Brothers follow-up: Dalat community introduces new
element into formation curriculum
DALAT: 14th September 2006 -- With the largest number of
temporary professed Brothers in the Region (15 in postnovitiate) and a
sizeable number in the Province as a whole (46, one of whom is already
a missionary in Sudan), it is understandable that Vietnam has taken
some immediate steps as a follow-up to the recent Brothers' Assembly in
Cambodia. The Brothers and a number of formators who attended
that meeting from Vietnam adopted some practical resolutions which
include:
- the choice of an appropriate reference title in
Vietnamese ('su hyunh' in romanized form)
- immediate efforts to upgrade English studies for
the Brothers, thus enabling them to take advantage of the specific
formation now on offer from the Philippines at the Parañaque Seminaryo
- urgent translation of basic texts into Vietnamese,
including local translations of materials concerning the vocation as a
Salesian Brother
- re-echoing the Assembly for the 32 Brothers in the
Province who were unable to attend the gathering Cambodia
- preparation of some fliers to promote the vocation
of the Brother.
The Dalat community is the first of the EAO
formation communities to tackle a new 'subject' or element in the three
year postnovitiate curriculum - the Salesian Brother. This is
based on the structure of the famous 'Golden Book' published in 1989
from Rome on the Salesian Brother.
In a recent sharing on the life and experience of
the Brother from the point of view of those in the postnovitiate, young
Brothers expressed their greater sense of confidence about their
vocation, stemming from careful and appropriate formation and advice
from their superiors. They recognised the need to overcome what
they call 'the linguistic challenge', language which tends to harp on
inequality and to confuse the true identity of Don Bosco's 'secular
arm' as a Korean Province video on the Brother puts it. They also
spoke of the importance of living up to the standard of their identity.
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