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Top photo by Amber Faust, bottom photo by Natasha Ivanchikina - Unsplash.com Fr. Calosso as a cherished spiritual guide who “forbade a penance I used to practice: he deemed it unsuited to my age and circumstances. He encouraged frequent confession and communion”. At 16 years of age, following Fr. Calosso’s death, John moves to Chieri where he spends 10 years attending public school and seminary. After securing a place to live, John’s first goal is to look for a regular confessor, whom he finds in Fr. Maloria, to whom he confessed every week throughout his ten years in Chieri. John describes his regular confessor as a “great good fortune” in his life who encouraged him to go to confession and communion often, “advice not too commonly given in those days”. Finally in Turin as a priest, Don Bosco confesses to Fr. Cafasso every Monday afternoon for 20 years, until Cafasso’s death in 1861. He then finds a regular weekly confessor in Fr. Gozio, who replaced Cafasso as Rector of the Convitto Ecclesiastico. He confessed to Fr. Gozio for 12 years, until the latter’s death in 1873. Finally, for the last fifteen years of his life, Don Bosco chooses his seminary friend, Fr. Francesco Giacomelli as his weekly confessor. Spiritual Paternity shared with his boys. When Don Bosco exhorts his boys to go to confession regularly and to receive the eucharist in the state of grace, he Don Bosco's wardrobe altar 24 Lulju-Settembru 2024 hajja