austraLasia 1092
austraLasia on the road - to
Emmaus
Br. Nguyen Tuan Pham Anh John
EMMAUS: 29th March 2005 -- Yesterday,
bread was broken on the road to Emmaus. It was received from the hands of
the Curator of the Holy Places in the Holy Land. The road to Emmaus, or
should we say a likely candidate amongst several 'Emmauses', was
perhaps a little longer than the route taken by the two disciples, caused by the
desire of the Palestinian driver (alas, in this modern age, we did not
walk, but Jesus can also be found in mini-buses!) to avoid certain roads
and to move through Palestinian (though occupied) areas instead. And
the bread was consumed while we waited for our driver, who had gone to the
next-door mosque to pray; perhaps there we found Jesus in the
stranger.
austraLasia has some new
correspondents! They live in Jerusalem. From an earlier issue you
learned that there are a number of students from EAO region at the Salesian
Theological Institute, Jerusalem, located in the centre of New Jerusalem, in the
Ratisbonne building not far from the Knesset in one direction or from the Old
City via Jaffa Gate in the other.
You are receiving austraLasia
these days occasionally from Jerusalem or from nearby well-known locations (such
as Emmaus, today) because our student body is being encouraged by Fr
Julian to provide news. And he is here with us to show us
how.
Fr Julian arrived on Wednesday at Ben
Gurion airport Tel Aviv from Rome where he works both within the Social
Communications Department and the EAO Region. He is offering us a course
in Communications - as he puts it, a course based less on theory and more on
practice given that he has been a practical, rather than a
theoretically trained communicator.
austraLasia, which began in 1997, and
which reaches all corners of the region and beyond with several thousand
readers, is for us a practical example of IT and communication. The
Salesian apostolate amongst the young can only be completed if young Salesians
understand how to make use of internet, email, web, along with, of course, the
most basic ability of the Salesian to be a true communicator in his personal
desire to communicate and educate...
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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian
Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based
in Rome. Try also www.bosconet.aust.com and Lexisdb 
