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New Vice Province to offer first two missionaries
ODXEL-GOA: 12th June 2005 -- The Superior of the
Vice Province of India-Panjim (INP), a Salesian circumscription
which came into being only in 2004 after being hived
off from Mumbai Province, has announced that in the new year the
first two young missionaries will receive their mandate.
On the occasion of the Rector Major's visit to India
for the South Asian region Team Visit, the Indian provinces made an
offer of 25 missionaries as a centenary gift, and a number of provinces
have already announced their candidates. Now it is the turn of
INP. Both students for the priesthood, Cl.
Philip Fernandes and Cl. Jacinto Dias
have generously volunteered their lives as missionaries. Bro
Philip is finishing his Practical Training, while Bro Jacinto is
preparing for Diaconate. Both missionary candidates will be given
their missionary mandate in the Indian context at the conclusion of the
Centenary Year in February 2006. At this stage it is likely that
Bro. Philip will go to Sudan. Bro Jacinto's missionary
appointment is yet to be announced.
Fr Loddy Pires, Vice Province Superior, also
announced 3 newly professed for the Vice Province, 6 novices and 7
pre-novices. The area of the INP circumscription covers not only
the well-known but geographically small Goa region, but the very large
Karnataka region as well. With approximately 70 members, it is small by
Indian Salesian Province standards, but rich in the extent and
intensity of its works.
VOCABULARY
circumscription: in the canonical sense,
as used here, any province or vice province or other area. The
more special Salesian meaning would be an area directly under the
responsibility of the Rector Major or his appointee. This meaning
does not apply here.
Cl.: Abbreviation for 'cleric'. The
term would be canonically accurate only for the second-named, but most
Indian provinces have adopted the reference and its abbreviation as a
convention for ease of separate reference to priestly and lay
candidates.
hive off: split off, break off from a
group.
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