"I, Thomas...": PNG insight into vocation promotion
VUNABOSCO (Kokopo PNG): 20th August 2007 -- Six
final year students out of a group of twelve who belong to the
Vunabosco Agrotech school community Year 12 vocation group, applied
formally for entry into the Salesian aspirantate in PNG at a ceremony
on 19th August celebrating 'Don Bosco Day'. The celebrations might
normally take place on 16th August, Don Bosco's birthday, but the
school moved this to the 19th this year. The ceremony of application
took place during the Eucharist celebrated on that day and before
hundreds of schoolmates, family and friends.
Because of the intense and obviously fruitful
vocational promotion work done at Vunabosco (there are vocation groups
at various levels in the school with 10-15 boys in each) it has been
identified as the pre-aspirantate community for the Delegation.
There are just four Salesians in the community, including two practical
trainees (one from Indonesia, one local).
'Thomas', one of those who applied, offers an
example of the kind of life story one finds in this context. He had
spent two years at the Salesian school in Kumgi in the Central
Highlands, and has now completed his two final years at Vunabosco on
New Britain. He is one of 600 students there, 200 of whom are
boarders. Thomas, who begins his application with "I, Thomas...",
goes on to point out that he was "moved by the ways and actions of some
Salesians" in both Kumgi and Kokopo, and that these "really struck my
heart to be part of the family".
If Thomas is successful in his application, he will
go on to Don Bosco Technical Institute in Port Moresby where he will
indeed become an aspirant and begin the long road towards his dream of
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