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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
Pacificatori	IT	peacemakers 調停人	EN-EN ZH	A role at the Oratory in DB’s day.	Return to Index
padre Dbtrelet.txt -Sii sempre l’amico, il padre, dei nostri confratelli; aiutali in tutto quello che puoi nelle cose	IT	father 神父	EN-EN ZH	Salesian priests do not normally use padre in Italy but Don. DB preferred to use the term used by secular clergy rather than the term for religious priests.	The term is often found, obviously in reference to God as Father (Padre) or to the role of, say, the Rector as a father in the community, or to Don Bosco as Padre e Maestro (Father and Teacher)
Padre e Fondatore Cg24 DocCap.txt - attenuato il legame col nostro Padre e Fondatore.	IT	Father and Founder	EN-EN	A classic phrase in reference to Don Bosco by Salesians, favoured especially by Fr Viganò and to be found in other documents (e.g. GC24). Usually capitalised and nearly always expressed as our Father and Founder..
Padre e Maestro Return to top Cartcom.txt - Lo Spirito plasmò in lui un cuore grande come le arene del mare, lo rese Padre e Maestro di una cf also Iuvenum Patris	IT	Father and Teacher 慈父與導師	EN-EN ZH	A title that was applied to DB already by Card. Cagliero in 1922 and finally ‘crowned’ by JPII in 1988 in his letter Iuvenum Patris where he bestowed the title of Father and Teacher of Youth on DB.	Usually capitalised on Italian and English
padre, fratello, amico Pv3.txt - Il salesiano è amorevole, come padre, fratello, amico.	IT	father, brother, friend 慈父長兄良友	EN-EN ZH	A trinomial that often came to DB’s lips and which we retain today
Parola di Dio Costituzioni2.txt - Nell'ascolto della Parola di Dio e nella celebrazione dell'Eucaristia esprimiamo	IT	Word of God	EN-EN	Synonymous with the Gospel. It is God's initiative, challenge, gift. Don Bosco used the term often enough and made it prominent in his expression of his educational method. He commented that Dominic Savio had understood that the Word of God was guide for man and the way to heaven.	But it is in the post Vatican II period of renewal that an entirely new depth has been added to the term, and new ways of appreciating God's Word, amongst which lectio divina.
parolina all’orecchio 384chavez.txt - convinti di essere i prediletti. Ricordiamo la "parolina all’orecchio" e la conoscenza della loro situazione	IT	word in the ear 耳邊細語	EN-EN ZH	A simple ploy of DB’s to pass on a word of comment, encouragement or even reproof in the midst of a game or other activity	Now part of tried and proven Salesian tradition
parrocchia Return to top Costituzioni2.txt - i giovani casa che accoglie, parrocchia che evangelizza, scuola che avvia alla vita	IT	parish	EN-EN	The parish is one of the main mission settings for the Salesian mission. A Salesian parish is distinguished by its popular nature, its attention to the young. It regards the oratory/youth centre to be an integral part of its pastoral plan (R. 26)	C. 40 which is the so-called Oratory criterion indicates that every Salesian presence has the character of 'parish' insofar as it is a centre for evangelisation. We recall the history of Don Bosco's presence in Turin when he began to respond to the reality that many young people had no sense of belonging to a parish, and saw to it that the Oratory gave them such a sense of belonging.
