- Numbers in heavy type indicate articles of the Constitutions
- Numbers in ordinary type indicate articles of the General Regulations.
- "a domo" 165,10 166,3
- occasional of confreres 50
- of the provincial from the province 153
- of chapter members from the general chapter 123
- lawful - from one's own province 166
- of the rector from his house 172
Action
- apostolic - and vows 61
- Don Bosco, contemplative in - 12
Acts
- of general chapter, validity of 152
- of general council, official organ 110
Administration
v. Temporal goods; Economy; Economer
Admissions
- general procedure 108 165 81
- to novitiate 165 90
- to first profession 165 93
- to perpetual profession, ministries and ordinations 108 117 165
- from another Institute 94
Adolescents
- and Dominic Savio 9
- in the aspirantate 17
Adults
- their place in the educative and pastoral community 47
Advancement
v. Development
Affection
- for aged and sick confreres 53
Aged
- confreres in the community 53
- care of - 177
Agreements
- for parishes 25
- for mission territories 23
Alienation
- of the goods of the Congregation 132,1o 188
Animation
- of groups and youth movements 35
- of Salesian parish 26
- a duty of Salesian authority
- Provincial services for 142,5
Apostle(s)
- Christ – of the Father 11
- Salesians – of young 35 96
- young Salesians - 46
- imitation of – 72
- call of – by Christ 96
Apostolic
- projects produced by Don Bosco 1
- project of Don Bosco and ourselves 2
- our - consecration and our Society 4
- fruitfulness in Salesian family 5
- charity 10
- life and penance 18
- animation of groups of - action 35
- renewal of - commitment 88
- creativity 118
- purification of - intentions 90
- concern and prayer 93
- Salesian - vocation 96
- Constitutions and - project of the Society 192
Apostolic See
- approves Constitutions and deliberations of general chapter 148
- supreme interpreter of Constitutions 192
- R.M. representative of - for UPS and vice versa 105
- discharge of business with - 145 109
- consent of - needed for resignation of R.M. 128
Appointment(s)
- of provincial (or superior of other circumscriptions) 132 158 162 143
- of provincial councillors 132 166 167 106,9 154
- of substitute of member of general council 132 142
- of secretary general 132 144
- of procurator and postulator general 132 145
- of rector 165 177 156 170
- of director of novices 112 165
- of provincial delegate 159 165
- of local councillors 180
- of vice-rector, economer and those responsible for local sectors 183
- of parish priest or moderator 27 157
- of delegate for a delegation of R.M. 106 138
- of moderator (and technical commission) for general chapter 112
- of precapitular commission 113
- of secretaries and other officials of general chapter 116
- of moderator of provincial chapter 156 168
- of provincial secretary 157 159
Archives
- central, responsibility for 144
- of a province 62 159
- of a house 62 146 178 180 190
Ascesis
- daily 18
- community 52 53 73
- and obedience 69
- and poverty 73 75 58
- and chastity 84 66
- and reconciliation 90
- as a response to the Word of God 90
- in the formation experience 98
- in the use of the means of social communication 44 66
Aspirantate
- characteristics and functions of 17
Assistance, educative
- as an attitude and method 39 115
v. also Presence
Associations
- and groups: promotion of 8
v. also Groups
Atmosphere
- Salesian - as family 16 37 5
- of oratory of Don Bosco, a permanent criterion 40
- Salesian community - of orientation and vocational growth 37 49 109
Attitudes
- and means of growing in chastity 84
Authority
- service of -:
- of Sovereign Pontiff 125
- of Rector Major 127 104 105
- of general chapter 120 147 104
- of provincial 162
- of superior of vice-province 158
- of extraordinary visitor 104
- of provincial chapter 170
- of rector 176
- of provincial conferences 139
Authorizations
- concerning: real estate; loans; legacies, bequests or donations with
obligations attached; establishing annuities, student burses, Mass
obligations, foundations; construction, demolition, transformation of
buildings 188 165 156,9
- opening or closing houses, modifying scope of existing works or starting
unusual works 132 165,5
- new experiments, and substantial changes in the nature of a work 181
- living away from religious house 165,10
- opening our schools to girls 3 156,1
- accepting parishes 25
- accepting obligations outside the community 69 35 156,4
- acts of administration of goods after profession 51
- permanent change of province 151
- change of location of provincial house 153 156,5
