austraLasia 1592
A bit more animation
ROME: 22nd June 2006 -- The last 'animation' item (#1590), though it was not news as such, drew considerable response. Clearly, the occasional appearance of such items is appreciated. One more, then, along these lines. In the meantime there may be a little more coming out of Rome to get people animated - but just take that as the broadest of hints and stow it away until it happens, in the not too distant future.
There are two big events coming up within the EAO region over the next few months. The first of them, chronologically, is the Asian World Youth Day. This is a Church-wide event within the Asian context, but it will clearly involve all the Region. With WYD in the offing (2008), one imagines that Sydney organizers will also be in Hong Kong in force, to pick up some hints. The second of the big events is the Brothers' assembly in Phnom Penh in August.
First, AYD: Provincials and Youth Ministry Delegates will have received a letter from Fr Andrew Fung, the YM Delegate for CIN province. Andrew indicates that August 5th is the day designated for what they are calling SAY, Salesian Asian Youth. It will take place from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. on that day. The letter of invitation does not mention the location, but it does ask for numbers of participants and likely contributions by way of performances and the like. The letter asked for a return of information by 20th June, so one assumes that this letter has been received and responded to by now. If not, get in touch quickly with Andrew on sys@mail.sdb.org.hk .
Brothers' Assembly: the general details of this are well known by now, and if you are unsure, then they are all available to you on Bosconet. Just made available on the latter - it is enough to go to the 'What's new' on the homepage, scroll down a little if you need to - are a range of interesting statistics in chart form on the numbers of Brothers across the region, and a comparison with other regions. A book by now completely out of print, once known as the 'Golden Book' on the Brother, and one which deals with the history, identity, vocational apostolate and formation of the Brother as understood at or about 1989, will be made available again shortly. It was an 'edizione extra commerciale', a kind of old-fashioned Creative Commons Licence! Don Bosco Press in Manila have been very cooperative in offering to accurately scan one of the few existing copies (they printed it originally) and here in Rome we can re-typeset it and get it into a decent booklet format (perhaps without the fancy gold cover) 'for a song' as they say, using excellent open source, free software. That will also be made available in digital format and downloadable from Bosconet.
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A bit more animation
ROME: 22nd June 2006 -- The last 'animation' item (#1590), though it was not news as such, drew considerable response. Clearly, the occasional appearance of such items is appreciated. One more, then, along these lines. In the meantime there may be a little more coming out of Rome to get people animated - but just take that as the broadest of hints and stow it away until it happens, in the not too distant future.
There are two big events coming up within the EAO region over the next few months. The first of them, chronologically, is the Asian World Youth Day. This is a Church-wide event within the Asian context, but it will clearly involve all the Region. With WYD in the offing (2008), one imagines that Sydney organizers will also be in Hong Kong in force, to pick up some hints. The second of the big events is the Brothers' assembly in Phnom Penh in August.
First, AYD: Provincials and Youth Ministry Delegates will have received a letter from Fr Andrew Fung, the YM Delegate for CIN province. Andrew indicates that August 5th is the day designated for what they are calling SAY, Salesian Asian Youth. It will take place from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. on that day. The letter of invitation does not mention the location, but it does ask for numbers of participants and likely contributions by way of performances and the like. The letter asked for a return of information by 20th June, so one assumes that this letter has been received and responded to by now. If not, get in touch quickly with Andrew on sys@mail.sdb.org.hk .
Brothers' Assembly: the general details of this are well known by now, and if you are unsure, then they are all available to you on Bosconet. Just made available on the latter - it is enough to go to the 'What's new' on the homepage, scroll down a little if you need to - are a range of interesting statistics in chart form on the numbers of Brothers across the region, and a comparison with other regions. A book by now completely out of print, once known as the 'Golden Book' on the Brother, and one which deals with the history, identity, vocational apostolate and formation of the Brother as understood at or about 1989, will be made available again shortly. It was an 'edizione extra commerciale', a kind of old-fashioned Creative Commons Licence! Don Bosco Press in Manila have been very cooperative in offering to accurately scan one of the few existing copies (they printed it originally) and here in Rome we can re-typeset it and get it into a decent booklet format (perhaps without the fancy gold cover) 'for a song' as they say, using excellent open source, free software. That will also be made available in digital format and downloadable from Bosconet.
___________________
AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com Try out BoscoWiki to be interactive. For RSS feeds, subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/RSS/rssala.xm A separate service entirely is called F/OSSERVATORE to help us keep abreast of trends in the digital world.
