ITM
Starts the first of a series of Retreats
JAKARTA:
5 July 2005 -- ITM Vice-Province has scheduled the
usual annual retreats for the confreres of Indonesia and East
Timor. Fr. Jose Vattaparambil SDB, fresh from his studies in
Berkeley, will preach the retreats, starting with the young confreres
and the formators in the post-novitiate of Jakarta.The second and third
retreats will be held for the confreres of East Timor. The fourth
retreat will be for the Indonesian novices who will profess in
August.
Sunday, the third of July, a lively group of 41
Salesians, including the provincial Fr. Andres Calleja, gathered
in a mountain peak retreat house, three hours away from Jakarta.
They began the retreat with sung vespers, singing the
psalms, antiphons and responsories. Even the special prayer before
the meal was sung to the tune of Edelweiss! Unfortunately, the
reporter was present only till after supper of first vespers, so one
can only imagine what else they will come up with, or even if the
preacher will take to chanting his talks! Then may they at least love
the Singer for his song ( a title that has stuck with the reporter; he
must have read it somewhere).
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