austraLasia #2155
Happy Feastday!
FIS: Communications and Formation partnership for Salesianity
and Spirituality
TALISAY
CITY (Cebu): 24th May 2008 -- Don Bosco Formation Centre in Talisay
City near Cebu, Philippines, in partnership with the Don Bosco
Technology Centre, is moving step by step to realize a vision of
establishing an Institute for Salesianity and Spirituality to cater to
the needs of Salesians, seminarians, lay people and religious.
The two houses have partnered to introduce a new tertiary degree
course: a Bachelor in Arts with Majors in Religious Education and
Pastoral Communication.
While enrolled at the DBTC students, most of them candidates for
Salesian life at present, will hold their classes in the Don Bosco
Formation Centre. The two institutions are strategically placed in that
they are surrounded by formation centres belonging to other Religious
Congregations, and there is already a lay-based formation centre for
Salesianity, with strong Salesian guidance (known as DB-CLAY, cf
earlier austraLasia items #1421/1767).
Other students, lay ministers from surrounding parishes have also
expressed strong interest in the course.
The move comes from the felt need to provide a more formative
environment for Salesian candidates/aspirants: to design a curriculum
that lines up with the needs of the pastoral work they are choosing to
go into; to emphasize a more relevant evangelization and education
through communication.
Complementing the re-inforced program for Religious Education is the
lineup of Pastoral Communication subjects aimed at honing skills and
offering theory for more effective ministry. The course will include
subjects such as theory and processes of communication, communication
and social change, socio-pastoral communication, ethics of
communication, mass media: radio-tv-film, computer-based design and
print, new media.
It goes without saying that at this point the
Salesians are looking for support through donation of books and
equipment. Interested sponsors and donors can contact Fr Fidel Orendain
at dbfiscom@yahoo.com or if you have nothing material to offer, then at
least some ideas and a word of support! It is to be hoped that
they will not overlook one line in the recent GC26 document which
encourages us to look at 'open' approaches including open
source/Free-libre software.
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Title: australasia 2155
Subject and key words: EAO Provinces FIS Salesianity and Spirituality
Date (year): 2008
ID: 2000-2099|2155
