ROME: 12 April 2011 -- Apologies to those who have
asked for various things over recent days. it has
simply been wall-to-wall meetings in various parts of the
world for the past three weeks, and as anyone who has to do
that sort of thing knows, one has to hit the ground running
in each place. it's time to say thanks to confreres
throughout our region and our neighbours (South Asia) who
have attended and helped organise these gatherings,
contributed so much, and not occasionally realised that
those who have travelled long distances through time zones
might in fact be a little tired and not at their top.
Thanks to everyone. As has been said along the way,
this series of meetings (the first of many to cover the
entire Salesian world and present the renewed and so far
very well accepted Salesian Social Communication System) has
been the best we can recall in recent times. Clearly
good messages are coming through from both directions and
together making something of a forward and very positive
movement in a world that has changed so much in a decade,
what with technological advances, wikileaks (advanced or
retrograde as you may consider it( and whatever.
In all of this maybe some news items have slipped up - not
been received or maybe they were not sent? Was unable to
report on Don Bosco in MYM since as yet, other than a brief
note from the Archbishop, who pointed out that there were
many thousands who gathered at the Cathedral, grateful and
joyful at being able to be around 'Don Bosco', I am not
aware of other news items that have reached my inbox.
It is never too late! Others have asked for things to
be done - could they wait just a few more days till the last
of the present series of meetings is over? Then I'll get
back to you.
Some might have heard that the Australian Provincial, Fr
Frank Moloney, has a little miracle of his own to be
thankful for. Several days ago he was in a line of
traffic, stationery, minding his own business, when another
vehicle came out of nowhere at right angles and hit him full
pelt. He has come out of that better than his vehicle!
No major physical injury - a but shaken up, and in future,
no doubt, even more aware of the fragility of life!
The miscreant was 'off her face', all drugged up and hardly
aware of what she was doing - or could have done!
Korea Province has any number of missionaries back home -
from Cambodia, Malawi, the Philippines, just to mention
three that come to mind. ti is a vibrant province, and
the memory, indeed the phenomenon of Fr John lee who died a
year or so back at a young age (he was a missionary in the
Sudan) is very strong. There are literally thousands
of people of all ages who are 'following' him, supporting
the work he started, being spiritually inspired, inspiring
others - and the evidence is that all this is also bringing
vocational interest of a very solid kind. God bless
these good missionaries amongst us and healthy, or now
elderly but still an inspiration, or who have passed to
their reward and still do good on earth.
And now its off to Genzano for the European gathering
communications delegates and Project Europe reference
persons - all in together! A three-ringed
circus? We hope not. Here too we hope for good
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