austraLasia 1412
Mamma Margaret in Japanese edition for Don Bosco's
Feast day, and also in Vietnamese
TOKYO: 28th January 2006 -- Don Bosco Sha, the
Salesian publishers in Tokyo, have published an attractive edition of
Fr Peter Lappin's Sunshine in the Shadows, a life of Mamma
Margaret. In Vietnam, they have taken the DVD film version of
Mamma Margaret produced by Elledici some years back and provided a
voice-over in Vietnamese. It is likely, too, that the more recent
printed version of MM, as well as being published in English shortly,
will also find its way into several of the Asian languages.
The idea for the Lappin version in Japanese came
from a group of Cooperators, who wanted to have something they could
read about Don Bosco's first Cooperator, his mother. Fr Matsuo,
the vice provincial, took on the task of translation, and the text was
first launched on the province website. Many viewers on the site
passed positive comments on it and requested that it find its way into
a printed version.
At that point the Association of Salesian Schools,
the province level animation group for Salesian schools, with heads of
Colleges and all Salesian schools right down to kindergarten level took
up the question of financing and distributing the printed
publication. As a result every family with a child in a Salesian
school in Japan will receive a free copy, if they haven't already
received it. 'Free', but the schools pay an amount per head to
the Association of Salesian Schools for precisely this kind of
thing. It's a good idea. Mamma Margaret is number ten in a
series, now, meaning that every year a family receives a Salesian
document of one or another kind ot help them in their educational or
spiritual tasks as family.
The Vietnamese effort is similar, although it is not
something directed to schools, these being relatively few in
number. Instead, a copy of the DVD and a brochure to go with it
has gone to all members of the Salesian Family.
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