salesian Family 2015 FR SP IT
- Video of Pope Francis’ informal talk in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians: Facebook or YouTube
- His “unofficial” message
- Fr. Bergoglio’s 1990 recollection of his Salesian education
Official Documents of the Rectors Major
- Charter of the Charismatic Identity of the Salesian Family of Don Bosco SP FR
- The Salesian Family Yesterday and Today: The Seed Has Become a Tree and the Tree a Forest FR
- The Salesian Family is Twenty-Five Years Old
- The Salesian Rector and Animation
- The Salesian Family
- Guidelines Adopted by the Superior Council for Acceptance into the Salesian Family
- Mary Renews the Salesian Family
- Common Identity Card FR SP IT
- Common Mission Statement FR SP IT
- Outline of Strenna 2016 FR IT SP PT
- To Be Faithful, Salesian Family Is Missionary SP
- Five Fruits of the Bicentennial FR
- The Rector Major’s Letters – archive
Official Documents of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians
La Madre – Circular Letters: La Madre’s Circulars archive
Salesian Family Sector of the FMA
SDB & FMA Together
Don Ángel's Message to the Salesian Family of North America, September 8, 2018
My dear Salesian Family of the United States of America,
I greet you with great affection from Vancouver. On this occasion, we are unable to see each other. I promise you that we will have the opportunity to meet. I still, however, want to be present to you through this greeting to tell you, first of all, that it is a great gift to be Salesian Family; that you are also united in communion with all the Salesian Family of the world.
To be Salesian Family is to hold a great responsibility in the Church. We are a huge Religious Family that needs to be alive. We exist not only to think of ourselves but we are truly within this Church and this world a living force that draws near to those furthest away. We are:
- a Salesian Family with open doors, in the universality of our Groups, so that those who are in need feel that the Salesian Family always has someone who will receive, welcome, and listen to them – even if they can’t always fix all their problems.
- a Salesian Family always concerned with and sensitive to the young – boys, girls, teens, and young adults – for they are the reason that the Holy Spirit raised up Don Bosco and why he dreamed of us.
- a Salesian Family that needs to continue to grow in communion among ourselves.
- a Salesian Family that is enthusiastic and hope-filled, contemplating the world as God’s Creation and trusting always that the goodness in human hearts is much greater than the weaknesses.
I am sad that we are unable to get to know each other at this time but I promise you that we will meet each other. Now I send my embrace, my prayer, and blessing to you through the mediation of Mary Help of Christians.
With a big, affectionate hug,
Hasta siempre! Good-bye! Don Angel