Blessing of new religion activity room in Aberdeen Technical School

By Fr. Carlos Cheung, SDB

Hong Kong, 6 November 2017 -- 6th Nov., also the birthday of Fr Simon Lam, a new religion activity room is blessed and launched in Aberdeen Technical School (ATS). During the ceremony, Rector Father Simon Lam encouraged all boarders and teachers to make good use of this activity room for strengthening their Christian identity and be united in Christ so that our school can truly be a field of evangelization.

In the meantime, he also expressed his gratitude, especially to the benefactor, Mr. Francis Law, for being so supportive for this meaningful Salesian charismatic action for the young people, in particular by facilitating the pastoral service in ATS.

After the blessing ceremony, there was a simple birthday party for Father Rector. All Catholic teachers and students sang together a birthday song and Rector expressed his birthday wishes. He wished that all students will be nurtured by our Salesian accompany and reach the 3 objectives set in the boarding section, which are first to learn how to study, second to be a good human person and third to reach the path of eternity. The tea gathering ended in a joyful and communion manner.

The purpose of the religion activity room is to provide an Oratorian atmosphere for young people to “play and pray” in an educative and catechetical manner. This room is particularly helping the 400 students in ATS, among them 120 boarders. In ATS, there are totally 4 catechism classes, roughly 30 students are involved. Meanwhile, there are also religious-exploring gatherings for junior students, solidarity leadership training and catechetical formation for Catholic students. Other than students, there are Lectio Divina and gatherings for all Catholic teachers every month.

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