CEBU: 1st February 2006 -- As a follow up to #1334 (Nov
21st) which you can check in Bosconet
for background, especially for the fuller meaning of CLAY, a lay-run
Salesianity programme, comes the following interesting and potentially
very useful information for other provinces, should they wish to avail
themselves of the material being produced.
On the morning of the Feast of Don Bosco, in the
presence of the Provincial of the Southern Philippines Province, Fr
Julius Sanchez, the Vice Provincial Fr Ronel Vilbar, Mrs Lori who
manages DBCLAY, a member of the office staff and four other members of
the core group, all lay people (Cooperator, Past Pupil, Damas
Salesianas, Mamma Margaret Group), the DBCLAY 2005 evaluation and 2006
programme was given to Fr Klement, Regional Councillor for EAO.
The 2005 'harvest' is impressive: forming formators
continues regularly, weekly in fact. SDB novices have now been
included in the Saturday sessions, to the mutual enrichment of
all. Ongoing formation is based mainly on the Memoirs of the
Oratory, chapter by chapter, through reports by novices and lay
participants. There have been eight youth encounter programmes,
each lasting for three days. As part of this there has been the
formation of youth group leaders for Salesian as well as non-Salesian
schools and parishes. Five retreats were offered to diocesan
seminarians, parents from Salesian schools or training centres. They
also offered an Advent programme. Five basic Salesianity
programmes have been on offer - one day programmes, level one and two,
for DB school parents, DB parish staff, DBTI teaching and auxiliary
staff. An additional programme was a human sexuality programme
and a team building workshop.
In 2006, the entire programme will move from its
current location at Punta Princessa (DBTC grounds) to Talisay
City-Lawaan formation house, which involves pre-novitiatie, novitiate,
retreat house. A new third batch of 'form the formators' will
begin, and a Salesian Spirituality formation programme for Talisay
City, open to the twenty or so other religious communities based
there. Also planned is a programme for catechesis for Talisay
youth via an oratory-youth centre at Lawaan. The levels 3-10
modules for the Salesianity programme will be developed this year, and
the entire set then presented to Rectors towards the end of 2006.
DBCLAY's regular monthly visits to the Cebu Juvenile
Prison enables formators to be in touch with youth at risk. In a
new direction altogether, the DBCLAY programmes will also be offered to
the coporate world - Salesian spirituality for employee and staff human
and team building. Should this venture succeed, it will provide a
source of income for a programme which up till now has no income source
of its own.
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