Through a large collection of living and already departed Salesian Brother profiles shines a wonderful Salesian consecrated life expressed in the not-so-visible or less known way of being a Salesian religious. A striking feature of the collection is the direct first-person narrative of each of the 82 Brothers: "I was born... I felt... I was surprised."
This special publication is the result of painstaking research in the province, in the Salesian Central Archives in Rome (NB: With special gratitude to the late Fr Luigi Cei, SDB) and a passion for the Salesian vocation that will soon celebrate its Centenary in the Czech Republic in 2027.
The 208 pages are really quite interesting reading, with many adventures and stories of young men who followed Jesus with the heart of Don Bosco. The life stories of Salesian Brother - Missionary (Argentina, Ecuador, Hong Kong or Zambia), of their humble but crucial contribution to the Salesian mission shines out in many stories. Probably the most famous Czech Salesian Brother in history was Br Frantisek Hlavac, the first editor of the Czech Salesian Bulletin since 1930.
“We pray that this original publication will inspire many more provinces to raise the visibility of the Salesian Brother Vocation through their vocation story-telling, so important in the context of many very clerical Catholic communities around the world” is written on the website of the Salesian Publishers Portal in Prague.
Portal Publisher, 208 page.
The text of the volume is available at the bottom of the page.
