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terms marked with ^† are often without further comment. They come from the experience of people who have translated large tracts of Salesian literature, e.g. Fr Borgatelli’s translation of the Memorie Biografiche. In other words most of these terms are dated ones, found only or mainly in older Salesian texts. To view terms in context, click on the text indicator below the term (not all terms have one as yet). Use the 'find' facility in Notepad or other to find the precise location of the term in context Return to Finding Your Way
facoltà RFcap03..txt - I centri superiori di studio, come accademie o facoltà di teologia, di filosofia e di	IT	school (Uni)	EN-EN	cf. the entry under scuola
famiglia PGmanCapitolo 3.txt - Salesiana è la comunità. Una comunità che coinvolge, in clima di famiglia, giovani e adulti,	IT	family 家庭	EN-EN ZH	One Salesian reference is to the Salesian Family, but the other, more basic reference is to family spirit, especially that which had its historical origins in Valdocco with Mamma Margaret
Famiglia Salesiana Rfcap06.txt - collaborazione con i laici e con altri membri della Famiglia Salesiana.	IT	Salesian Family 慈幼大家庭	EN-EN ZH	Applied in different ways to different groups according to degree of adherence.	Return to Index
Famiglia spirituale 358vecchi.txt - ad alcune Congregazioni, ma ad una Famiglia spirituale, in cui sono da aspettarsi sempre nuove nascite e nuove Return to top	IT	Spiritual Family	EN-EN	The term is wider than that of Salesian Family. It refers to that vastness of pastoral charity in Don Bosco that wished to link and even aggregate (a technical term of his) people to his service for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. cf.also congregati. The universal Church refers to the 'families' which arise from a charism as spiritual families of the Founder.	When Don Bosco was founding his work, he began by founding the Cooperators )not called by that name at the time and the Society of St Francis de Sales, both of which were really, in his thinking the Work of the Oratory, a single entity, then. When it came to the foundation of the FMA he saw this as aggregating or incorporating that Institute to/in his own.
famigliarità Dbcastig.txt - trattare i peccatori con una dimestichezza e famigliarità da produrre in alcuni lo stupore, in altri quasi lo	IT	familiarity 親切	EN-EN ZH	In Italian there are two spellings, the older one listed here is that used by Don Bosco.	In modern Italian we find ‘familiarità.’ DB saw the word in both positive and negative terms. He would not have agreed with ‘familiarity breeds contempt,’ though he would have seen it as a danger to be avoided
fanciullo 328vigano.txt - La sua vocazione sacerdotale ebbe sempre come stella polare, fin da fanciullo, la Madonna, e la sua efficacia	IT	youngster 兒童	EN-EN ZH	8-11 years of age
^†far professare	IT	^†admit to vows/profession	EN-EN
fatevi amare 326vigano.txt - «Fatevi amare», ci ripete Don Bosco	IT	make yourself loved	EN-EN	Don Bosco's classic phrase and recommendation to his Salesians.
fattura	IT	invoice 發票	EN-EN ZH	Accounting terminology
favorire	IT	foster, on behalf of 助長	EN-EN ZH	Avoid to favour
fede cristiana Return to top Dbmosf.txt - Da quel giorno cominciò ad essere affezionato alla fede cristiana.	IT	Christian faith	EN-EN	Where Don Bosco used the term religion we now use the term Christian faith (often without the capitalised version of faith). Salesian action is geared towards educating young people to a sound and active Christian faith.	Today the whole discussion of New Evangelisation revolves around the fact that Christian faith and human existence, human civilisation, have become separated. Faith is privatised instead of being a common thing, commonly expressed and acted upon.
fedeltà dinamica 363-famsal.txt - possibili al suo tempo. Oggi, come espressione di fedeltà dinamica alla sua volontà è	IT	dynamic fidelity 積極的忠貞	EN-EN ZH	The term comes from Evangelica Testificatio 1971. It is used in reference to the founding charism.
festa salesiana Cg23.txt - La festa salesiana non è mai manifestazione di un vuoto interiore alla	IT	Salesian festivity 慈幼會慶節	EN-EN ZH	These joyful and festive features of the primitive Oratory were not lost sight of during its period of development.	Return to Index
fiction Return to top	EN	telefilm based on real events, real lives.	EN-EN	One might well ask why this word is in the glossary. Because of its recent application to the TV mini-series ‘Don Bosco’ by Lux Vide and RAI Uno. To gloss this word as fiction in English is likely to lead people to the wrong conclusion. It is a typical example of what can happen when languages come into contact and re-borrowing occurs.	Be careful – the English word has only recently, but forcefully entered the Italian language to describe films (of real events and people such as a biography of DB but Jesus Christ is also a candidate!) which are then transposed into the TV medium. The other word that has entered the language as a twin is reality – to describe the TV medium again but this time for situations that reflect reality but where the events and people are fictional. Strange, but there you have it!
