austraLasia #2654 Thousands joined Mary First Disciple eConference
SYDNEY: 01-06-10 -- Thousands from across Australia and from
around the world joined in an eConference on "Mary First Disciple"
hosted by the Australian Bishops Conference and the Broken Bay
Institute, featuring Professor Frank Moloney SDB as key presenter. More
than 300 sites were registered to take part in the webcast which took
place in mid May. As well as Australian sites, a number from New
Zealand, Fiji, France, Ghana, India, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Malta,
Nigeria, Peru, The Philippines, Swaziland and the USA took part.
This was the third such eConference, and their
popularity has been
noted by the Bishops Conference and the Institute. Bishop David Walker,
in who diocese the forum was hosted (so Broken Bay, about 50 kms north
of Sydney, really, but most reader overseas relate more easily to
'Sydney'!) and a member of the Bishops Commission for Mission and Faith
formation, said of the eConference popularity:
"I think it shows that people are hungry for really
good quality
adult faith formation and opportunities to come together as parish
communities or workplace communities to reflect on the Gospel and to
really allow the Gospel to have a living, active role in our daily
lives".
Fr Moloney, of course, as well as being Salesian
Provincial for the
Australia-Pacific Province, is widely known in Australia and
internationally as a Scripture scholar. He was not the only presenter.
There was one further draw-card for the event:
registered
participants went into a draw to win a trip to Rome for the
canonisation of Mary McKillop in October.
The program has been archived on the Web and can be
accessed
through http://mary.vividas.com _________________ 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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