parrocco	IT	parish priest pastor 本堂神父堂區主任	EN-UK-AU.. EN-US ZH
partita doppia	IT	double accounting	EN-EN	Accounting terminology	Return to Index
passeggiate autunnali 341vigano.txt - passeggiate autunnali era sempre attento a scoprire e incoraggiare vocazioni.	IT	The Autumn Walks 秋季大旅行	EN-EN ZH	Occurred over three or four weeks in September-October from 1847-1864. Particularly aimed at the dangers of the holiday period, but also as an opening to apostolate (the boys would do useful things and edifying things for the villages they visited) and to demonstrate how God could be served cheerfully.	cf also teatrino
passività	IT	liabilities 被動虧空	EN-EN ZH	Accounting terminology
pastorale (noun form) SDB-Regolamenti-i.txt inseriscano con iniziative e servizi specifici nella pastorale delle Chiese Return to top	IT	ministry 牧民神學	EN-EN ZH	Pastoral to be avoided especially in the phrase youth pastoral, since pastoral is an adjective in English
pastorale giovanile PG SEMINARIO PDO.txt Pastorale Giovanile Salesiana, si deve garantire che ci siano, in forma strutturale ed	IT	youth ministry, youth pastoral ministry 青年牧民工作	EN-EN ZH	cf. discussion of pastorale elsewhere. The term youth pastoral ministry allows us to retain the idea of pastorale	pastorale giovanile is one of the key sectors of the Salesian mission under the direction of a Councillor for YM
pastorale giovanile salesiana see above	IT	Salesian youth ministry 慈幼會青年牧民工作	EN-EN ZH	The abbreviation SYM would be a problem and is not regularly used, since it is used more commonly for Salesian Youth Movement. PGS does not have the same difficulty.
pastorale organico 387chavez.txt - L’elaborazione e la messa in pratica di un piano di pastorale organico, sistematico e	IT	integral ministry, holistic ministry, structured ministry 有系統的牧民計劃	EN-EN ZH	But NOT organic ministry which sounds like an agricultural venture! The term is relatively new in our discourse.
pastorale vocazionale Cg20-5.txt - Darà massima importanza alla catechesi, alla pastorale vocazionale, alla preparazione dei catechisti,	IT	vocation ministry 聖召牧民工作	EN-EN ZH	cf. comment elsewhere on vocazionale and pastorale	Return to Index
pastoralità Pv3.txt - evangelizzazione e promozione umana, tra pastoralità e docenza.	IT	pastoral work 牧民工作	EN-EN ZH	Like many –ità nouns in Italian it cannot be represented by a single term in English
paternità 354vecchi.txt - del rapporto educativo che nasce dalla bontà: la paternità. Essa è più che Return to top	IT	fatherliness 父愛父道	EN-EN ZH	Beware glossing as paternity! Favorite term of Fr. Rinaldi, who had been a Superior for something like 48 years, so naturally enough saw Don Bosco’s qualities through that prism	It is said: Don Rua-la Regola, Don Albera-la Pietà, Don Rinaldi-la Paternità. Don Ricaldone-il Lavoro. charismatic fatherliness is the term used in DSM 23
patrimonio SSCS - it.txt - Preservazione del proprio patrimonio storico;	IT	heritage, patrimony	EN-EN	In English, the term patrimony is more often applied in a canonical sense to the material goods (including land, buildings) of an Institute or House. When we meet the term in Salesian literature in Italian. however, it almost always means heritage in the broad sense of values, charism...	Hence we find: spiritual heritage, heritage of values, of Saleisan holiness, precious Salesian inheritance (or heritage), cultural heritage etc. Patrimonio-patrimony, then is a 'false friend' to be wary of in translation.
Patroni	IT	Patrons 主保	EN-EN ZH	A role at the Oratory in DB’s time, but also refers to the patrons of the Society such as St. Joseph....	‘they have the most important role of looking after the poorest and most abandoned, as also the apprentices and working boys attending the Oratory, to see that they are not being minded by those who might put their eternal health in danger’
peccato Return to top Dbdomsav.txt - - Ma non è peccato I' andare in quei luoghi?	IT	sin 罪惡	EN-EN ZH	The term provides no particular linguistic difficulty. Desramaut includes it, obviously, among his 100 words of Salesian spirituality, because it is a term that belongs to spiritual consideration and was clearly part of DB’s language and understanding of what it meant to save souls.	Return to Index
pedagogia Pv7.txt - spiritualità e anche della pedagogia di Don Bosco.'	IT	pedagogy 教育學	EN-EN ZH	A need for some caution when translating this word since it is more widely in use in Italian, especially in its derivatives, than in English. Almost always in English, pedagogia should be rendered by education. The adjective pedagogical is used in English though.	In Italian and for DB pedagogia was not just formal instruction or theory of education, both of which it tends to be in English, but the entire process involving home, school, Church etc.
