austraLasia #2025

SDB and FMA 'Cooperator' Delegates invited to attend Macau Formation meeting

ROME: 11th January 2008 -- The EAO Regional Councillor has recently sent out an invitation, via provincials, for SDB Delegates around the EAO Region to attend the Formation meeting for Delegates which runs back-to-back with the Macau Congress. The Congress runs from 22-25 May, while the Formation meeting for Delegates commences on the 25th and goes till 27th May.
    With the completely renewed Project of Life (PAL) now similar in structure to the SDB Constitutions and Regulations, the revocation of an earlier memorandum of Agreement between SDB and FMA, now incorporated fully into the PAL itself.  In fact, the Rector Major and Mother General, in a joint letter in April to all Delegates SDB and FMA, point out that "Every Salesian community (SDB and FMA), provincial and local, is involved in the task, as set out by St. John Bosco from the beginning, of 'supporting and giving increase to' the Association, by contributing to the formation of its members and by making their Project of Life known".
    The deadline for registration for the Delegates' Formation meeting is 31st January.
    The new PAL is available in English from at least two sites.  It can be purchased cheaply as a professionally published book from http://www.lulu.com/content/1697620 or downloaded as a pdf for free from that same time.  It can also be downloaded in Word format from Bosconet.  Certainly the PAL as it now stands needs to be known and studied, not only by the Salesian Cooperators, but by individual Salesians and Salesian Sisters.  In addition to the English version, the Thai and Japanese versions are also available - certainly the latter is available on SDL already and it is expected that the Thai version will be available shortly in the Thai Collection on SDL. (please note that from 10 pm Friday 11th to 6 am Saturday 12th Melbourne time, Bosconet, but not SDL, will be temporarily unavailable for maintenance purposes)·
    The aim of the Macau Delegates Formation meeting will be to raise awareness amongst SDBs and FMAs of the major changes which have taken place in the Salesian Cooperator movement and the essential 'return to Don Bosco' of which it is also a part, along with the entire Salesian Family.  But additionally, the meeting will clarify the 'job description' of the Delegate now, and attempt to draw up an outline of a formation programme for local delegates.
    The invitation letter which has gone to provincials also contains a number of general and some particular questions by way of a brief survey, the analysis of which is expected to assist the formation gathering.  A number of responses to this survey have already begun to arrive in Rome.
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Title: australasia 2025
Subject and key words: Salesian Family, Salesian Cooperators
Date (year): 2008
ID: 2000-2099|2025