Volunteers with Don Bosco (CDB) present the Institute in
Vietnam
HCM City: 5th September 2007 -- The Volunteers With Don
Bosco (CDB or 'con Don Bosco') are a male Salesian branch of
consecrated lay persons, around 70 in number, but slowly increasing in
numbers in the EAO Region, where there vocational efforts were first
fruitful in Korea in 1999. IN recent weeks they have had the
opportunity to present their Secular Institute to the various branches
of the Salesian Family in Vietnam.
The CDB representative focused his conferences on
some of the well-known models of Salesianity and on the nature of
various vocations ot consecrated life. He found people interested and
attentive.
In particular there was a meeting with a Salesian
bishop in the Hanoi region, which was an opportunity to explain aspects
of the CDB Constitutions and the steps of discernment involved in
becoming a member of the Institute. There has already been an
expression of interest on the part of one or more potential candidates
from Vietnam.
The visitor, of course, did not speak Vietnamese,
but he found an immediate welcome from the Salesian Provincial of
Vietnam, who putaside a number of his own tasks to accompany him and
also arranged for interpreters elsewhere.
One of the striking features of Catholic life in
Vietnam, for the visitor, was the openness to and obvious fruitfulness
of vocation to consecrated life. As he put it: "Religious vocation sin
this country, whether to male or female groups, are very many.
This is the case for all Orders or Congregations. The Salesian
Sisters were very happy to meet me and to hear about the CDB. I
was able to be present for the perpetual profession ceremony of 12 of
the Sisters". He then concludes:
"I am confident our Institute will receive vocations
in this land of Vietnam too. I am grateful to those who made this
visit possible and who gave the CDB a chance to witness to their
vocation 'with Don Bosco'".
A quick check in the austraLasia collection of
sdl.sdb.org with a search on CDB will indicate other news items
concerning this group in the region (for those items thus far complete
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