pedagogia della preghiera Cg20-5.txt - pedagogia della preghiera, poiché lo stesso Spirito chiede a noi, uomini liberi, sforzo e collaborazione.	IT	pedagogy of prayer	EN-EN	In fact there are a number of pedagogia di/della... expressions in Salesian literature, of which pedagogy of prayer is one. It comes especially from a need to form young people (and ourselves) in Christian prayer, based on the experience of the disciples who asked Jesus to teach them how to pray.	The Salesian formation process involves a pedagogy of prayer. The term is currently popular in Salesian circles as we speak of listening to the Word, providing experiences of prayer for young people today.
penitenza Return to top Rfcncap1.txt - colloquio con il Direttore, della direzione spirituale, del sacramento della Penitenza,	IT	Penance 補贖	EN-EN ZH	When this term is encountered in Salesian discourse, at least in traditional discourse, it will almost always refer to The Sacrament of Penance (Confession, Reconciliation), and hence will be capitalised in English.	The term Sacrament of Penance has been kept by the Code of Canon Law. Common parlance speaks of Reconciliation, however, in English, while in Italian one finds Penitenza rather than Reconciliazione.
pensionato Cg24 DocCap.txt - scuola, pensionato universitario, giovani in difficoltà) possono esistere più	IT	hostel 旅舍宿舍	EN-EN ZH	There are several categories of Salesian hostel – junior, middle, senior, university and worker level…
Perfectae Caritatis	LA	Perfectae Caritatis	LA	The Decree on the adaptation and renewal of religious Life proclaimed by Pope Paul VI on October 28th 1965, at the Vatican Council II. Literally 'on the perfection of charity', a phrase which harks back to one used by St Francis de Sales
(la) perfezione della carità 360vecchi.txt - Il cuore, il centro e il senso della vita consacrata è, dunque, la ricerca della perfezione della carità,	IT	(the) perfection of charity	EN-EN	The term comes from St Francis de Sales in his Introduction to the Devout Life and describes a devout life as the perfection of charity.	The term has been adopted by the Church in its documents on religious and consecrated life. Most famously Perfectae Caritatis
pericolante Return to top Dbmem.txt - alla pericolante gioventù colle opere, col consiglio, col buon esempio o semplicemente colla preghiera	IT	at risk 處於危險的	EN-EN ZH	When DB first used it of a certain group of young people there was negative reaction. But he means those who are at risk of becoming anti-social because neglected	Return to Index
pericolanti e pericolosi	IT	in danger and dangerous 處於危險和危險的	EN-EN ZH	Implies youngsters without work and education,, just hanging around and exposed to problems, who could therefore be problems to society itself.	The use of this terminology in a circular on 20th December 1851 caused some offence, it seems. In fact DB did not use the term ‘pericolosi’ very often. His view of young people was generally more positive.
perquisizione Dbmosf.txt -perquisizione ad alcuni allievi, furono trovati libri empi ed osceni di ogni genere	IT	search 搜查	EN-EN ZH	The famous searches of the Oratory in 1860, organized by the local police, fearing that DB was involved in revolutionary tactics that might influence politics. School inspections by the Education Ministry also formed part of this intrusion
persona umana Return to top SSCS - it.txt - La persona umana è un essere di comunicazione, in dialogo, un essere per l’altro,	IT	human person	EN-EN	The term is spread evenly across the range of Salesian documentation from Vatican II onwards. Don Bosco employed the practical formula honest citizens and good Christians, where today he might have spoken of the dignity of the human person.	The term is also found in the Ratio is an aim of formation, as a subject to be studied (as part of philosophical anthropology).
pia DBCircolari.txt - (Dist. I. e. II. art. 23), affinché ciascuno dei Confratelli della nostra Pia Società sappia a	IT	pious 熱心的	EN-EN ZH	The term collocates most typically with Società as in Pia Società or the full term La Pia Società Salesiana. It was dropped from any official reference to the Salesian Society from 1926 onwards, given that by this time society was not considered to give any cause for wrong interpretation	Don Bosco used add it in to make it clear that his ‘society’ was not one of political or even of secret leanings, but a society interested only in good. The Superior Chapter in 1925 decided that ‘Pia’ would be attached only to the Pia Unione dei Cooperatori Salesiani
Piano di Azione del Settore PAS SSCS - it.txt - PAS – Piano di Azione del Settore	IT	Sector Action Plan SAP	EN-EN	Strategic device developed by the General Council in recent years to plan activities of a Sector (e.g. Social Communications) for a six year period.
