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FIJI: FIRST SALESIAN GRADUATES
SUVA: 30th October -- The Feast of Bl. Michael
Rua brought good news for nine Third Year Salesian students at the Pacific
Regional Seminary, Fiji, yesterday, with the posting of their names as certain
recipients of the Diploma of Theology. This is the first group of
Salesians, the founding group therefore at PRS, and all nine who have presented
have achieved this important first academic title. The Salesians first
came to Fiji in 1999 in the form of a Formation Community which has also become
an active centre of Salesian presence amongst the young people of the Fiji
Islands. The Seminary they attend is affiliated with the Roman
Pontifical University, the Urbanianum. Courses at PRS are also recognized
by SPATS, the South Pacific Association of Theological Schools.
The nine young Salesians, all candidates for the
priesthood (it is possible also for non-ordination candidates to achieve diploma
status) hail from Samoa and Tonga. In December of this year they commence
a year of preparation for Final Vows, beginning with the Hesed Programme
organised for Religious at this stage of formation throughout the Islands
of the South Pacific by the CMSPI or Conference of Major Superiors of the
Pacific Islands.
Graduation Day for the Diploma will take place on November
14th.
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