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Don Bosco CLAY, Cebu - a vision for 2006
CEBU: 1st February 2006 -- As a follow up to #1334 (Nov 21st) which you can check in Bosconet for background, especially for the fuller meaning of CLAY, a lay-run Salesianity programme, comes the following interesting and potentially very useful information for other provinces, should they wish to avail themselves of the material being produced.
On the morning of the Feast of Don Bosco, in the presence of the Provincial of the Southern Philippines Province, Fr Julius Sanchez, the Vice Provincial Fr Ronel Vilbar, Mrs Lori who manages DBCLAY, a member of the office staff and four other members of the core group, all lay people (Cooperator, Past Pupil, Damas Salesianas, Mamma Margaret Group), the DBCLAY 2005 evaluation and 2006 programme was given to Fr Klement, Regional Councillor for EAO.
The 2005 'harvest' is impressive: forming formators continues regularly, weekly in fact. SDB novices have now been included in the Saturday sessions, to the mutual enrichment of all. Ongoing formation is based mainly on the Memoirs of the Oratory, chapter by chapter, through reports by novices and lay participants. There have been eight youth encounter programmes, each lasting for three days. As part of this there has been the formation of youth group leaders for Salesian as well as non-Salesian schools and parishes. Five retreats were offered to diocesan seminarians, parents from Salesian schools or training centres. They also offered an Advent programme. Five basic Salesianity programmes have been on offer - one day programmes, level one and two, for DB school parents, DB parish staff, DBTI teaching and auxiliary staff. An additional programme was a human sexuality programme and a team building workshop.
In 2006, the entire programme will move from its current location at Punta Princessa (DBTC grounds) to Talisay City-Lawaan formation house, which involves pre-novitiatie, novitiate, retreat house. A new third batch of 'form the formators' will begin, and a Salesian Spirituality formation programme for Talisay City, open to the twenty or so other religious communities based there. Also planned is a programme for catechesis for Talisay youth via an oratory-youth centre at Lawaan. The levels 3-10 modules for the Salesianity programme will be developed this year, and the entire set then presented to Rectors towards the end of 2006.
DBCLAY's regular monthly visits to the Cebu Juvenile Prison enables formators to be in touch with youth at risk. In a new direction altogether, the DBCLAY programmes will also be offered to the coporate world - Salesian spirituality for employee and staff human and team building. Should this venture succeed, it will provide a source of income for a programme which up till now has no income source of its own.
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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
Don Bosco CLAY, Cebu - a vision for 2006
CEBU: 1st February 2006 -- As a follow up to #1334 (Nov 21st) which you can check in Bosconet for background, especially for the fuller meaning of CLAY, a lay-run Salesianity programme, comes the following interesting and potentially very useful information for other provinces, should they wish to avail themselves of the material being produced.
On the morning of the Feast of Don Bosco, in the presence of the Provincial of the Southern Philippines Province, Fr Julius Sanchez, the Vice Provincial Fr Ronel Vilbar, Mrs Lori who manages DBCLAY, a member of the office staff and four other members of the core group, all lay people (Cooperator, Past Pupil, Damas Salesianas, Mamma Margaret Group), the DBCLAY 2005 evaluation and 2006 programme was given to Fr Klement, Regional Councillor for EAO.
The 2005 'harvest' is impressive: forming formators continues regularly, weekly in fact. SDB novices have now been included in the Saturday sessions, to the mutual enrichment of all. Ongoing formation is based mainly on the Memoirs of the Oratory, chapter by chapter, through reports by novices and lay participants. There have been eight youth encounter programmes, each lasting for three days. As part of this there has been the formation of youth group leaders for Salesian as well as non-Salesian schools and parishes. Five retreats were offered to diocesan seminarians, parents from Salesian schools or training centres. They also offered an Advent programme. Five basic Salesianity programmes have been on offer - one day programmes, level one and two, for DB school parents, DB parish staff, DBTI teaching and auxiliary staff. An additional programme was a human sexuality programme and a team building workshop.
In 2006, the entire programme will move from its current location at Punta Princessa (DBTC grounds) to Talisay City-Lawaan formation house, which involves pre-novitiatie, novitiate, retreat house. A new third batch of 'form the formators' will begin, and a Salesian Spirituality formation programme for Talisay City, open to the twenty or so other religious communities based there. Also planned is a programme for catechesis for Talisay youth via an oratory-youth centre at Lawaan. The levels 3-10 modules for the Salesianity programme will be developed this year, and the entire set then presented to Rectors towards the end of 2006.
DBCLAY's regular monthly visits to the Cebu Juvenile Prison enables formators to be in touch with youth at risk. In a new direction altogether, the DBCLAY programmes will also be offered to the coporate world - Salesian spirituality for employee and staff human and team building. Should this venture succeed, it will provide a source of income for a programme which up till now has no income source of its own.
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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
