austraLasia #2412

Some resources to accompany Don Bosco!

ROME: 12th May 2009 -- Now that the Casket containing Don Bosco's mortal remains (part thereof - especially one hand and forearm) has begun its lengthy three year journey through the Salesian world, people will be looking for various accompanying material, either just out of curiosity, or perhaps to prepare for the arrival of the Casket in one place or another.  The 'pilgrimage' itself one can follow easily enough on ANS, since the Casket's reception will take on particularly local colour wherever it is being received.
    Here we are drawing your attention to some material that you may find interesting and useful.  You have already seen a brilliant and attractive 'Flash' image of the Casket on the Home Page of www.sdb.org . Want more of that and in the highest imaginable resolution?  Bro Hilario Seo KOR but currently webmaster for sdb.org and photographer extraordinaire has taken these shots and they are quite spectacular. On SDL in the 'Don Bosco' collection simply look for '150 anniversario' (you'll find it under titles at the top of the list, or search '150' using Titles as your search section) and there you will find 11 high resolution pics of the Casket when it arrived recently at Cinecittà in Rome. Along with these are some 30 other shots of 'faces' for want of a better word, Bronze relief depictions either end of the Casket representing the faces of young people from every nation.
    Another item of interest, this time to be found in the 'Resources' collection on SDL, is 'Don Bosco the Puppeteer'.  This is a presentation (ppt) focused on a recently produced artistic representation of Don Bosco as a puppeteer! The presentation explains various aspects of this. We thank Fr Laurence Essery, attached to IRL but working in Tunisia, for his translation of this. The same item is on SDL in Spanish and Italian also. Your easiest way to pick this up is to go to the 'resources' collection then 'Subjects' and 'Don Bosco'.
    Finally, don't overlook the Ongoing Formation Bulletin produced from Don Bosco Hall in Berkeley. This is a relatively new item, and the May edition has just been placed on SDL again in the 'resources' collection. Again go 'Subjects' but then 'Ongoing Formation'.
    And finally, while we are at it, though none of these are specifically on Don Bosco, we have just added two further items to the English collection under 'Subject', 'Missions', the latest Cagliero11 newsletter (May) and an interesting position paper by Bro Jean Paul Muller from Bonn on 'Microfinancing projects serving youth'.
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Bear in mind that over these days (in fact May-June) there are a number of ordinations of confreres belonging to the Region. Martino Nguyen Dai Loc was ordained priest by Bishop Carlo Chenis sdb at Alassio on 8th May.

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Title: australasia 2412
Subject and key words: SDB General: Don Bosco material
Date (year): 2009
ID: 2000-2099|2412