My dear friends: agree with me that sometimes simpler memories we hold in our mind are the most eloquent and expressive. Small seemingly unimportant events give you the necessary resiliency and more beautiful colors to the reality that holds our memories.
That is also true Salesian our history. simplest memories of those early years of the start of the Oratorio show us the freshness of a spring emerging that gives us crystal clear fresh water of a river in flood. Juan Bautista Francesia
, one of the first guys who stay with Don Bosco in Valdocco, has transmitted the memory of small events which happened in a lost corner of the Italian Piedmont. They have the cover of the great events happening simultaneously processors in the country, but if have the depth of saving a little story for hundreds of boys swirling in factories, on the outskirts of the city, streets and in the streets looking instinctively survive. Cannon fodder. Write
Francesia that Margarita Mama's kitchen became, in the autumn rain and long winter, in a familiar space and warm shelter for all the boys who came to the fire looking for a little warmth and affection. At home and in absolute poverty are interwoven beautiful pages of what might be called, without exaggeration, the cradle of the Salesian .
A boy, tortured by the jokes of his companions, mother found refuge with Margaret who gives a bunch of grapes and joking with him to make him smile .
The kid who has made a book and play ball with him to smash it. Mama Margaret, realizing called attention strongly rebuking. At the time, seeing mortified, thinking: "after the injury, we need the oil" , and fondly gives an apple.
A boy hungry and sneaks into the kitchen entertaining to use its oversight and steal a piece of cheese . Margarita Mama, washing vegetables, and realizes he complains: "Well! Consciousness is like tickling, there are those who feel and who does not feel " . And it gives a good slap on the wrist with a smile .
Sitting next to her one day a boy who went astray, he said in the goodness and power of a mother "I must tell you something important. Do not you realize you've changed? I know what you get. You neglect in your duties and you stopped praying. You're the last to go to church and go with reluctance. If God does not help What do you want to do in life? Eat this apple and think about it a little ".
For the boys who were well behaved, also had his word in his ear : "Well, I said. Don Bosco and the Lord is happy with you. Keep it up ".
Reason, religion and love . The three pillars on which to base the preventive system. Valdocco was a workshop to experience - live and direct - the educational approach of our father. Don Bosco has learned from Margarita. And we could say that the Salesian project has a lot of kind and gentle eyes of the mother . This is our memory, our history. The spring which always return to drink the fresh water of the Salesian spirit. Your friend, Jose Miguel Núñez
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