Our Salesian Family

Salesians of Don Bosco, Sri Lanka.

About

Our Salesian Family

Don Bosco (St. John Bosco) was inspired to create a vast movement of persons to bring the Gospel of Jesus to young people and to work for their benefit. Don Bosco founded:

  • the Society of St. Francis de Sales (Salesians of Don Bosco),
  • the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (Salesian Sisters),
  • the Association of Salesian Cooperators, and
  • the Association Devoted to Mary Help (ADMA)

Other Salesian Family Groups have formed since then and today there are 31 Groups. The Salesian Family Groups have spread throughout the world. These Groups live in communion with each other, share the same spirit, and with specifically distinct vocations, continue the mission Don Bosco began. Don Bosco’s Salesian charism continues to inspire people to serve young people, especially those who are poor and at risk.

Here are some of those groups of Salesian Families established in Sri Lanka…

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Salesian Instructors & Teachers – equipped with Salesian

Salesian Preventive System & Salesians Instructors

Salesian Preventive System is the educative method developed by the Salesians. upon the pedagogical experience of Saint John Bosco with poor youngsters in 19th century Turin. It is based on three pillars: reason, religion and loving-kindness. Even if Don Bosco appears as the main representative of this method of education and formation of the young, other characters have contributed to its previous development like Philip Neri and Francis de Sales.

The history of the Salesian Preventive System can be traced in the life and apostolate of Saint John Bosco (1815–1888). During the second half of the 19th century, Don Bosco began a work among poor youth in Turin, especially those who were homeless, orphans and who survived early childhood as a result of the industrial revolution. A few decades earlier most of the children of the poor would not have lived until adulthood. The industrial revolution lead to living children who needed direction.

As Don Bosco did not write extensively on the matter, the educational preventive system may be studied in the identity and actions of Don Bosco. Carlo Nanni defined Don Bosco as a man of action rather than a scholar.

Today, almost every salesian house is animated by the cooperation of the Salesian Instructors who follow and relive the salesian style of education, to make the youngsters good Catholics and honest citizens.

The society of St. Francis de Sales or Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), is a religious Congregation founded by St. John Bosco in 1859 in Turin, Italy for the purpose of helping, educating and training poor boys. To date, services of the Salesians have spread to 131 countries in the world. In Sri Lanka, the very first Don Bosco Centre was established in 1956 at Negombo. The Salesians of Don Bosco have, to date established 18 centres in different parts of the country. 

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Salesian Instructors & Teachers

Equipped with Salesian Preventive System & Salesians Instructors

Salesian Preventive System is the educative method developed by the Salesians. upon the pedagogical experience of Saint John Bosco with poor youngsters in 19th century Turin. It is based on three pillars: reason, religion and loving-kindness. Even if Don Bosco appears as the main representative of this method of education and formation of the young, other characters have contributed to its previous development like Philip Neri and Francis de Sales.

The history of the Salesian Preventive System can be traced in the life and apostolate of Saint John Bosco (1815–1888). During the second half of the 19th century, Don Bosco began a work among poor youth in Turin, especially those who were homeless, orphans and who survived early childhood as a result of the industrial revolution. A few decades earlier most of the children of the poor would not have lived until adulthood. The industrial revolution lead to living children who needed direction.

As Don Bosco did not write extensively on the matter, the educational preventive system may be studied in the identity and actions of Don Bosco. Carlo Nanni defined Don Bosco as a man of action rather than a scholar.

Today, almost every salesian house is animated by the cooperation of the Salesian Instructors who follow and relive the salesian style of education, to make the youngsters good Catholics and honest citizens.

Salesian Instructors & Teachers

Equipped with Salesian Preventive System & Salesians Instructors

Salesian Preventive System is the educative method developed by the Salesians. upon the pedagogical experience of Saint John Bosco with poor youngsters in 19th century Turin. It is based on three pillars: reason, religion and loving-kindness. Even if Don Bosco appears as the main representative of this method of education and formation of the young, other characters have contributed to its previous development like Philip Neri and Francis de Sales.

The history of the Salesian Preventive System can be traced in the life and apostolate of Saint John Bosco (1815–1888). During the second half of the 19th century, Don Bosco began a work among poor youth in Turin, especially those who were homeless, orphans and who survived early childhood as a result of the industrial revolution. A few decades earlier most of the children of the poor would not have lived until adulthood. The industrial revolution lead to living children who needed direction.

As Don Bosco did not write extensively on the matter, the educational preventive system may be studied in the identity and actions of Don Bosco. Carlo Nanni defined Don Bosco as a man of action rather than a scholar.

Today, almost every salesian house is animated by the cooperation of the Salesian Instructors who follow and relive the salesian style of education, to make the youngsters good Catholics and honest citizens.