austraLasia #1723

Salesianity workshop underway in Thailand

SAMPRAN: 1st January 2007 -- Participants, somewhere around 100 of them, have been arriving for the start of the Salesianity Workshop at Sampran (near Bangkok) tomorrow.  The Workshop is entitled 'The story behind the stories' and is based on the Three 'lives' written by Don Bosco - biographies of Dominic Savio, Francis Besucco and Michael Magone - and the Memoirs of the Oratory.  The Workshop is being conducted by Fr Aldo Giraudo, Salesian scholar and lecturer in Salesianity at the UPS, Rome and Turin. Fr Giraudo will lead participants, who hail from various groups of the Salesian Family and from virtually all provinces of the East Asia-Oceania Region, through elements of the narrative spirituality and pedagogy apparent in these texts.
    All of the texts, and an English translation of the materials for interpretation which will be presented by Fr Giraudo (who will work in his own language, Italian, but with translation) are available on Bosconet. The versions of the three lives and the Memoirs of the Oratory are available in either booklet form (doc format) or in web format (html).  Both sets of translations, which had existed previously and in some instances have been out of print for a number of years, have been worked through and corrected.   Of interest to readers generally is that the version of the Memoirs of the Oratory which participatns will be working with in English (the booklet 'doc' format version) has been corrected by Fr Arthur Lenti for a number of errors that were in the earlier published version.  This makes the current version referred to the most accurate available to English readers today.
    The Workshop will conclude on 6th January.  It is expected that further items of news on this event will emanate from the workshop setting itself - a number of austraLasia correspondents are participating.  Keep yourselves posted!
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