TOKYO: 13 February 2012 --
The
Salesian Spirituality Days held each year in Rome at the
General
House and which function at 'world' level, are by now a
fixture, as
well as bearers of good spiritual results. But many
provinces, too,
are working along similar lines.
On 11-12 February at Suginami, Tokyo, members of the Salesian
Family
took part in the annual seminar on Salesian
spirituality. There were
100 of them, and on the morning of the first day they listened
to Fr
John Marsiglio, who addressed them on the question of the
Charismatic
Identity of the Salesian Family, aka the Salesian Family
Identity
Charter, published for the moment in Italian (other
translations have
already been prepared but given the official nature of the
document,
have yet to be approved).
The afternoon saw participants working in groups, tackling the
same content.
The entire group met again on Sunday afternoon, where Fr Paul
Mishima
Shin presented the key elements of the Rector Major's
Commentary on the
2012 Strenna, the DVD of which was screened then in a
Japanese-dubbed
version. The assembly then once again broke into groups to
explore the
content they had just been presented with.
Breaks and meals provided ample opportunity for fellowship
amongst the
various Salesian Family Group members, and this has helped to
increase
the sense of belonging to the Family.
On the 25th and 26th of this same month, the same event will
be
repeated in Japan's south, at Beppu, for the Salesian Family
members in
the Kyushu region.
