austraLasia 1252
Salesian Brother 2006: some extra efforts being made around the region
ROME: 19th September 2005 -- Some extraordinary efforts are in place around the EAO region with regard to the call to Salesian lay consecration - as a Brother. IN the past week, a letter from Fr Klement has gone out to as many Brothers personally as we can find email addresses for, but the same letter has gone to Provincials, Formation personnel. As with any email 'broadcast' of this type, a number return as 'address unknown', but it has to be said that there has been a good response to the reminder that a questionnaire in view of next year's meeting of Brothers in Cambodia should be returned by mid-October. Responses have come most recently from Australia and the Philippines.
In the meantime a special effort is being made in the Philippines North Province, under the direction of Fr Mon, a member of the DB Seminaryo Paranaque community and currently coordinator for the Salesian Brother vocation in FIN (he is also Vocation animator for the province). Fr Mon has sent out a letter to 34 Brothers in the province, 21 of them Filipinos, 6 Vietnamese, 4 Koreans, 2 Japanese and 1 Spaniard. The letter is actually a follow-up to the Provincial Assembly and concerns the promotion and care of the Salesian Brother vocation.
In addition to requesting responses to the questionnaire in preparation for the regional seminar, the letter outlines a number of initiatives which may be of interest to other provinces: bimonthly encounter between prenovices, postnovices and Salesian Brothers studying at Paranaque; quarterly gatherings of all Salesian Brothers in the province, including a combined effort with the 13 Brothers belonging to the Cebu (FIS) province. This is scheduled for May of next year. The 15th of each month has been proposed as a day to encourage community devotion to Blessed Artemides Zatti.
There is an encouragement also to keep in touch with the regularly updated www.bosconet.aust.com (Bosconet) section on the Salesian Brother Regional Seminar 2006.
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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 RSS feeds, subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/rssala.xml. If you subscribe, email this information and your name will come off the regular email list. RSS eliminates problems such as multiple mailings, viruses, email bloat. Think about it!
Salesian Brother 2006: some extra efforts being made around the region
ROME: 19th September 2005 -- Some extraordinary efforts are in place around the EAO region with regard to the call to Salesian lay consecration - as a Brother. IN the past week, a letter from Fr Klement has gone out to as many Brothers personally as we can find email addresses for, but the same letter has gone to Provincials, Formation personnel. As with any email 'broadcast' of this type, a number return as 'address unknown', but it has to be said that there has been a good response to the reminder that a questionnaire in view of next year's meeting of Brothers in Cambodia should be returned by mid-October. Responses have come most recently from Australia and the Philippines.
In the meantime a special effort is being made in the Philippines North Province, under the direction of Fr Mon, a member of the DB Seminaryo Paranaque community and currently coordinator for the Salesian Brother vocation in FIN (he is also Vocation animator for the province). Fr Mon has sent out a letter to 34 Brothers in the province, 21 of them Filipinos, 6 Vietnamese, 4 Koreans, 2 Japanese and 1 Spaniard. The letter is actually a follow-up to the Provincial Assembly and concerns the promotion and care of the Salesian Brother vocation.
In addition to requesting responses to the questionnaire in preparation for the regional seminar, the letter outlines a number of initiatives which may be of interest to other provinces: bimonthly encounter between prenovices, postnovices and Salesian Brothers studying at Paranaque; quarterly gatherings of all Salesian Brothers in the province, including a combined effort with the 13 Brothers belonging to the Cebu (FIS) province. This is scheduled for May of next year. The 15th of each month has been proposed as a day to encourage community devotion to Blessed Artemides Zatti.
There is an encouragement also to keep in touch with the regularly updated www.bosconet.aust.com (Bosconet) section on the Salesian Brother Regional Seminar 2006.
____________________
AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For RSS feeds, subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/rssala.xml. If you subscribe, email this information and your name will come off the regular email list. RSS eliminates problems such as multiple mailings, viruses, email bloat. Think about it!
