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JAPAN: EAO SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS MEETING
UNDERWAY
CHOFU (Tokyo) 4th February '04 -- The East
Asia-Oceania (EAO) Region have begun their Social Communications Meeting with
Fr. Tarcisio Scaramussa, General Councillor for Social Communications, and Fr.
Vaclav Klement, Regional Superior. Present also to facilitate and guide
the participating confreres are Fr. Peter Gonsalves and Fr. Renato Butera.
Participants are the Provincials and Delegates of Social Communication for
the Region -- Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines-North and
Philippines-South, Indonesia-Timor and Australia. The Delegate of Papua
New Guinea, Fr. Valeriano Barbero, and the representative from Solomon
Islands, Fr. Ambrose Pereira, are also present.
Confreres started
filling the rooms of the Salesian Seminary in Chofu from the morning up to the
evening of the 2nd. The three-day affair opened yesterday morning 3rd
February
with the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist with Fr. Klement as
celebrant and homilist. Fr. Orlando Puppo, Provincial of Japan, read
the gospel of the raising of Jairus' duaghter and the healing of the woman
with a haemorrhage, "The gospel for today is very much relevant to our
gathering," said Fr. Klement in his homily, "because the most important thing is
that we touch Jesus in order to fulfill our mission in the field of social
communication."
The morning sessions were devoted to the
sharing of each participating Province as regards their apostolate in the field
of social communications, their aims, plans and projects and difficulties.
In the afternoon, Fr. Peter Gonsalves and Fr. Renato Buttera oriented the
participants on the ways and means to maximize the website of the Salesian
Congregation (www.sdb.org) and of its ANS news
website. Their orientation led to the realization of how rich and convenient the
websites are and paved the way to motivate each Province to contribute news,
information and materials to the whole Salesian world.
Later in the
afternoon, Fr. Scaramussa opened up a study process on the document at
hand. The day ended with an Italian version of the 30-minute video on
Venerable Cimatti.
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