- approval of modifications, solutions to economic problems, or other
initiatives of importance in the houses 156,12 200
- contracting debts or loans 191
- of the Salesian 15
- of Don Bosco and the Salesian 19
- Psychological - and chastity 82
Balance-sheet
v. Financial report
Banks
- title of account-holders in 187
Baptism
- Salesian life a development of 2 60
- religious profession a confirmation of 23
- in the profession formula 24
- development of in the young by service of education 37
Beatification
- causes of - 145
Beatitudes 25 62 75
Bequests, legacies and donations 188,3
Bishop
v. Local Ordinary
Boarding establishments
- form part of works of the Society 42
- characteristics and services of 42 15
Bosco, Don
- founder 1 4 8 96 100 192
- at origin of Salesian family 5
- our model 21 97 196
- fidelity to 6 118 146 103
- and Mary 8 9
- at origin of Salesian spirit 10-21
- and pastoral charity 10
- and union with God 12 95
- and prayer 86 89 91
- and the Church 13
- and predilection for the young 14
- and loving kindness 15
- and family spirit 16 173
- and the preventive system 20 38 39
- and those for whom we work 26 27 30
- and integration and social advancement 31 33
- oratory of - the permanent criterion 40
- and social communication 43
- and the vows 61 71 73 78-79 81-82
- and formation 97
- study of - 21 37 85 91
- monthly commemoration of 75
Boys in the oratory 11
Brother
v. Salesian Brother
Budget
v. financial report
Buildings 188,5
Bulletin, Salesian
- function of 41
Bursar
v. Economer, local
- causes of 145
Catechesis
- fundamental dimension of our mission 34
- in the local educative and pastoral plan 7
- and the Salesian parish 26
- study of - in initial formation 82
v. also Evangelization
Causes
- of beatification and canonization 145
Censorship
- of publications 34
Centre(s)
- for pedagogical and catechetical services 42
- for vocational guidance 16
- Salesian - of studies 84
- youth -
- professional training - 42
- for social communication 137
- publishing -
- for audiovisual productions and transmissions 31
Chapter, general
- ordinary and extraordinary 149
- nature and scope of 146
- authority and tasks of 120 147
- deliberations of 149
- convocation of 132,1o 143 150 111
- members of 151 114
- preparation of (moderator and technical commission) 112 113 115
- opening of and first official acts 116-119
- presidency of 120
- course of work of 121-123
- transmissions of news of - to confreres 124
- experts and observers at 125
- election of R.M. and members of general council v. Elections
- constitution of groups of provinces by 154
- requisite numbers of those present 152
- interpreter of Constitutions 192
- closing of 135
Chapter, provincial
- nature and deliberations of 170 132,1o
- convocation of 165,6 172
- competence of 120 171 167
- ordinary and extraordinary - 172
- members of 173
- electors of delegates 174
- election of delegates and substitutes 161 166 169
- moderator of - and those who can be invited 168
Charism
- of Founder, principle of unity 100
- fidelity to - of Founder 126 146
- Marian dimension of Salesian - 37
- missionary dimension of Salesian - 30
Charity
- of Christ source of our - 15 41 95
- pastoral - in Salesian spirit 3 10 14
- Mary model of pastoral - 92
- pastoral - and evangelical counsels 61
- and preventive system 20
- and mission to working classes 29
- inspiration of activities and works 41
- fraternal - in Salesian community 50 54 61 194
- and obedience 65-67
- and chastity 83
- and authority 121 161
- in colloquy with rector 49
- and scrutinies 81
- continual growth in 25
Chastity
- and Salesian loving-kindness 15
- evangelical meaning of vow of 80
- and Salesian mission 81
- and human maturity 82
- and community life 83
- and relationships and friendships 68
- means of approach for growth in - 84
- and insertion in the world 66
- employment of female personnel 67
Christ
v. Jesus Christ
Chronicle
- of the house 179
Church
our Society in the - 4 6 146
- sense of - an element of Salesian spirit 7 13 24
- educative initiation to life of the - 35 47
- the community, expression of - 85
- knowledge of documents of - 175
Church, particular
- solidarity with and service to 42 48 57 157 2 3 84 135
- service to - in non-Salesian structures 35
Coadjutor
v. Salesian Brother
Coeducation 3 156,1
Collaboration
- with the design of God 37
- in the Salesian family 5
- between confreres 66
Colloquy
- with the superior 70 49
- during initial formation 79
Commemorations, monthly
- of Don Bosco 75
- of Mary Help of Christians 74
Communal reflection
