austraLasia #3409
Some Regional items
ROME: 3 April 2014 -- While the Chapter is working on
the final document - and that's in some respects a tedious
operation that doesn't have good news value as they go
through it (it will when it's finished), it might be time to
take a quick look at some items from around the Region that
have come in.
Deaths:
Fr Peter Ho (CIN)
Birthdays: a 101 and a 99 - also CIN
25th anniversaries - including Bro Raymond Callo, invitee to GC27
from FIN
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Fr Peter Ho
Fr PEter Ho Kuang-Ling, a former Provincial of CIN, an
most recently resident in Macau, has passed away at the age of
85.
Significant milestones
Fr Ernesto Rescalli, 101 years old
Fr Gaetano Nicosia, 99
Both of CIN, chalking up a neat 200 years of missionary
service in their Province.
25 years of profession - Don
Bosco Batulao, Nasugbu Batangas, and Rome, GC27
Fr Fernando Urbano, SDB and Fr Edwin Ulanday, SDB solemnly
reaffirmed their profession of faith to the Salesian life
after 25 years. They prayed once more in front of the altar,
the formula for profession during the morning mass of the
second day of the annual retreat for the FIN Salesians at the
Mary Help of Christians Center for Spirituality, Batulao,
Nasugbu, Batangas.
Fr Urbano, presiding at the mass, invited the confreres
present to pray for those who are celebrating the silver
jubilee year of their religious profession. Aside from himself
and Fr Ulanday, they include: Fr. Ramon Antonio Aldana, Fr
Daniel Dadule, and Br Raymond Callo (attending GC27) from FIN;
and Br. Mari Aberasturi, and Fr. Ramon Pacada from FIS.
FIN is currently having the first of three batches of the
annual retreat. Following the Church's thrust for the laity,
the conferences are given by laypeople who are active in the
Church and are well-experienced in theeir topics:
- DB Disciple of St. Francis of Sales / Constant listening to
God and Man
- DB, the young, and the Family / Spirituality of
Relationships
- DB with the Salesian Family in the World / Commitment in the
Church for the World
- DB and Good Citizenry / Spirituality of Daily Life and Work
- DB and His Devotions / Devotions to Mary and the Eucharist
