austraLasia #2346
DB Day around the region
PAKKRED (THA): 30th January 2009 -- 'Gratitude Day' they
call it, at the conclusion of the Novena to St John Bosco. All the
blind students at the Skills Develpment Centre for the Blind gathered
to pray and sing in honour of Don Bosco and listen to Fr John Somchart
read some significant pages from Don Bosco's life followed by a
commentary by Fr Charles Velardo. The afternoon was dedicated, in truly
Salesian fashion, to sports activities. Athletes from the Centre have
recently participated in the national games for the disabled where they
took out 12 Gold, 15 Silver and 10 Bronze in Track and Field, Judo,
Swimming and Goalball. Earlier, Fr Charles tells us, on 19th December,
the blind cyclists joined the Tour de Thailand for 100
kilometres. Now everyone is looking forward to the opening in
March of the Don Bosco Sprots Centre for the Blind at Pakkred.
SUVA-Fiji (AUL): 31st January 2009 -- In the tiny chapel at Don
Bosco House Suva (Pinardi Shed re-visited?) five young men made their
first profession intot he hands of the Provincial, Fr Frank Moloney.
They were accompanied by many young religious who helped liven up the
liturgy with the usual wonderful Pacific singing and celebration.
Suva is the centre for an inter-novitiate programme.
The newly professed offer a cross-section of this
huge province: Bros Tuia Fagalilo Tuia, Lolesio Masoe and Samele Mika
are from Samoa, Bro. Tevita Nuku Luve Lefai is from the Kingdom of
Tonga (the second Tongan Salesian), and Bro Barry Parker from Australia.
The Australia-Pacific Province, now firmly committed
to formation and mission in Fiji was glad to wlecome into the community
celebration the new Rector of the Pacific Regional Seminary, Fr Michael
O'Connor SM, a former Marist provincial for the region.
PORT MORESBY (PNG/SI Delegation): 31st January 2009 -- Brother
Pedro Sachitula, the first Angolan missionary in Oceania, and doing his
practical training at Araimiri, was in Port Moresby for the first
profession of two novices from PNG. They did their novitiate at
Kumgi-Kundiawa in Simbu province in the highlands. Pedro's comments
were that these professions are "evident sign that God continues to
bless and call our Congregation to carry out and fulfill its mission".
CANLUBANG (FIN): 31st January 2009 -- Various members of the
Post Novitiate community wrote to describe what they were doing for the
Feast Day. They gathered young people in the evening for a live
webcast concert, with front acts provided by young people from nearby
schools and universities. The webcast was available from the Canlubang
web site, Signs and Bearers (http://dbcanlubang.info ) where you can
also find other photos of the foundation day celebration.
ROME: (RMG) 31st January 2009 -- 'Hacking the Way to Heaven' was
finally published and can be found at
http://www.lulu.com/content/5912363. In his preliminary blurb, Michel
Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation has this to say: "...Today the
Church is facing a new participatory challenge and promise, through the
digital technologies that empower self-aggregation, autonomous
organisation and peer to peer learning, outside established channels.
The Salesian Congregation, known for its global network of 'Don Bosco'
schools, is in the vanguard, not only of social issues, but also in its
encounter with the new open technologies that have an impact on the
youth it is reaching.....". While you may wish to pay for a shiny,
colourfully-covered printed version at €11.90, you may also be
attracted by the €0.00 download version, and the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence which gives you full
freedom to quote the contents liberally and adjust them as you wish, so
long as you acknowledge the original author.
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Title: australasia 2346
Subject and key words: SDB General, book release, EAO Provinces AUL,
PNG/SI, FIN, THA Don Bosco Day
Date (year): 2009
ID: 2000-2099|2346
