austraLasia 1614
[apologies for break in service of a week - was out of email contact
and often 'on foot' through Don Bosco's places in Piedmont. There
will be similar interruptions throughout July-August just depending on
email availability. Also a request for a prayer for AUL and also for
the person concerned and his family - Paul Coxhill, prenovice and a
young man, died suddenly in Melbourne of heart failure at the
weekend. He was helping conduct a retreat for youngsters at the
time]
East Timor - two newly professed offer hope in
difficult times
DILI: 24th July 2006 -- Today in the National Shrine
of Mary Help of
Christians in Fatumaca, Baucau, East Timor, Fr. Andres Calleja, the
Superior of the Vice-Province of St. Callistus Caravario, received in
the name of the Rector Major the vows of two young Salesians: Bro.
Camilo Boavida and Bro. Venancio Fatima Freitas. They made their
first
profession in the presence of their happy families, friends and
Salesian confreres. Responding to God's call, specially in the
difficult times they're living in Timor today, is not easy, but
they
were ready to offer themselves completely to God even if, in accordance
to the church's disposition, they're only making their profession for
one year. One does not give one's self to God on a "trial" basis, so
they have began to give themselves totally to God. It is interesting to
note the motto of these new Salesians: "If you save a soul, you save
everything; if you lose a soul, you lose everything." It reminds us of
Don Bosco himself who, as Don Rua said, "took no step, said no word,
took up no task that was not directed to the saving of the young ...
Truly the only concern of his heart was for souls." (C. 21).
Camilo
and Venancio came from simple Christian families and both were educated
in a real Salesian environment. They have suffered together with their
own people in a nation dominated by foreign powers for so many yars,
and now are beginning to track the difficult road to real freedom. From
the Salesian pioneers they have learned the value of work, prayer and
evangelical poverty. Now they are ready to plunge themselves to the
Salesian mission which sets the tenor of the Salesian's whole life.
(Art. 3 C).
After their profession, these new
Salesians are
now ready to go to the new Salesian postnovitiate in Dili as
candidates to Salesian priesthood and continue their initial
formation.
Meanwhile, 10 new novices enter the
Novitiate in Fatumaca to begin their Salesian religious experience.
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