Don Bosco di Gallico Oratory: foundation of a healthy and solid community

On Sunday 31 July the youth summer 2022 ended, promoted by the Salesian family and theDon Bosco oratory from Upper Gallic.

I wanted, as a parent and member of the Gallico community, to write about this wonderful experience because for those like me who grew up in the northern suburbs of Reggio Calabriain the middle of the war between gangs, he knows well the importance of having educational figures who teach you that life is a gift and should not be wasted.

This teaching passes above all through the accompaniment in the growth of Boys and the testimony of life given by the educators who, during the summer days, gave the gift and demonstration of great love and dedication to the children and the teachings of Don Bosco.

The act of caring, spirituality and responsibility, aimed at creating human growth, have been given back to the community and with them a heart capable of loving by transcending the relational limits to which we often confine him.

This does nothing but testify that the community from Gallic she is healthy, more integral than ever, and she cannot, and does not want to, do without the oratory because in it the light of hope is disclosed for many young and old.
The oratory is not only a physical place, even if at the moment it is unjustifiably closed and reopening it to the community would not be bad, but it is also a place where the right values ​​are transmitted. Same valuesit should be remembered, that due to the demerit of adults they would seem to have disappeared among young people, more and more alone, annihilated by a future without prospects and full of anger.

Therefore, on the basis of what has been written, one wonders: why keep closed a place of formation such as the oratory of Gallico which over many years has proved to be a forge of solidarity and growth harmonica for boys?

The educational and social importance of the oratory is an irrefutable fact and for this reason the many children of Don Bosco di Gallicoknowing of this, they never gave up, continuing the path undertaken by those before them and for this I am personally grateful.

They have created, with spirit, strength of mind and with the joy of always and of those who have a big heart, many events and moments of aggregation, bringing back the smile of children on the streets and in the places chosen to remedy what it was snatched from him and denied without restraint.

Today, it would be desirable, after the great demonstration that the Gallico community gave and that Salesianthat the oratory would return to the children and to those who managed it with wisdom and love for so many years.

The ability to “do social” shown by the children and by all the members of the Don Bosco di Gallico oratory should be taken as an example by those who today have commodified discomfort or no longer know how to take care of others.

The irony, the play, the verve, the sensitivity and the art of loving one’s neighbor, are all peculiarities and abilities that children, teenagers, entertainers and all the people who make up the great family of the oratory of Gallico have given us, through the true spirit of authentic love that the whole universe would need. Authentic love, awakened in the heart of those who travel in tune with the emotion of joy, the highest and noblest condition of ephemeral material happiness.

I conclude by thanking all entertainers of the oratory of Gallico Don Bosco and the whole Salesian community which has given back to the town and to all its inhabitants and especially to children and young people the joy that, as Don Bosco taught: “she is the most beautiful creature that came out of the hands of God after ‘love.”

Don Bosco di Gallico Oratory: foundation of a healthy and solid community