austraLasia #2306

Useful Advent Resource

MELBOURNE: 7th December 2008 -- While there's a lull in news arrival (though, to be sure there would be no lull in things happening around the region!), here is an item which will be useful during the Advent season.
    The Province of Mary Help of Christians (Aus-Pacific) website is featuring, amidst its resources, a series of pamphlets in pdf format, for each week of Advent.  Prepared by Fr Germano Baiguini, they are available for download if you go to the 'resources' tab on www.sdb.org.au
    Other bits and pieces from around the Region on this 2nd Sunday of Advent?  Within a few moments the Provincial of Korea, Fr Stephen Nam, will be arriving in Rome to begin the course for new provincials which is run under the aegis of the General Council twice yearly. The other recently appointed EAO Provincial, Fr Eli Cruz from FIN will be attending the June 2009 course.
    You might be interested in one follow-up to the 'They have no wine' story about Cremisan's difficulties exporting wine. One local newspaper in the UK ran a similar story suggesting, from its headline that the Israeli Army considered 'the school's holy wine to be a security risk'. Bad journalism! Further down in the article the truth was made clearer, but not yet clear enough: "The Israeli Army is stopping the wine being exported because the drink, it says, constituted a 'security risk'." We are still not clear, not even from the original source, why a beverage can be a security risk! The article also referred to "The Salesians of Don Bosoc" (sic)!  And what began badly finished badly - the last line reads 'that nobody at the school was available for comment'.  Would you blame them? They possibly knew nothing about the whole event!
   
    We are one the eve of December 8th, the Immaculate Conception. Happy feast day to all!

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Title: australasia 2306
Subject and key words: SDB General Advent...
Date (year): 2008
ID: 2000-2099|2306