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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St John Bosco
DESCRIPTION:GIVE ME SOULS\, AND TAKE ALL THE REST AWAY \nA reading on St Don Bosco4 \n◊◊◊ \nDon Bosco has struck the imagination of all who have known him and his \nwork. There is no doubt that he was one of the most wonderful of men\, and even \nin that galaxy of great names which is the catalogue of Saints\, he occupies a \nplace apart. \n[Paul Claudel said that “In the Church there are some who made a \nprofession of sanctity…; who\, from the very first\, had the Calendar of Saints as \na goal. Don Bosco had no time for this\, and we can readily believe that if he \nbecame a saint it was not his fault.”] \nGenius as well as Saint\, it is often difficult to see where the one ends and \nthe other begins. Simple as a child and mostly to be found in the dust and clamor \nof a playground crowded with children\, he plays also with miracles and \nprophecies\, which he seems to make for fun. His speech is simple: so simple \nthat children listen fascinated to his new kind of eloquence — an eloquence very \ndifferent from that of the pulpit orators of the time. And his mind is so wise\, \nthat ministers\, kings and popes listen to his advice. \nA poor man\, of poor parents\, more millions passed through his hands \nthan through those of many a banker. He spent them with the prodigality of an \nAmerican playboy\, when it was a question of the salvation of souls; but he was \nas tight with each cent as the peasants he came from\, when it was a question of \nhis person\, or his comfort. He had the shrewdness of a captain of industry and \na trust in God that made him undertake even the impossible when he saw it was \nfor God’s glory. \nAbove all\, he was the most lovable of men. To know him was to love him\, \nand often to be so fascinated as to be physically unable to leave him. \nHis chosen\, or better\, his God-given mission was education\, and he is the \neducator of modern times. A man who could do with children what no man has \never done; he could attach to himself the little ruffians that roam the streets and \nmake of them lovable\, ideal young men. \nIndeed\, Don Bosco as a man\, as a Saint\, as an Educator occupies a place \napart. [He had a tremendous love for God and for souls\, and not much for \nanything else.] His motto was “Give me souls\, and take all the rest \naway.”  \n  \n 4 From the Preface to Saint John Bosco\, by A. Auffray; Salesian House: Tirpattur\, India\, 1959.9 \n 
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