Piano di qualificazione 371vecchi.txt -Nel piano di qualificazione di una Ispettoria, richiesto dai Regolamenti e ribadito nella lettera Io per voi studio, Return to top	IT	Preparation Plan, Qualification Plan	EN-EN	A plan for the formation of the formators. Referred to in the Regulations but reinforced by Fr Vecchi in his Letter Io per voi studio, For you I study. It was further reinforced by GC25.	By forming the formators the reference is to formation in general, even to education, not specifically to religious formation. It belongs to the area of ongoing or continuing formation, then
Piano di Regolamento per la Casa annessa all’Oratorio di S. Francesco di Sales	IT	Plan for Regulations for the Annex to the Oratory of St. Francis de Sales	EN-EN	First sketched out in 1853-54. Spelt out in more detail both in the short work on the Preventive System 1877 and in the Regulations for the houses of the Society of St. Francis de Sales	Return to Index
Piano Ispettoriale di Comunicazione Sociale PICS 390chavez.txt - sociale (cf. CG23), della sua équipe e del piano ispettoriale di comunicazione sociale	IT	Provincial Social Communication Plan PSCP 會省大眾傳播計劃	EN-EN ZH
Piano Ispettoriale di Formazione PIF 380chavez12.txt -Preparare ed aggiornare il ‘Direttorio’ e ‘Piano ispettoriale di formazione.	IT	Provincial Formation Plan PFP	EN-EN
^†piccolo clero DBricdirett.txt - Il piccolo Clero, la Compagnia di S. Luigi, del SS. Sacramento, dell’Immacolatta Concezione	IT	^†altar boys, Altar Boys Society	EN-EN
pie, devote, attente DBricdirett.txt - 3° Celebra la Santa Messa e recita il Breviario 0pie, attente ac devote.	IT	piously, devoutly and with care	EN-EN	The phrase is not normally translated, but quoted as is.	It comes from DB’s Confidential reminders to Rectors and is the third reminder: celebrate Mass and recite the Breviary pie, devote, attente.
pietà Return to top Pv3.txt - qua e là nel testo delle Costituzioni, specie per ciò che riguarda la pietà	IT	piety 虔誠神業	EN-EN ZH	Traditionally one of the terms that most readily distinguished the Salesian spirit from any other. Therefore the term needs to be understood in context. Part of the problem for us in English is that our piety loses much of the richness of the Latin pietas and the Italian pietà, even today. For us it is devotions – for Latin and Italian it is first of all devotion, and there lies the difference! There are practices of piety, but these are informed by true piety.	E. Ceria describes it adequately in his comments in the Annali Vol I in reference to the Chapter on Salesian spirit. Note that his final reference to nourishing piety by ‘word’ refers to human word (Good Night, word in the ear, etc) not The Word Return to Index
Polaris	EN	Polaris 北極星	EN-EN ZH	A group of religious Congregations take active responsibility in the financial sector. Polaris Investment S.A. (anonymous society) is a society for common Investment Funds registered in Luxemburg for the management of Common Investment Funds	This is a Salesian managed enterprise
Pontificio Ateneo Salesiano PAS Cg20-3.txt -Capo IV - Il Pontificio Ateneo Salesiano .	IT	Salesian Pontifical Atheneum 慈幼會宗座大學	EN-EN ZH	Now obsolete – became the UPS
portale Return to top SSCS - it.txt - Il Portale Web	IT	Portal	EN-EN	The term is applied to the Congregation's website www.sdb.org. 'The Portal' is all that is contained within the web-space that opens up when one clicks on the address www.sdb.org. The portal contains 4 main websites that host a total of more than 10,000 pages of information, 800 links to external websites, a powerful search engine, and a protected reserved area.