- in general chapter 146
Communication
- brotherly - in community life 51
- regarding work of confreres 59
- social - v. Social communication
v. also Information
Communion
- unity of - in the Salesian spirit 11
- with all forces in the Church 13
- fraternal - (commitment) 24 46 51
- bonds of fraternal - 50 88 90
- of the Society in the universal Church 59
- fraternal - and profession of the counsels 61
- of goods 73 76
- with dead confreres 94
- in the exercise of a single authority 122
- within a province 157
Community day
- annual (local and provincial) 42
Community, educative and pastoral 47 5
Community, formation 103 109 110
Community, local
- identity of 175 150
- roles in 183-185
- fraternal and apostolic:
- balance in work of 43
- welcoming of visitors to 45
- sectors reserved for confreres 56
- relationship of - with families of confreres 46
- feastday of 42
Community, parish 20
Community, provincial
- annual - feastday 42
Complementarity
- between priests and lay members in Salesian vocation and mission 4 45
- in composition of chapters and councils 169
Concelebration 84
Conferences
- episcopal - and Salesian mission 48
- provincial -:
Confession
v. Reconciliation
Congregation
v. Society, Salesian
Consecration
- nature of our apostolic - 3 195
Constitutions
- a way that leads to Love 1 64 196
- particular law of the Society 191
- authentic interpretation and sense of 192
- and vow of obedience 68
- binding quality of 193
- modification of text of 148 152
- study of - in the novitiate 91
- fidelity to 55 103
- and deliberations of general chapter 148
Consultant groups
- economic and administrative 185
- at provincial level (offices, secretariates) 157 160
- at service of general council (technical offices) 107
- at interprovincial level 142
Consultations
- and principle of shared responsibility 123
- for appointment of provincial 162 143
- for appointment of provincial councillors 167 154
- for appointment of rectors 177 170 156
- for constitution of juridical circumscriptions 156
Consultative vote
v. Vote, consultative
Contemplative
- the Salesian a - in action 12
Contracts
v. Authorizations, agreements
Contributions
- from houses 194 197 201
Conversion
- community in continual - 90
- confreres in continual - 99 99
- and retreats 91
Cooperators, Salesian
- in the Salesian family 5
- duties of each community to 38 39
- and councillor general for Salesian family 137
Copyrights and royalties 57
Co-responsibility
v. Shared responsibility
Correction, fraternal 52 90 121
Council, general
- function and duties of 130 131
- cases in which deliberative vote of - is required 132 106
- composition of 133
- election of members of 132,1o 141 153
- technical offices and consultant boards 107
- central secretariates 108
- acts of 110
v. also Councillors, general
Council, local
- convocation and duties of 178
- members of 179
- composition of 165,8 178 180
- deliberative vote of 181
- possible modification of structure and roles in 165,9 182
- meetings of 181
Council, provincial
- composition and duties of 164 155
- cases in which consent of is required 165 156
- cases in which consultative vote of is required 157 158
- secretary of 159
- other offices 160
v. also Councillors, provincial
Councillors, general
- for formation: duties of 135
- for youth apostolate 136
- for Salesian family and social communications 137
- for the missions 138
- duration in office 142
v. also Council, general; Councillors, regional
Councillors, provincial
- appointment and duration in office 132,2o 167
- requirements for eligibility 166
- functions and tasks of 168 169
- consultation preceding appointments 154
v. also Council, provincial
Councillors, regional
- duties of 140 154 135-137
- election of 141,1
Counsels, evangelical
v. Vows
Covenant
- religious profession a confirmation of baptismal - 23
Creativity and flexibility
- components of the Salesian spirit 19
- apostolic - 118
- in prayer 86
Cross
- and obedience 71
- acceptance of daily - 90 92
Culture
- formation of - in educative and pastoral plan 6
- formation of youth to - 32 6 13
- and 'poverty' of youth 1
- and social communication 43
- attention to working-class - 14
- and the preservation of documentary material 62
- centres for the animation of 84
- and the duties of the regional councillors 136,3
- integration of - with faith and life 114
v. also Formation, intellectual; Updating
Culture, Salesian
- during initial formation 85 91 98
Cultures, local
- and Salesian mission 7 30
- attention to context of 57 77
- unity of Salesian formation and 100 101