Collection 1
PILGRIMAGE TO PIEDMONT "Nobody said anything about me!"
COMPUTER NETWORK AT GC26 "And you're also heading off to the computer clinic?"
RETREAT "Oh God, let me know your will" "But I sent you a Power Point early this morning!"
RETREAT "What on earth happened?" "I was just trying to repeat the charismatic explosion of 8th december 1843!"
PREDILECTION FOR THE LITTLE ONES St Francis of Asissi "Do you know how to whistle?"
PREDILECTION FOR THE LITTLE ONES Don Bosco "Do you know how to whistle?"
PREDILECTION FOR THE LITTLE ONES "Do you know how to whistle?
COAT OF ARMS suggested for Bishop Tarcisio Scaramussa by the SC Department
"Dear confrere, you are the privileged object of my agape"!
DA MIHI ANIMAS "If someone would like to demonstrate his love, I'm ready"
SPORT DURING THE CHAPTER "You're not playing sport?" "My Guardian Angel doesn't recommend it!"
YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD "I'd like to be a light for the young" "In my view the power's turned off!"
THE EXPERIENCE "Don't forget that after GC26 there will be GC27" "You're a real prophet!"
GC26 "Hey kiddo, you know that Dominic Savio became a Saint when he was 15?" "But I don't wanna die!"
RETURN TO DON BOSCO "But who said that to return to Don Bosco we had to eat polenta?"
STARTING AFRESH FROM DON BOSCO "My idea is to illustrate the Constitutions" "That's great - the confreres will read them more willingly!"
ONGOING FORMATION "There goes an 'illiterate' confrère" "Oh I thought he might be a bishop!"
SALESIANS AROUND THE WORLD "Today, Friday, I won't be working out of respect for Moslems. Tomorrow, Saturday, I won't be working out of respect for the Jews. Sunday, because I'm a Christian, I never work!.... Then, I'll take my rest in Paradise"
CARDIAC OPERATING THEATRE "What are you doing?" "I'm operating on the Salesian oratorian heart"
"I also want a part in renewing the Salesian Congregation"
MULTICULTURAL EXPERIENCE (India) "I'm looking for glasses for my third eye"
TRIP TO FLORENCE "This Florence excursion was a great experience of family spirit" "I've got a proposal - let's work Saturdays and Sundays and go on trips from Monday to Friday!"
STARTING AFRESH FROM DON BOSCO "I've returned to Don Bosco....He gave me a kickstart!"
GC26 "This GC26 is a lucky break for us" "Yes, at least we can get out of the house"
GC26 THE FAMOUS SIMPLE CONFRÈRE
GC26 "How are we supposed to go about making a spoken intervention in writing?"
BROTHERS: NOT SUPERIORS "There will be a consolation photo for the Brothers"
GC26 - LOVING-KINDNESS "How do I get my Salesian heart moving?" "You can either be kissed by God or get a pacemaker"
GC26 GUIDELINES "I'm proposing that GC26 bring some confrères together in an experimental community that puts all these guidelines into practice". "Yes! But with strong psychological support and health care!"
"How is one supposed to offer a word in the ear to this kid!"
"We're starting afresh from Don Bosco with Don Rua"
NEED FOR VOCATION MINISTRY "OK kids, number 53 has just won a year in the Salesian novitiate"
"The Liturgical commission is looking for a donkey for Palm Sunday..... could you, dear confrère, give a hand?"
"Then don't forget that the OPP is responsible for the EPC according to the SPEP...!"
"You know we've got lots of bishops in the Congregation" "...and lots of Brothers too!"
PALM SUNDAY "Why are you crying?" "They've replaced me with a Popemobile!"
"Is your name Mr. So-and-So or Mr. Somebody else?" "No, I'm Mr Nobody!"
THE GOOD SHEPHERD 1. heart to feel 2. eyes to see 3. ears to hear 4. hands to give and receive 5. mouth to speak 6. feet to walk amongst 7. backside to sit on so we can be with
"My vocation is diagonal" "And mine is transversal!" (The reference is to a typo where 'diaconal' came out as 'diagonal')
VOCATION MINISTRY "I wanna play with the GC26 voting machine!" "ok kid but first you have to do your novitiate"
"Finally - we get round to discussing our witness to poverty!"
""We must return to the young (giovani)" "We must return to Don Bosco" "Then I suggest we start from Giovan(n)i Bosco!"
THE NEED(URGENCY) TO EVANGELISE "I heard there was a fire somewhere" "No it's ok we were just talking about 'setting fire to...'!"
NEED FOR VOCATION MINISTRY "Did your feet get called up for washing?" (Holy Thursday)
THE NEED (URGENCY) TO EVANGELISE "I'm thirsty" "Well then, we've got book of ways to build a well, or another on rain-making ceremonies, accompaniment by experts for....or...."
ELECTIONS "I know how I went in.... but look how I've come out!"
DISCERNMENT "Don Bosco told me to put Grigio in the midst of you all and he will select his master!"
DISCERNMENT "I was gossiping" "Yes well that was what was indicated you had to do during discernment" "Yes, but it was after the elections!"
DISCERNMENT "What one earth happened to you?" "The lot fell upon me" "And then?" "And then I got hurt!"
PROFESSIONALISM "The Economer too confirms that there are three persons in the Trinity" "Really! You can see he's got a degree in theology!" [based on discussion of how professional the elected memebrs of the COuncil should be.... but they don't have to be theologians!]
DISCERNMENT "I've brough this old crone along to help out with the courtyard Chapter!"
DISCERNMENT "Why did they vote for you?" "Becuase I had no more money to get home with!"
"When I was a boy I read the life of St John Bosco. Then I met a simple Salesian. I told him: 'I'm the material, you're the tailor'. Look at his masterpiece! He made a few mistakes, right? These mistakes became a Salesian. Witness of consecrated life. Witness of fragility. Witness of humility, but also joy and the primacy of God. Well then, my dear GC26 confrères, out of honour and fidelity to the Rector Major take out your scissors, start again radically from Don Bosco and ready the confrères entrusted to you for a journey of holiness which will make them available to the youth of our world". -----
VOTING "He's dumb, and what's more when he votes he votes blank"
YOUTH MINISTRY "And here, folks, is the new Youth Ministry Delegate!"
VOTING "I made a mistake. I put my glasses in the ballot box!"
I ACCEPT "One needs to be a great person to accept small things".
PHOTOS "There are still some smile available in the secretariate"
PAPAL AUDIENCE "Why didn't you bring Bagatelle with you today to the Papal audience?" "I couldn't find a Roman collar for her!" Reference is to Papi,the clown's puppet, Bagatelle
RADIO "I met my wife on teh radio and she hasnpt stooped talking - even at night time!"
EVANGELICAL POVERTY "Have you bought a poverty meter?" "No, too expensive!"
"I don't agree with 'breaking the egg'! "
"This Chapter has given birth to ..... a mouse!"
"For the protest in the piazza - everyone in their birthday suit" "But can I keep my Roman collar?"
"It's going to take more than 6 years to put all these guidelines into practice" "That's why I'm proposing that the provincial stays in office eight years and there's a General Chapter every twelve!"
VOCATION MINISTRY "We are looking for people who are young, degreed, qualified, intelligent, well educated, available, generous.... to be simple religious"
THE LOCAL BURSAR "We are too poor to manage our poverty, so you are put in charge of this task!"
FINAL DOCUMENT Help!
END OF CHAPTER IN SIGHT "We'll be voting this iuxta modum on Sunday"
VAGRANTS "No boundaries, no fixed community!"
"What happened?" "I broke my thumb voting at the GC26"
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