ROME: 2nd February 2010 -- There are one or two resources that
may be of interest around the Region. Often, these resources are put
together after a request from far-off places, or an idea from someone -
or some simply wants to share what he has with others. You would
be surprised the number of requests, discussions of ideas and the like
that arrive each day!
While it is far too late for this year, anybody in
the future who might be looking for the Mass texts for the Feast of St
John Bosco will now find them on SDL. We tend to make the assumption
that this would be available anyway in printed material in each House
so it's not necessary to provide it elsewhere. True in 99% of cases,
but one reader is from Russia and he needed the Mass texts for a Mass
in English the following day - he got them.
Some of you may know of Fr Lens. Fr Lens is an
elderly but very active Salesian in the Novitiate community in
Hyderabad Province. He has helped out many a time with
translations, being competent in a number of languages - and English is
not his mother tongue, though you wouldn't know it. Anyway, Fr
Lens is now working on a Salesian Ordo for his own purposes, and having
received a copy of the February (and March) drafts of this, I thought
it might serve as a model if anyone wanted to do something similar in a
community or even a Province context. With the help of Open
Office, which is especially suited to setting up structured documents
using styles, the
February edition is now available as a .doc file. Because it
is well-structured it is easier for anyone to extend now to other
months in a local context. The birthdays are obviously people
from Fr Lens's province so just eliminate those and replace them/move
them to appropriate spots. It's a very simple idea, but could be
useful in a community especially. If you develop this idea, be
kind enough to share your developments!
Within the next 24 hours, all SC Delegates and a few
others in the region will be contacted by email with a temporary
address to access the new sdb.org 2.0. This will be an invitation
to try it out, comment on what works and what doesn't work, what you
like and what you don't like. errors, and the like. sdb.org 2.0
is now in its final beta stage, and following several weeks of tests
will be revealed to the world at large. If you do not receive an email
but would particularly like to be part of the testing process, just
let's know. _________________ AustraLasia is an
email
service
for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions
as an
agency for ANS based in
Rome.
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address bar - add it from there. Or be interactive with the EAO blog Cetera Tolle. Avail
yourself of the Salesian
Digital
Library
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