#559

John Butana Thusi, one of the eleven Brothers at the chapter and the delegate of the South African 'Visitatoria' speaks his mind:
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Too much of talking in theories that will never be realized, very little in terms of practical doing things as expected by our confreres back in our provinces.

Rapid drift towards clericalism than being Salesian religious brothers and priests.

The majority of the confreres don't seem to believe nor want to understand the vocation of the Salesian brother as conceived by Don Bosco. To me the brothers cannot push this forward by themselves because it is not within their virtue to fight for this than serve god in the spirit of Don Bosco.

Finally, la Pisana ought to appear like an international house of Salesians universally in terms of popular linguistic usage and availability of reading matter, let alone quick lesson on CD for Italian. It would be a good gesture to us if a few things were made available in English rather than having everything in Italian. This does not make one feel very welcome here.

Otherwise everything is good.

Bro. John Bhutana Thusi.
johnthusisdb@hotmail.com