“Father, I want to become a
Salesian”
Bangalore:SAR News
“Father, I want to become a
Salesian” This is the greatest aspiration of a
Pakistani Catholic youth, Frederic Aseem, who was
one the 19 Pakistani delegates to the Asian Youth Day III, being
held here these days. Aseem knelt before Bishop Vincent
Samuel of Neyattinkara, who presided over the concelebrated
Eucharist on Sunday evening at the Ascension church, St. Thomas
Town, and asked for his
blessing.
The foreign
delegates – 420 of them – who arrived here on Saturday and Sunday from
several nations in Asia - Bangladesh, Cambodia,
China-Hongkong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macao, Malesia,
Nepal, Mangolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,
Thailand, Vietnam – were excited over the rousing welcome they received from the
garden city of India Bangalore. All of them were received into 250
Catholic families in the city who gave them hospitality for the night. All
of them joined the Eucharist and songs in two parishes
to the wonder and excitement of the onlookers particularly the people of
other faiths. The chief celebrant Bishop Samuel Vincent of Neyyattinkara,
Kerala said: “We are one body of Jesus Christ, because we feed on the one bread
which is His body. We invite every one to accept Jesus Christ so that we
all make one body for the peace of the entire world.”
