austra L asia 1147
On the road to Mandalay: MYM setting out for bright future
YANGON 29th May 2005 -- Barely a year old as a Vice Province paddling its own canoe, Myanmar or, in Salesian code, MYM, has a bright future despite whatever other difficulties it must face. Vice Province superior, Fr Joachim Ye Maung, was able to announce to his confreres, in the month of May, some particular blessings: 3 novices made their first profession, another 10 began their novitiate. Further up the scale, another 17 young men are in formation. Further down the scale a prenovitiate of around 30 (waiting for exam results so numbers could fluctuate!)
By anybody's reckoning, with a total number in the Vice Province of just under 50, something like half of them are in initial formation, exclusing pre-novices. There is a scattering of students elsewhere in theology as well.
MYM has six main communities, one in Yangon (Rangoon); the remaining five are clustered in the central Northwest of the country, two in the Mandalay district, the remaining three in the Lashio district. At the Nazareth community in Anisakan (Mandalay district) there is the aspirantate and novitiate and a famed Marian shrine - 'a neater sweeter maiden in a cleaner greener land'??
VOCABULARY
On the Road to Mandalay: poem by Rudyard Kipling; reflections of a British soldier in love with a Burmese girl.
paddling one's own canoe: taking charge without help from others. The image suits Kipling's poem.
a neater sweeter...: Kipling again!
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On the road to Mandalay: MYM setting out for bright future
YANGON 29th May 2005 -- Barely a year old as a Vice Province paddling its own canoe, Myanmar or, in Salesian code, MYM, has a bright future despite whatever other difficulties it must face. Vice Province superior, Fr Joachim Ye Maung, was able to announce to his confreres, in the month of May, some particular blessings: 3 novices made their first profession, another 10 began their novitiate. Further up the scale, another 17 young men are in formation. Further down the scale a prenovitiate of around 30 (waiting for exam results so numbers could fluctuate!)
By anybody's reckoning, with a total number in the Vice Province of just under 50, something like half of them are in initial formation, exclusing pre-novices. There is a scattering of students elsewhere in theology as well.
MYM has six main communities, one in Yangon (Rangoon); the remaining five are clustered in the central Northwest of the country, two in the Mandalay district, the remaining three in the Lashio district. At the Nazareth community in Anisakan (Mandalay district) there is the aspirantate and novitiate and a famed Marian shrine - 'a neater sweeter maiden in a cleaner greener land'??
VOCABULARY
On the Road to Mandalay: poem by Rudyard Kipling; reflections of a British soldier in love with a Burmese girl.
paddling one's own canoe: taking charge without help from others. The image suits Kipling's poem.
a neater sweeter...: Kipling again!
__________________
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