Don Bosco Converts Police Sent to Spy on Him | Ep. 192

Don Bosco wanted to have photographs taken of the boys of his Oratory School in church, to show their number and their grouping. It didn't even have to be a photograph, a painting would suffice. He went on: I'd especially like to have a painting showing the uniformed policemen sent by the city authorities to find out if I was preaching revolution and lawlessness. You can see the picture: several hundred lads docilely hanging on my words, with six uniformed policemen, two by two, standing stiffly at attention in different spots of the church, arms folded, listening to my sermon. They were a great help in supervising the boys, although they were there to spy on me. The painting might even be more interesting if it showed the policemen wiping away a furtive tear with the back of their hand or muffling their faces in their handkerchiefs to hide their emotions. Or they could be shown kneeling among the boys who thronged my confessional, waiting their turn. My sermons, you see, were directed more to them than to the boys, because I spoke about the four last things: sin, death, judgment and hell. They had to report to their superiors and to the mayor, who wanted to know if Don Bosco had preached revolt. "He certainly made me revolt against myself," each one would reply. "I too made my Easter duties after years of neglect. . . . He talked of death as though we were already laid out or about to die in minutes. .. . And then hell! I've never heard such a description! And to think that Don Bosco ended by saying his description was but a shadow of the real thing!" This reflected Don Bosco's belief that the most effective weapon to save souls in a priest's arsenal was through preaching. He mostly preached about the frequent reception of Holy Communion, which he considered to be a must for faithful Catholics. But what was Don Bosco’s method for writing a sermon? This video is far from a definitive study of his method, but I would like to share some excerpts from The Biographical Memoirs of Saint John Bosco in which he expressed an opinion on how a priest should give a sermon.
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Thank you to Salesiana Publishers for their kind permission to use the English translation of The Biographical Memoirs of Saint John Bosco by Fr. Giovanni Battista Lemoyne et al. (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Salesiana Publishers, Inc., 1964-2003).
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St. John Bosco’s advice for preaching is so sublime and beautiful, that I think every priest should hear it. Please don't hesitate to share!

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I just love the way your present the stories of Saint John Bosco. Thank You again Matthew Miller for your hard work in presenting the Love of God through Saint John Bosco. There is so for us learn from these stories.

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Saint Don Bosco is such a gift from God. Thank you for posting.

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Thanks Mathew for sharing these stories
God bless Mathew

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Well narrated and thank you for sharing this informative video with us, Matthew! Christ the King be praised! Saint John Bosco, pray for us sinners. Amen!

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I love Saint John Bosco. Thanks for this really good and insightful video. God bless! Saint John Bosco, pray for us! 🙏❤️

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Awwwww, Matthew, you won my heart with the distinguished doggie by your side. ThanQ for walking in the steps of Francis of Assisi.
Glad to be a subber of this Channel.
Please keep the Don Bosco stories coming. They're all Food for the Soul.✝️💜✝️💜🙏🙏🙏

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St John Bosco, please help the youth of today. 🙏

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Thank you, from a priest getting to know Don Bosco

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Wonderful explanation loved video

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Don Bosco is simply the best! My parents chose a good patron for me.

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When I was young, up to 25, the country I grow up in was mass specific for children, under 12, and it was the vigil mass, 7PM. Of course parents could bring their Young's to a regular mass, but it was not encouraged, because it created a distraction to the adults. Today? Few parents bring them.

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Hello brother! Thank you for this! I have the complete volumes of the Biographical Memoirs, may I ask which volume and page did this memoir is recorded?

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You're very welcome. It's a collection of comments on sermons from across the memoirs, spanning several volumes. I've been compiling for a year.

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