austraLasia 851
East Asia-Australia: Doctors and
Masters
ROME: 5th June '04 -- Monday, 6th June, sees a number of
confreres from the East Asia Australasia Region defending theses. Fr.
Joseph Do (VIE) is defending his doctoral thesis in Canon Law (CIN) at the
UPS. At least three others from the region, Fr. Joel Canaya (FIN), Fr.
Jang Paul (KOR) and Fr. Shinjiro Urata (GIA) are defending Masters theses in
philosophy, youth ministry and spirituality respectively.
Fr. Lanfranco Fedrigotti (CIN) will defend his doctoral thesis at the
Biblicum (Pontificium Institutum Biblicum de Urbe), Rome, on 11th June.
His is an exegetical study of Matthew 9:14 and its nuptial imagery. His
fundamental question concerns the meaning of the imagery - is Jesus applying it
to himself, or in some messianic sense to Jerusalem/Zion/Holy Land, or even
in a further, transcendent sense as if it is Yahweh the bridegroom of
Israel/Jersualem? As abstruse as these considerations might initially
seem, they have implications for the way we presently live (and celebrate) our
Easter faith.
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