postnoviziato Return to top 382 - Coadiutore - i.txt - attenzione alle fasi del postnoviziato (FSDB 408-409; 420-421; 424) e della formazione specifica	IT	postnovitiate	EN-EN	A phase in continuity with the novitiate where one deepens one's common understanding of religious identity and takes up a preparation to be an educator and pastor. Normally at this stage candidates for Salesian priesthood and Brother candidates are to be found in the same formation community at this stage. It is worth noting that the English term postnovitiate, written as a single word, is unusual and will not normally be found in a dictionary. it would normally be hyphenated, but our Salesian literature in translation rarely hyphenates the term.	It is a time of identification with the Salesian vocation. We tend to distinguish between an immediate postnovitiate (usually a time of study of philosophy and other areas), which is also the period of first profession, and a later period after vows have been renewed. In practice this merges generally with the period of practical training. From postnovitiate, we also have postnovice, again a term peculiar to us in its unhyphenated orthography.
postulancy	EN	postulancy 申請	EN-EN ZH	Not an official term in the Salesian Ratio but some provinces designate the advanced stage within the pre-novitiate (which is an official term) as postulancy, and even have two stages, that of pre-postulancy and postulancy-e.g. in the Philippines.
postulatore generale Costituzioni4.txt - la nomina del procuratore e del postulatore generale (145 C);	IT	Postulator General 申請列品專員	EN-EN ZH	Usually capitalised in English	person nominated by the Rector Major to follow up all causes for canonisation
poveri Pv10.txt - specialmente i più poveri, e gli ambienti popolari. Questo ci	IT	poor 窮人	EN-EN ZH	When the term appears in the typical poveri e abbandonati (poor and abandoned) it means any kind of poverty – physical, economic, spiritual, cultural…	Return to Index
povertà Return to top SDB-Regolamenti-i.txt - servizio dei giovani poveri: dei giovani anzitutto che, a causa della povertà	IT	poverty, evangelical poverty 神貧	EN-EN ZH	A word for word gloss is not a problem. The problem begins when we have to explain what poor and poverty mean – these are quite elastic terms with many synonyms in our languages today, with implications not only economic and socail but psychological, cultural...	From Don Bosco himself, we retain in the renewed Constitutions the following reference: that we follow the Saviour who was born in poverty... in other words, DB begins with a reflection on evangelical poverty, and this is the term we use when speaking of the vow of poverty. Cardianl Raul Silva Henriquez, famously commented at Vatican II on evangelical poverty (fruit of grace) and socio-economic poverty (fruit of sin).
pratiche di pietà Dbps.txt - pratiche di pietà, vi si accosteranno volentieri con piacere e con frutto.	IT	practices of piety 熱心神工	EN-EN ZH
predilezione per i giovani IL NUOVO LOGO.txt - predilezione per i giovani. Nella sua persona tutti gli educatori	IT	predilection for the young	EN-EN	A term contained in the Constitutions (C.14) and descriptive of DB's comment that 'it is enough for you to be young for me to love you very much'.	Described as a special gift of God and an expression of pastoral charity. It gives meaning to the whole of our Salesian life.
prefetto DBcenstor.txt - dipende; un prefetto ne fa le veci ed è responsale della contabilità e della corrispondenza; un Direttore provvede	IT	prefect 副院長	EN-EN ZH	A role in Salesian communities which is now obsolete	The bursar, in today’s terminology
prefetto generale Pv12.txt - L'attuale denominazione sostituisce quella anteriore di «Prefetto generale».	IT	prefect general 總副會長	EN-EN ZH	Now rendered obsolete in the post-conciliar revision of terminology for Salesian leadership
preghiera Return to top Strenna05.txt - ricupero, sorretto dalla preghiera dell’intera Famiglia Salesiana che lo affidava	IT	prayer 祈禱	EN-EN ZH	The term is among Desramaut’s 100 words of Salesian spirituality and is probably a contender as a key concept of Salesian discourse.	We speak of personal and community prayer, not strictly distinguishing the two but noting that one arises from the other. We speak also of Salesian prayer, synonymous with apostolic prayer, with the chief reference points being St. Francis de Sales and Don Bosco. DB was different to many Saints in this regard - his prayer was profound but in terms of formal prayer, appeared minimal. This became a point of contention during the process of canonisation. It is also a feature of our contemporary Salesian 'theology', expressed as the grace of unity, or in St Francis de sales' terms as the ecstasy of action.
