ROME: 4th January 2006 -- austraLasia has already received
queries concerning this year's strenna. Here is an attempt to
answer those queries. Please make this available in communities
and pass it around, to save the need for more answers at this end, if
you could.
The Rector Major's video presentation of the
Strenna, available in seven languages (German and Polish in addition to
English, Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese) is available on a DVD
which is being mass-produced and distributed from Missioni Don Bosco in
Turin. The mass-production has been completed but not the
packaging and distribution. Word is that it will reach Rome by
15th January and will be distributed to communities throughout the
world by 31st January. In addition to the presentation of the
actual commentary on the strenna, the DVD contains a number of spoken
testimonies to the contents by members of families from various parts
of the world. There are too many of these for a single sitting;
the idea is that people would make a choice of these to suit their own
circumstances.
The first part of the DVD has the RM in the
foreground speaking aginst several live presentations from different
parts of the world, and the old black and white movie of Don Bosco
which many remember with great nostalgia. The 'witness' section
lasts 34 minutes and there are some 40 couples to choose from.
Three of these are from our region - one from the Philippines and two
from Korea. These segments are grouped around some basic themes,
and effectively become video clips usable for discussions on things
like family in crisis, working families, traditional values endangered,
family contribution to society and church, family and faith, prayer,
vocation, education, children, the Preventive System, children as God's
gift, Mamma Margaret, media and family, divorce, death.
In the meantime, the commentary itself is available
through www.sdb.org and Bosconet has a Power Point version of the
strenna message which is useful for simple presentations.
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