From: "jbfox" <jbfox@is.com.fj>

To: <jbfox@is.com.fj>

Subject: 'austraLasia' # 399

Date: Tuesday, 8 August 2000 9:54 PM

SALESIAN GENERALATE

Rome, August 7th 2000

Communication n.13

The Rector Major

I have opted to send you personally this information about my

health-situation in order to thank each and everyone of you very sincerely

and to give you some updating on how things are going.

After one week of my return to the Pisana, I can say that I am regaining

health rather well. Yesterday I could, with great pleasure, preside over

the Eucharist of the community of the Generalate on the solemnity of the

Transfiguration.

This week I will start radiotherapy, after which we will be able to

evaluate better the conditions and possibility to go back gradually to

work. In the meantime I am close to you all, especially to those among you

who are also in ill conditions or who are suffering, with my prayer and my

fraternal and fatherly solidarity.

I entrust to the Lord the course of my sickness and I ask you to continue

praying through the intersession of the Venerable brother Zatti. Everything

though should be done according to the will of God and for the well-being

of our Congregation.

I renew my thanks to all and wish that everyone may see his/her desires

fulfilled through the intersession of don Bosco.

Don Juan E. Vecchi.