637 AUl pastoral Animation Team
AUS: PASTORAL ANIMATION TEAM
 
MELBOURNE: 18th Nov: -- The Australian Province Pastoral Animation Team (PAT) has announced in the PAT e-letter that a Pastoral Formation site has been set up which presently offers a full set of materials to help with the four Sundays of Advent Year B: readings, commentaries, and a family liturgy with children for each of the Sundays.  This material can be accessed via Bosconet at http://www.bosconet.aust.com/pastform/advent_year_b.htm
 
ZATTI MATERIAL
The item included recently on Saleisan Beati, taken from the San Francisco Salesian Bulletin, includes reference to the 'present' Rector Major, Fr. Juan Vecchi.  That of course should now be altered to the 'former' Rector Major....
 
A SALESIAN MURDERED IN JOHANNESBURG?
This item is yet to be confirmed, but news picked up here locally (Fiji) suggests that a Salesian may have lost his life at the hands of thugs in Johnnesburg.  More on this if news confirms this situation.