Figli di Maria, i 341vigano.txt - I giovani maturi in età furono centinaia. Li chiamò «Figli di Maria». Essi rallegrarono i suoi ultimi anni di vita	IT	Sons of Mary	EN-EN	The reference is in fact to late vocations and the Opera dei Figli di Maria or Sons of Mary Programme.
Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice FMA	IT	Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (also simply Salesian Sisters) FMAs 進教之佑孝女會母佑會	EN-EN ZH	Founded by St Mary Mazzarello with Don Bosco. FMA is retained for all language versions. The more common colloquial term is Salesian Sisters.	The second main branch of the Salesian Family. cf also aggregati
figliuoli DBGiovprov.txt - miei figliuoli, molti furono in simile guisa ingannati. Chi ci	IT	boys, sons, children 兒子孩子	EN-EN ZH	A term used by DB in reference either to the boys at the Oratory or to his Salesians	cf comment on 'giovani'
fioretti Return to top Dbdomsav.txt - nove 0fioretti ovvero nove atti di virtù da praticarsi	IT	good actions, small act of sacrifice, little stories 神花	EN-EN ZH	The term has a range of meanings in Salesian use – probably today, the last of the three meanings, little stories, is the most common. Fioretti salesiani are the kinds of little examples, brief personal edifying stories, mostly, (cf. esempio) that visiting Superiors like to tell the community.	Return to Index
fisionomia 289vigano.txt - fisionomia del suo spirito evangelico	IT	special character, shape 外貌特性	EN-EN ZH	Avoid glossing with physiognomy
Flash eg12-Comunicazione fra segretaria ispettoriale e segretaria generale.txt I dati statistici (FLASH) a fine anno	EN	Flash	EN-EN	A technical Salesian term for the annual written collection of statistics sent to the General Administration from the provinces	One of the clearest indications that this is a neologism is revealed by the common presentation of the word in quotation marks or capitalised.
Fondazione Don Bosco nel Mondo	IT	Don Bosco in the World Foundation 鮑思高世界基金會	EN-EN ZH	Don Bosco in the World was the title of a book first published in 1958, an outline in writing and in pictures, of Salesian work around the world.	Now adopted as the name of a registered (in Italian law) entity as described. Cf. ONLUS
Fondazione ‘Don Bosco Nel Mondo’	IT	Don Bosco in the World Foundation 鮑思高世界基金會	EN-EN ZH	A formal entity for receiving donations for Salesian causes
Fondo di solidarietà del Rettor Maggiore	IT	Rector Major’s solidarity fund 總會長互助基金	EN-EN ZH	Monies usually sent to The Centre by the provinces and disbursed according to need, directly by the Rector Major (though after hearing from the province where the request comes from).
fondo Don Bosco Pv9.txt - (1Fondo Don Bosco n. 1942) Return to top	IT	fondo Don Bosco 鮑思高基金	IT-IT ZH	Perhaps best left untranslated since it refers to a division of the central archives that would always need to be indicated in its original version. It has the sense of something kept in trust
Fondo Missioni 364vecchi.txt - Non è minore la solidarietà economica che scorre per diversi canali: il fondo missioni, il fondo solidarietà, i notevoli	IT	Missions Fund 傳教基金	EN-EN ZH	An official channel via the General Administration for distributing mission funds
formatore 387chavez.txtPlus8MoreFiles.txt formatore di consacrati e, più tardi, di consacrate…	IT	formator 培育者	EN-EN ZH	An awkward term in English but generally adopted in Church circles	Return to Index
formazione Animazione missionaria.txt - Favorire la formazione di tutti i soggetti della Comunità Educativa Pastorale alla testimonianza di vita e	IT	formation, education 培育	EN-EN ZH	Italian is much more like to speak of formazione where English might use education, but the terms formazione and educazione are interchangeable in Italian, and refer especially to the gaining of attitudes and understanding.	In the context of religious life, formation. E.g. initial and ongoing formation. In the context of schooling – education (e.g. as in formazione professionale, formazione dei giovani)
formazione cristiana Return to top 373vecchi.txt - con fierezza la statistica, come segno della buona formazione cristiana dei suoi giovani.	IT	Christian formation	EN-EN	While the meaning of the term if fairly obvious, it helps to understand that it appears, in Salesian documents, often in the context of a description of the services we offer, e.g. through the parish ("a parish that evangelises"), or in the Oratory, or school... Christian formation, then, belongs very much within the ambit of the oratory criterion.
