4679_Salesians and Lay Mission Partners explore Don Bosco Pedagogy
EAO Salesianity Seminar - Year 2: Don Bosco Pedagogy
March 25, 2018
By By Fr. Francis Gustilo, SDB
Paranaque, the Phiippines, 24 March 2018 -- One year after the succesfull first edition of EAO Salesianity Seminar - Workshop 2017, the Don Bosco Center of Studies in Paranaque is ready to welcome the second batch heading from most of the EAO provinces. Fr. Francis Gustilo, Director of this course shares his welcome with the EAO provincials and delegates:
"Wishes for a very Spirit-filled HOLY WEEK 2018! Just a little less than a month before the holding of the EAO Salesian Studies Seminar-Workshop on DON BOSCO and HIS PEDAGOGY, I have the good pleasure to send you the complete list of the participants from nearly all of our EAO Provinces, Vice Provinces and Delegations plus a participant each from French Speaking West Africa Province (AFO) and from Mumbai-India (INB).
There are 13 lay mission partners (9 of which come from THA Province, 3 from PGS Vice Province and 1 from FIS), 2 Salesian laybrothers (CIN and Indonesia Delegation), 2 clerics (Cambodia Delegation and ITM) and 27 priests, making a total of 44 participants.
We will be having seven SDB resource persons: two from FIS Province, namely Fr Orlando Borres (SThL in Salesianity from UPS) and Fr Fidel Orendain SDB (Masters in Communication from Georgetown University) and five from FIN namely Fr Eligio Cruz (former FIN Provincial and a formator of the FIN-FIS Post-novitiate community), Fr Vicente Cervania (SThL in Catechetics from UPS), Fr Martin Macasaet (SThD in Youth Ministry from UPS), Fr Renato de Guzman (SThD in Catechetics and Pastoral Communications from UPS) and myself (SThD in Salesianity from UPS).
We, however, are closing the acceptance of any other participant because we have just enough rooms complete with toilet and bath and the logistical requirements of board and travel have reached its full-capacity.We need to have extra hands to prepare the meals and to do the laundry as well as to provide the vehicles to transport them for a half-day immersion in the Tuloy sa Don Bosco Streetchildren Village and a whole day relaxation-excursion.
On behalf of the Don Bosco Center of Srudies Community of theology professors, I would like to thank you for your support and trust. We will give our best in terms of quality service: both academically and fraternally."
The Provincial of Thailand - Cambodia - Laos, Fr. John Bosco Theparat is sending for the first time a large group of Lay Mission Partners:
"We have a Thai saying - 'a bit late will get a fruitful result'. I'm sending at the last moment a name-list of the 9 participants from Thailand... They are all lay people from all our schools and never travel abroad for a long period like this. So, we need certain attitude of "wait and see" to encourage them to join the seminar. We hope if we send lay people every year, soon we will have a big group of efficient lay partners more identified with Don Bosco and his Preventive System.'
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