austraLasia 1063
Crucial moments in Team Visit
dynamic
NEW DELHI: 4th March 2005 -- The South Asia
Region Team Visit has entered the crucial stage where participants meet in
groups to 'envision the future'. Each of the 12 Councils has also met
separately with the Rector Major.
The groups envisioning the future as a Region are
spending four sessions taking up four clusters of issues: the primacy of God
(led by Fr Joaquim D'Souza, Regional), the planning mentality (led by Fr Anthony
Domenech, Youth Ministry Councillor), formation (Led by Fr Francis Cereda,
Formation Councillor) and regional networking (led by Fr Francis Alencherry,
Missions Councillor).
The formation cluster is particularly focused on the
Salesian Brother, on vocation promotion. The networking under
consideration in the fourth session is networking between provinces and at the
wider regional level, in view of evangelisation.
Meanwhile a range of other events and other
visitors surrounds the central event of the Team Visit: the group of 20 INN
prenovices with their formator have come and gone, on a journey there and back
to their house which entailed some 40 hours of travelling by vehicle. Fr
Alencherry farewelled them this morning by celebrating Mass before their
departure. At the same time the Rector Major celebrated Mass for the
Boarders at the School.
Elsewhere in ANS one can read of yesterday's visit
to the Gandhi Memorial. The RM quoted Gandhi's Seven Social sins as still
being a relevant list today. Those '7 sins' (a useful website for
follow-up is
www.gandhisamardhi.org
) are: 1. Politics without principles 2. Wealth without work 3. Pleasure without
conscience 4. Knowledge without character 5. Commerce without morality 6.
Science without humanity 7. Worship without sacrifice.
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