Formazione dei Salesiani di Don Bosco	IT	Formation of the Salesians of Don Bosco 慈幼會士的培育	EN-EN ZH	Title of the Ratio Fundamentalis
formazione iniziale SDB-Regolamenti-i.txt - prenderne pratica, soprattutto durante il periodo della formazione iniziale .	IT	initial formation	EN-EN	In general terms refers to a phase in Religious Life for gaining an understanding of criteria and methods that must accompany the young Religious for all of his or her life. Hence it indicates that there is a connection between initial and ongoing formation. The former is in view of the latter.	The period of initial formation for a Salesian includes the immediate preparation for novitiate, the novitiate and post novitiate period and preparation for final profession.
formazione intellettuale 388COLLABORAZIONE INTERISPETTORIALE.txt autorevolezza di orientamento. Oggi è quindi indispensabile "una formazione intellettuale Return to top	IT	intellectual formation	EN-EN	One of the main elements of initial formation of the Salesian, along with a humanistic and spiritual formation. Intellectual formation today involves a solid cultural formation as well.	In today's climate, also, an intellectual formation needs to be closely integrated with a moral and affective formation. The details of intellectual formation of the Salesian candidate are to be found in FSDB
formazione permanente 382 - Coadiutore - i.txt - Non è da trascurare infine la formazione permanente dei salesiani coadiutori, perché possano	IT	continuing formation, ongoing formation 持續培育	EN-EN ZH	cf initial formation.
formazione professionale 385chavez.txt -Una seconda sottolineatura vorrei dedicarla alle Opere di formazione professionale,	IT	vocational training 職業培訓	EN-EN ZH	cf. comment on professionale elsewhere.	It may not always refer to ‘occupational’ of course – could be straight ‘technical.’ Formazione, Formazione Professionale are technical terms in Italian education and educational legislation in Italy.
Formazione professionale iniziale	IT	Initial vocational training 初步職業訓練	EN-EN ZH	This term is a technical one in Italian educational legislation and probably would not normally be found in its English translation where it does not have a normal equivalent.	Return to Index
formazione specifica 382 - Coadiutore - i.txt - attenzione alle fasi del postnoviziato (FSDB 408-409; 420-421; 424) e della formazione specifica	IT	specific formation	EN-EN	The term is a technical one in the context of the Salesian Ratio and refers to the differentiation between the candidate for Salesian priesthood and the Salesian Brother.
fragilità vocazionale 389Chavez.txt - alla fragilità vocazionale dei giovani confratelli.	IT	vocational frailty 聖召的脆弱	EN-EN ZH	Preferred to ~ fragility. We can say confidently that this is a new term in the Salesian lexicon	The term has become prominent in recent studies by the General Council of motivations for vocational losses.
frazione Return to top Dbmosf.txt - Fatto di altro genere, ma eziandio spiacente mi succedette a Croveglia Frazione di Buttigliera.	IT	hamlet 小部份	EN-EN ZH	The word is found in Salesian reference usually in its meaning of a small group of houses--even less than a village. Cf also Borgata
Freìsa	IT-PIE	Freìsa	IT-PIE	A grape type (name of wine) typical of the Monferrato region around Don Bosco’s home town of Castelnuovo.
Fusagasugá 380chavez6.txt - Progetto 1Fusagasugá:	ES	Fusagasugá	ES-ES	Place name in Colombia but refers to a Social Communication project in Latin America begun in 1992