3183 China Province: Don Bosco's Heart, Heart to Heart
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China
Province: Don Bosco’s Heart – Heart to Heart
Hong Kong: 25 January 2013 -- 20 January 2013 was a
great day
for all the members of the Salesian Family from China
Province. The
launching ceremony for the second year of the 3 year
preparation for
the Bicentenary of Don Bosco’s birth was held with more than
800
Salesian family members who came together at the Wu Kwai Sha
Youth
Village.
China Province uses the motto “Don Bosco’s Heart – Heart to
Heart” as a
way of expressing the Rector Major's injunction “to know,
imitate and
inherit Don Bosco’s spirit”, over these 3 years of preparation
for the
Bicentenary. This launching ceremony was to ignite the fire of
Salesian
Family members to follow Don Bosco, to invite more people to
join the
Salesian Family through the encounter with his successors.
Cardinal Joseph Zen, Fr Lanfranco Fedrigotti, Provincial of
the China
Province, Sr. Monica Liu, Provincial Superior of the Daughters
of Mary
Help Christians, Sr. Mabel Chan, Supreme Moderator of the
Sisters
Announcers of The Lord and the chairpersons of all the
Salesian Family
groups officiated at the launching ceremony.
Then a racing competition round the 400 meter track took
place: 200
laps around the sports field! The runners were secondary
students,
teachers and youth centre members. After the competitions, the
emotion
of the crowd was high, they responded to an invitation to go
down to
the tracks for a round-field walk, sharing a most delightful
atmosphere. Fr. Provincial lead the track-walk.
Finally, a 200-piece jigsaw puzzle, each piece about 1 metre
square,
was put together and displayed on the sports ground with the
help of
200 Salesian youthful members and parishioners. This
represented our
determination and good will in preparation for the
Bicentenary, to
build up the Salesian Family, to realise the vision of Don
Bosco and to
continue to reach more people through Don Bosco’s spirituality
and
charism.
After the event, participants felt that the most impressive
part was
the flag waving moment by all the Salesian Family members,
showing
their unity under the banner of Don Bosco. Everyone wished
that they
could do more for Don Bosco. Fr. Lanfranco also encouraged us
to
actively participate in the events over the next few years.
