This evening's spiritual reading (a compilation of articles under the title Preventive System Spirituality) shed some interesting light on vocations - or lack of them. It is said that during Don Bosco's time, the Mother house used to annually see 50-70 boys go to Foglizzo for their novitiate. Well that's quite a number in comparison to the handful who opt for Salesian life today!
Besides the teaching and kind assistance, the superiors always kept the boys happy with wonderful games and lively recreation and were keenly interested in their well being. At the end of the year they could not leave such grant Salesians or separate themselves from the life and work which was so enticing. Surely this must have been the greatest of all motivations, over and above, direct divine intervention.
Before my mind took off on a investigating mode/mood to see why does this not take place today, I heard this sentence: On the contrary it would be difficult to get vocations from a mere sports club or a military barracks.
Now that speaks volumes. I wonder if some of our institutions are at least sports clubs or military barracks. No wonder the Rector Major keeps repeating ... 'return to Don Bosco'.
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