^†Preg.ma Signora	IT	^†Dear Madam	EN-EN	A salutatiion often found in Don Bosco's letters
prenoviziato Progetto personale - Formazione iniziale italiano.txt - Qualunque sia fase che stai vivendo - prenoviziato, noviziato, postnoviziato, tirocinio, formazione	IT	prenovitiate 初學前	EN-EN ZH	One of the official stages (the first) of initial formation	could be hyphenated in English
presbiterio	IT	sanctuary, presbiterium (body of priests) 至聖所	EN-EN ZH	Note: ‘false friend.’ Not presbytery, but the sanctuary surrounding the altar in a church, or a reference to the 'presbiterium'.	Return to Index
presbyter P Return to top	LA	priest P 司鐸	EN-EN ZH	As found only in the Year Book
presenza eg08-Casa Religiosa e Comunità Locale.txt - - L’apertura è il fatto di iniziare una presenza salesiana in un determinato luogo per una	IT	presence 臨在	EN-EN ZH	The Elementi Giuridici (2004) suggests by implication that a ‘Salesian presence’ may be simply that-an ‘opening’ of a house involving Salesians in a determined place for a particular mission (with due permission of RM and Council) [8.1.1]. But the term applies equally to canonical erection of a house. Another favourite Salesian reference is to 'presence' as a style, e.g. presenza animatrice or animating presence (of a Salesian community).	Should there not be a more precise definition of presence? In some parts of the Salesian world ‘presence’ implies the widest sense, e.g. as used in #391 of SGC, where it is an educational or otherwise Salesian witness outside the normal structures, or on the other hand the stricter ‘presence’ that comes from a regular community. Perhaps the outer sense of the word could be a ‘missionary residence’?
(la) presenza di Dio Return to top DBGiovprov.txt - spiri in pace con voi l'anima mia. Pensando quindi alla presenza di Dio colle	IT	(The) presence of God	EN-EN	Both Don Bosco and Mother Mazzarello made particular use of this term. In Don Bosco's case it is clear from his own reflections on his childhood and his mother, that Mamma Margaret had taught him this essential element of Christian life. The communities of Valdocco and Mornese made such a presence transparent.	GC23, outlining a youthful Salesian spirituality for today, emphasised the experience of God in daily life as a key element.
presenza salesiana eg02-Il Capitolo Ispettoriale.txt - . nel caso di una presenza salesiana non ancora canonicamente eretta: poiché essa deve sempre	IT	Salesian presence	EN-EN	The term is employed in two ways - to mean either a particular physical presence of a community of Salesians (a work, e.g. a school) or something more descriptive of the whole: a dynamic reality, a network of relationships, the set of projects and processes motivated by pastoral charity, carried out amongst and with young people, lay people, the Salesian Family	In its broadest sense Salesian presence is not something restricted only to the SDB community. The term often associated with 'new' as in new Salesian presence, or with significatività or meaningfulness, significance.
