Vatican City, Vietnam, Chennai:
30 June
2012 -- The common thread might seem
episcopal, but it is
more a case of vocation and evangelisation.
Two Vietnamese Salesians were
ordained priest
last week by Archbishop Savio Hon, Secretary of the
Congregation for
the Evangelisation of Peoples. The two young Salesians, Fr
Dominic Tran
Quang Hien, and Fr Joachim Nguyen Thanh Tung, have worked
(Practical
Training) and studied in Italian provinces and will continue
their
post-ordination studies there before returning to Vietnam.
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Archbishops Francesco Panfilo (Rabaul, PNG)
and
Timothy Costelloe (Perth. Australia), received the pallium or
woollen
band or stole made from freshly woven wool, from Pope Benedict
XVI at
St Peter's Basilica, on 29 June.
The pallium is a symbol of the
Archbishop's
metropolitan office, binding him closely to the Successor of
Peter. The
prayer the Pope uses as he places the stole on the Archbishop
runs as
follows: May this
Pallium be for
you a symbol of unity and a token (the word he uses
is 'tessera') of
communion with the Apostolic See; may it be a bond of
charity and a spur of fortitude, so that in the day of the
Coming
and the revelation of the great God and prince of shepherds
Jesus
Christ, you may together with the the flocks entrusted to
you obtain the stole of immortality and glory.
A 'tessera' is the name given to the small
piece of
stone that makes up the ancient mosiacs that dot the Eternal
City. Even
in Italian, today, it is a word which implies an official ID
card, or
ticket to something, but its 'mosaic' meaning is especially
significant
in the context of the Church Universal. The ceremony was
placed
before the celebration of the Eucharist for the first time,
obviously
to separate it from being confused with the sacramental
action.
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The opening of the Chennai-based missionary
aspirantate, the second such institution opened in Salesian
India in
the space of a year, is particularly significant not just for
India but
for the Congregation. These aspirantates take us back to
the
Cagliero Institute at Ivrea from whence many a Salesian
missionary was
sent forth, including many in our own Region.
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UPDATE ON FR BORTOLO FEDRIGOTTI.
Some details on Fr Bortolo Fedrigotti were
missing
from central archives, but kept faithfully in AUL! Just
to repeat
the details with the missing items now correctly filled in:
Born in 1899 at Tiarno (Trento) Italy
1919 - Professed as a Salesian (Yugoslavia)
1925 - Ordained a priest (new York)
1929 - Arrived in Australia - Sunbury
1947 - Rector at Oakleigh
1949 - Provincial Delegate
1954 - Salesian Visitor
1958 - Provincial
1964 - Passed away in Melbourne (23rd March)
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