Obedience to the Pope

Saying that Don Bosco’s second trip to Rome was busy is an understatement. In fact, as written on a letter of Father Francesia, Don Bosco’s companion along the trip, to Chevalier Oreglia, he describes that “Don Bosco is always very busy.” Continuing with the letter, Fr. Francesia narrates the conversation with Don Bosco and the Pope, and he describes it like a “conversation that seemed to have been continued only from the day before.” it is proof that Pope Pius IX really had the congregation to his heart. This was also the particular audience with the Pope where Don Bosco was ordered, by vow of obedience, to write down his dreams concerning the beginnings of the Oratory. Don Bosco promised to do that and kept his word. BM 49

Keep in mind that Don Bosco possessed a dear love for the Pope, and thus, he and his Congregation was loved back. Do you have the same love and obedience for your superiors? Obedience makes the journey to sanctity a flight of fancy.

Article 64: Gospel significance of our Obedience “...Docile to the Spirit and attentive to the signs he gives us in the events of each day, we take the Gospel as our supreme rule of life, the Constitutions as a sure path to follow, and the superiors and the community as day by day interpreters of God’s will.”