1147 On the road to Mandalay: MYM setting out for bright future
austra L asia 1147
On the road
to Mandalay: MYM setting out for bright future
YANGON 29th May 2005 -- Barely a year old as a Vice
Province paddling its own canoe, Myanmar
or, in Salesian code, MYM, has a bright future despite whatever other
difficulties it must face. Vice Province superior, Fr Joachim Ye
Maung, was able to announce to his confreres, in the month of May, some
particular blessings: 3 novices made their first profession, another 10
began their novitiate. Further up the scale, another 17 young men
are in formation. Further down the scale a prenovitiate of around
30 (waiting for exam results so numbers could fluctuate!)
By anybody's reckoning, with a total number in the
Vice Province of just under 50, something like half of them are in
initial formation, exclusing pre-novices. There is a scattering
of students elsewhere in theology as well.
MYM has six main communities, one in Yangon
(Rangoon); the remaining five are clustered in the central Northwest of
the country, two in the Mandalay district, the remaining three in the
Lashio district. At the Nazareth community in Anisakan (Mandalay
district) there is the aspirantate and novitiate and a famed Marian
shrine - 'a neater sweeter maiden in a cleaner
greener land'??
VOCABULARY
On the Road to Mandalay: poem by Rudyard
Kipling; reflections of a British soldier in love with a Burmese girl.
paddling one's own canoe: taking charge
without help from others. The image suits Kipling's poem.
a neater sweeter...: Kipling again!
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