2559 Resources 150th
austraLasia #2559
 

Young - and not so young - Salesians to the rescue!

THE WORLD: 15th December 2009 -- With the 18th December just a few days off, and Salesians gearing up for a special and profound moment of personal and public profession to recognise the birth of our Congregation, and to return to what moved those first 18 people, the reader might like to follow the various links or other references indicated below.
    It is interesting the number of young and not so young Salesians who have been in touch to offer something that they would like to share with the Congregation, so there's a bit of something for everyone below.
    Philosophy students from Karunapuram, Warangal, Hyderabad province (INH), have prepared a series of prayer events starting precisely today, 15th and leading into the 18th.  Elements of these prayers may be useful in community.  They are available on SDL in the Resources collection (subject 150th). Thanks to these good young men and to Bro Vincent Castilino who runs the 'Drop of Honey' Blog on sdb.org for sending these along.
    Bro Philip Bua from AFW, a Nigerian Salesian currently in Practical Training, has prepared a PPT presentation (actually in PPS format) on Don Rua but it's also just as applicable to the 150th.  Because SDL separates music and ppt files, you may need to download both separately and just ensure they are in the same folder.  It's very nicely done and Philip is to be congratulated for this effort.  Again it's in the resources collection if you go 'Creators' and look for 'Philip Bua', and if you want the music (Bright eyes!) to go with it, then here it is. because it's a WMA file you could also search for it under 'formats' - it's the only wma file we have there.
    We have already indicated Fr Marc Barry's (AUL) preparation of phrases from the Constitutions, visible from sdb.org here.  These javascript files can now be found on any number of Salesian English-language websites around the world.  Marc has also prepared them in laminated form on blue card with the idea that they could be put into a fishbowl and then placed somewhere for people to choose one at appropriate moments.  we have the 'finished' version of these laminated bits here but that's not much use to the rest of you.  The idea is well worth taking up, though.  So we gave some thought to other ways of tackling this idea and came up with a special FOCUS for the 18th which should be published on sdb.org tonight, Rome time.  Just look for the home page of www.sdb.org and go FOCUS.  We have chosen some 50 phrases from the Constitutions and a photo to go with them, chosen by the man behind all the good photos on sdb.org!  Bro Hilario Seo from KOR province.  And of course there's the Flash (swf) banner on sdb.org.  Should you want that you need only ask for it and we can give it to you.
    There's more but that's possibly enough for the moment.  Enjoy!  And feel very free to share other resources, since it is so easy to help lots of people this way.  Whatever one person spends time preparing for his local situation is bound to be helpful to someone else in another place, and austraLasia is very happy to play a role in moving these things around.
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correction on the correct title for VIS mentioned in #2558: Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo (instead of 'Salesiano' which seemed obvious but it aint so!)

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Title: australasia 2559
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Date (year): 2009
ID: 2000-2099|2559