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Brothers follow-up: Dalat community introduces new element into formation curriculum
DALAT: 14th September 2006 -- With the largest number of temporary professed Brothers in the Region (15 in postnovitiate) and a sizeable number in the Province as a whole (46, one of whom is already a missionary in Sudan), it is understandable that Vietnam has taken some immediate steps as a follow-up to the recent Brothers' Assembly in Cambodia. The Brothers and a number of formators who attended that meeting from Vietnam adopted some practical resolutions which include:
- the choice of an appropriate reference title in Vietnamese ('su hyunh' in romanized form)
- immediate efforts to upgrade English studies for the Brothers, thus enabling them to take advantage of the specific formation now on offer from the Philippines at the Parañaque Seminaryo
- urgent translation of basic texts into Vietnamese, including local translations of materials concerning the vocation as a Salesian Brother
- re-echoing the Assembly for the 32 Brothers in the Province who were unable to attend the gathering Cambodia
- preparation of some fliers to promote the vocation of the Brother.
The Dalat community is the first of the EAO formation communities to tackle a new 'subject' or element in the three year postnovitiate curriculum - the Salesian Brother. This is based on the structure of the famous 'Golden Book' published in 1989 from Rome on the Salesian Brother.
In a recent sharing on the life and experience of the Brother from the point of view of those in the postnovitiate, young Brothers expressed their greater sense of confidence about their vocation, stemming from careful and appropriate formation and advice from their superiors. They recognised the need to overcome what they call 'the linguistic challenge', language which tends to harp on inequality and to confuse the true identity of Don Bosco's 'secular arm' as a Korean Province video on the Brother puts it. They also spoke of the importance of living up to the standard of their identity.
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Brothers follow-up: Dalat community introduces new element into formation curriculum
DALAT: 14th September 2006 -- With the largest number of temporary professed Brothers in the Region (15 in postnovitiate) and a sizeable number in the Province as a whole (46, one of whom is already a missionary in Sudan), it is understandable that Vietnam has taken some immediate steps as a follow-up to the recent Brothers' Assembly in Cambodia. The Brothers and a number of formators who attended that meeting from Vietnam adopted some practical resolutions which include:
- the choice of an appropriate reference title in Vietnamese ('su hyunh' in romanized form)
- immediate efforts to upgrade English studies for the Brothers, thus enabling them to take advantage of the specific formation now on offer from the Philippines at the Parañaque Seminaryo
- urgent translation of basic texts into Vietnamese, including local translations of materials concerning the vocation as a Salesian Brother
- re-echoing the Assembly for the 32 Brothers in the Province who were unable to attend the gathering Cambodia
- preparation of some fliers to promote the vocation of the Brother.
The Dalat community is the first of the EAO formation communities to tackle a new 'subject' or element in the three year postnovitiate curriculum - the Salesian Brother. This is based on the structure of the famous 'Golden Book' published in 1989 from Rome on the Salesian Brother.
In a recent sharing on the life and experience of the Brother from the point of view of those in the postnovitiate, young Brothers expressed their greater sense of confidence about their vocation, stemming from careful and appropriate formation and advice from their superiors. They recognised the need to overcome what they call 'the linguistic challenge', language which tends to harp on inequality and to confuse the true identity of Don Bosco's 'secular arm' as a Korean Province video on the Brother puts it. They also spoke of the importance of living up to the standard of their identity.
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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 queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com Try out BoscoWiki to be interactive. For RSS feeds, subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/RSS/rssala.xm A separate service entirely is called F/OSSERVATORE to help us keep abreast of trends in the digital world.
