615 India SDB West e-zine launched
'austraLasia' #615
CONGRATULATIONS TO MUMBAI PROVINCE FOR THEIR E-ZINE INITIATIVE.
 
 

**** 20th June 2002  ***** Vol I. Issue No: 1 ****

 
 
INTRODUCING THE SDB West e-zine
Fr. Darryl D'Souza

Dear Confreres,
 
Greetings from the SDB West team. Aaj chi tazza khabar! Aichi ununit khobor!! We are happy to inform you that the Social Communications Commission has planned SDB West, the newsletter of our province in two forms. First, the Newsletter as a web page will be sent to all the houses on the house e-mail address every month. This will contain news only thus providing you with news fresh and crisp. It will be published from Tej-Prasarini and Fr. Jose Sequeira will be the editor along with the Don Bosco Information Service (DBIS) team.
 
The second form is a printed booklet which will provide opinions, views and comments exclusively. It will be published from Don Bosco Youth Centre, Koregaon Park and Fr. Cletus D'Souza will be it's editor along with a team of brothers studying theology.
 
I request you to kindly print the SDB West e-zine and put it on your notice board. Your articles, feedback, opinions, views and comments on the topics coming forth or on any issues you consider important are our valueble treasure.
 
EXAMPLE OF ARTICLES FROM THE ABOVE:
1.  
TEJ-PRASARINI RELEASES MULTIMEDIA CD, MARY
by Fr. Darryl D'Souza, Tej-prasarini

Tej-Prasarini, Don Bosco Communications released an interactive multimedia CD named Mary on the Feast of Mary Help of Christians at the hands of Rev. Fr. Joseph Casti, Rector, Shrine of Don Bosco's Madonna amids a crowd of 2000 people on the Don Bosco Provincial House grounds. The idea of such a CD was conceived by Fr. Edwin Colaco and the Liturgical animations and Marian Presentation were scripted by him. The CD contains Music videos, flash presentations, liturgical animations and 100 photos of our lady. Priced at Rs. 125/- it is available at Trj-Prasarini Bookshop and is a useful kit for learning, refrence, liturgical animation or just to draw inspiration from.
 
2.      The following is a re-run from an earlier 'austraLAsia' but please not the correction of the URL (Web address):
DON BOSCO'S MADONNA ONLINE
by Fr. Ian Doulton, DB Provincial House

Don Bosco's Madonna, the monthly magazine that began as a humble leaflet in 1937 is known to be the largest circulating Catholic Periodical in India and more, it is now online. His Eminence Cardinal Ivan Dias of the Archdiocese of Bombay launched the Don Bosco's Madonna website by a click on the mouse in the presence of the Salesian Provincial Fr. Ivo Coelho, Vice Provincial Fr. Adolph Furtado and the magazine and website editor, Fr. Ian Doulton at the shrine office in Matunga, Mumbai recently.The address of the site: http://www.donboscosmadonna.faithweb.com