3416 7 new priests - and an apology-cum-explanation
austraLasia #3416
7 new priests - and an
apology-cum-explanation
23 April 2014 -- When GC27 concluded and 200 plus
Salesians moved out of the Pisana, it meant some
reorganisation of technical aspects. One of these was the
reinstallation of a firewall. That just happened to block
access to one regular user of the Pisana server who lives at
the other end of the planet! Since sdb.org, SDL and other
technical procedures of an international Congregation need
good protection at the best of times, the reinstallation was
doing its best to prevent a 'Snowden' moment! It succeeded.
But the better story is yet to come, I think. Distance is no
longer a barrier to working together, so by linking
computers and working together between Rome and the
'penguins' (almost literally), though it did take some days, we have solved the
provlem. Alleluia!
But the more important story is what is happening in our
region post-Chapter. here is one of these items.
FIN—The
Salesian congregation received a beautiful Easter gift thru
the ordination of seven young men to the order of
priesthood--21 April, first day of Easter Octave--in a
jampacked National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in
Paranaque City, the Philippines.
Fr. Erasto Dizon, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Joji Inocentes, III, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Jake Lopez, SDB (FIN)
Fr. JM Mangubat, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Nelson Munar, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Arnold Pattyona, SDB (VIE-MNG)
Fr. Paul Michael Suarez, SDB (FIN)
Attended by more than 1,000 individuals composed largely of
the members of the Salesian family, young people from various
Don Bosco settings in the FIN, and regular parishioners, our
seven newly ordained priests prove once more how God shows His
magnanimous love for the work of our confreres in the
Philippine North Province and Mongolia by hailing ministers to
take care of His young people.
Among the newly ordained, Fr. Arnold Pattyona, born in
Indonesia, is set to fly to Mongolia to begin his missionary
work there.
His Eminence Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, Archbishop Emeritus
of the Archdiocese of Manila was their ordaining prelate. In
his beautiful homily, Cardinal Rosales reminded the new
priests—and even each one present in the Mass—to go back to
our own Galilee that we may meet the Risen Lord!
Some 86 priests came to concelebrate and greet the newly
ordained to the ministry of priesthood.