preside scolastico	IT	school principal, headmaster… 校長	EN-EN ZH	Different parts of the English-speaking world use different terms
Presidente confederale Cg20-3.txt - del Dr. Josè M. Taboa da Lago, 0Presidente Confederale degli ExAllievi,	IT	Confederal President	EN-EN	The term applied to the leader at world level of the Past Pupils of Don Bosco	Return to Index
presidenza SDB-Regolamenti-i.txt - Il Presidente, il regolatore e i tre moderatori costituiscono la Presidenza del Return to top	IT	executive (committee) 執行委員會	EN-EN ZH	The Italian term has wider extension than its English equivalent. Presidency refers to the office of president and/or to time spent in high office. Salesian Regulations 120-124 employ the term but with its Italian extension of meaning to group leadership in 120 and most likely also in 124. This is pushing the boundaries, although the Mormon Church already uses presidency in this way, and there are indications that EU countries (some) think of presidency as a group.	An example of Executive Committee as an appropriate gloss: ‘The management of the DBF is vested in an Executive Committee. The current Committee, elected in 2003, consists of its chairman Mr. John Wong and his team of 6 members.’ from DBF Foundation, Hong Kong (cf. Don Bosco Foundation)
prete Dbmosf.txt - diventerai guardiano di capre, di pecore o di altri animali. Mia madre: Chi sa che non abbi a diventar prete	IT	priest 司鐸	EN-EN ZH	in DB’s day mothers would tell their children not to use this term. But it was in frequent and correct use to describe the priest. It is just that it was also used as a disparaging term.	Preferred Italian term is sacerdote. Nevertheless, there is no difficulty in using the term prete in Italian then or today. Italian at least has a choice!
preventività 330vigano.txt - approfondita valorizzazione della «preventività» dovrà continuare ad arricchire la prassi educativa salesiana	IT	prevention 防止	EN-EN ZH	Avoid preventivity
preventivo 380chavez5.txt - Sistema Preventivo, ecc…	IT	preventive 預防措施	EN-EN ZH	The immediate concept of ‘preventiveness’ is not adequate for fully defining DB’s pedagogical system.	In DB’s case it implies both a defensive (negative) element and a promotional (positive) one.
primato di Dio Cg24 DocCap.txt - primato di Dio e celebra l'amore del Padre nel cuore dell'uomo e nella Return to top	IT	primacy of God 天主的首要地位	EN-EN ZH	The term hardly needs definition. Note that it appears in the Ratio, and is an important thrust of Fr Chavez as Rector Major.	‘Dio ti vede’ Don Bosco wrote on the walls at the Oratory, to emphasize that we are to discover God to be familiarly present.
prior	EN	prior	EN-EN	It may seem strange to find this term amongst a list of Salesian terms! Interestingly, it is applied, as far as we know, in just one situation. The Rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Bandel Shrine in Hooghly, (Kolkata) is also known as the Prior. The Bandel Church became a minor basilica in 1988. Today it is a vibrant Salesian parish with many groups and associations.	Bandel Basilica was founded in 1599 by the Portuguese Augustinians. In 1928 the Shrine was entrusted to the Salesians. The first Salesian in charge of the Basilica took the title prior in continuity with the long history of the Shrine's administration, and that continues to today.
procura 387chavez.txt -Merita anche di essere sottolineata la realtà della Procura delle Missioni a Madrid, che	IT	Mission Office, Development Office 傳教財務管理處	EN-EN ZH	While there is an ongoing debate about the various levels of Mission Office, there is no such thing in English as a procure (N). This term is a verb in English.	A distinction can be made sometimes between a Mission Office and Development Office, but the distinction is currently not a hard and fast one.
procuratore generale Costituzioni4.txt - un procuratore generale, che viene nominato dal Rettor Maggiore con il consenso Return to top	IT	Procurator General 宗座總代辦	EN-EN ZH	The task of dealing with the Apostolic See is ordinarily entrusted to a procurator general who is appointed by the Rector Major with the consent of his council and remains in office ad nutum
professio fidei eg01-L'Ispettore e il suo consiglio.txt - la "professio fidei" e il giuramento di fedeltà si veda l’APPENDICE A-7	LA	profession of faith 信仰宣誓	EN-EN ZH	Canonical requirement for those accepting ecclesiastical office, e.g. rector. Prescribed by Constitution 121 also.	Return to Index
professionale Costituzioni2.txt - competenza professionale e la formazione culturale.	IT	technical 專業	EN-EN ZH	Cf. also formazione professionale.	In its various combinations, the Italian term refers to something like (though not precisely) technical training. Technical School might be one of the glosses acceptable for ‘Scuola professionale.’ Alternatively and perhaps even more accurately, it could be Vocational Training or Vocational School
professione SDB-Regolamenti-i.txt possesso dopo la professione. Return to top	IT	profession 宣誓	EN-EN ZH	Often in Salesian circles a referenc