austraLasia
#2384 KOR province expresses great hopes for communications
future
SEOUL: 23rd March 2009 -- Welcoming Social Communications
Delegates to Seoul, yesterday 22nd March, Fr Stefano Nam, Provincial of
Korea Province, expressed keen interest in and strong hopes for the
role of social communications in his own province and for the entire
Salesian region. He was welcoming Fr Filiberto Gonzalez, the SC
Councillor from Rome, Fr Andrew Wong, EAO Regional, who flew up from
Australia where he is carrying out the Extraordinary Visitation, and
delegates and team members from every province and circumscription in
the region, along with two team members from Rome.
Fr Nam expressed his thoughts using a
hardware-software metaphor, saying that we are, in general,
well-equipped in communications terms but what we need to build now is
the 'software' of Salesian values and people to make it work. Fr
Filiberto, in turn, placed two great tasks before delegates - that of
realising the GC26 as document and spirit which, he indicated, has
everything to do with social communications, and lies behind all
planning for the period 2008-14, and the SC Department's own plans for
the same period, and all this with a clear realisation that social
communications is not a sector apart, but a dimension deep within the
Salesian mission. He expressed great joy and confidence in seeing the
array of experience and good will represented in the delegates present.
The meeting, which we will report on further towards
its conclusion on 25th, aims to build on the sense of Region that EAO
has developed in the few short years of its existence, in particular
through the role that social communications plays at the heart of its
mission. In fact, Fr Wong indicated the value of such regional
gatherings as this, in that they share and plan for the benefit of each
province in the region; stronger provinces mean a stronger region, and
stronger regions mean a stronger Congregation, as he put it. _________________ AustraLasia is an
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Title: australasia 2384
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Date (year): 2009
ID: 2000-2099|2384
