austraLasia #2855
Wall to wall meetings!
ROME: 12 April 2011 -- Apologies to those who have asked for various things over recent days. it has simply been wall-to-wall meetings in various parts of the world for the past three weeks, and as anyone who has to do that sort of thing knows, one has to hit the ground running in each place. it's time to say thanks to confreres throughout our region and our neighbours (South Asia) who have attended and helped organise these gatherings, contributed so much, and not occasionally realised that those who have travelled long distances through time zones might in fact be a little tired and not at their top. Thanks to everyone. As has been said along the way, this series of meetings (the first of many to cover the entire Salesian world and present the renewed and so far very well accepted Salesian Social Communication System) has been the best we can recall in recent times. Clearly good messages are coming through from both directions and together making something of a forward and very positive movement in a world that has changed so much in a decade, what with technological advances, wikileaks (advanced or retrograde as you may consider it( and whatever.
In all of this maybe some news items have slipped up - not been received or maybe they were not sent? Was unable to report on Don Bosco in MYM since as yet, other than a brief note from the Archbishop, who pointed out that there were many thousands who gathered at the Cathedral, grateful and joyful at being able to be around 'Don Bosco', I am not aware of other news items that have reached my inbox. It is never too late! Others have asked for things to be done - could they wait just a few more days till the last of the present series of meetings is over? Then I'll get back to you.
Some might have heard that the Australian Provincial, Fr Frank Moloney, has a little miracle of his own to be thankful for. Several days ago he was in a line of traffic, stationery, minding his own business, when another vehicle came out of nowhere at right angles and hit him full pelt. He has come out of that better than his vehicle! No major physical injury - a but shaken up, and in future, no doubt, even more aware of the fragility of life! The miscreant was 'off her face', all drugged up and hardly aware of what she was doing - or could have done!
Korea Province has any number of missionaries back home - from Cambodia, Malawi, the Philippines, just to mention three that come to mind. ti is a vibrant province, and the memory, indeed the phenomenon of Fr John lee who died a year or so back at a young age (he was a missionary in the Sudan) is very strong. There are literally thousands of people of all ages who are 'following' him, supporting the work he started, being spiritually inspired, inspiring others - and the evidence is that all this is also bringing vocational interest of a very solid kind. God bless these good missionaries amongst us and healthy, or now elderly but still an inspiration, or who have passed to their reward and still do good on earth.
And now its off to Genzano for the European gathering communications delegates and Project Europe reference persons - all in together! A three-ringed circus? We hope not. Here too we hope for good things.
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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 . RSS feeds - just go to Bosconet, click on austraLasia 2011 in the sidebar. You will see the RSS orange icon in your browser address bar - add it from there. Or be interactive with the EAO blog Cetera Tolle. Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at http://sdl.sdb.org
Wall to wall meetings!
ROME: 12 April 2011 -- Apologies to those who have asked for various things over recent days. it has simply been wall-to-wall meetings in various parts of the world for the past three weeks, and as anyone who has to do that sort of thing knows, one has to hit the ground running in each place. it's time to say thanks to confreres throughout our region and our neighbours (South Asia) who have attended and helped organise these gatherings, contributed so much, and not occasionally realised that those who have travelled long distances through time zones might in fact be a little tired and not at their top. Thanks to everyone. As has been said along the way, this series of meetings (the first of many to cover the entire Salesian world and present the renewed and so far very well accepted Salesian Social Communication System) has been the best we can recall in recent times. Clearly good messages are coming through from both directions and together making something of a forward and very positive movement in a world that has changed so much in a decade, what with technological advances, wikileaks (advanced or retrograde as you may consider it( and whatever.
In all of this maybe some news items have slipped up - not been received or maybe they were not sent? Was unable to report on Don Bosco in MYM since as yet, other than a brief note from the Archbishop, who pointed out that there were many thousands who gathered at the Cathedral, grateful and joyful at being able to be around 'Don Bosco', I am not aware of other news items that have reached my inbox. It is never too late! Others have asked for things to be done - could they wait just a few more days till the last of the present series of meetings is over? Then I'll get back to you.
Some might have heard that the Australian Provincial, Fr Frank Moloney, has a little miracle of his own to be thankful for. Several days ago he was in a line of traffic, stationery, minding his own business, when another vehicle came out of nowhere at right angles and hit him full pelt. He has come out of that better than his vehicle! No major physical injury - a but shaken up, and in future, no doubt, even more aware of the fragility of life! The miscreant was 'off her face', all drugged up and hardly aware of what she was doing - or could have done!
Korea Province has any number of missionaries back home - from Cambodia, Malawi, the Philippines, just to mention three that come to mind. ti is a vibrant province, and the memory, indeed the phenomenon of Fr John lee who died a year or so back at a young age (he was a missionary in the Sudan) is very strong. There are literally thousands of people of all ages who are 'following' him, supporting the work he started, being spiritually inspired, inspiring others - and the evidence is that all this is also bringing vocational interest of a very solid kind. God bless these good missionaries amongst us and healthy, or now elderly but still an inspiration, or who have passed to their reward and still do good on earth.
And now its off to Genzano for the European gathering communications delegates and Project Europe reference persons - all in together! A three-ringed circus? We hope not. Here too we hope for good things.
_________________
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 . RSS feeds - just go to Bosconet, click on austraLasia 2011 in the sidebar. You will see the RSS orange icon in your browser address bar - add it from there. Or be interactive with the EAO blog Cetera Tolle. Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at http://sdl.sdb.org
