austraLasia 1656
New resources, new steps taken: Salesian Brother, Mamma Margaret
SUVA: 27th September 2006 -- Bosconet is pleased to offer a range of new resources to follow up two important events of 2006, one just past, the other to come: the EAO Brothers' Assembly concluded in August, and the 150th anniversay of the death of Mamma Margaret in November.
Not from EAO, but from its near neighbour, the South Asia Region, comes a series of very useful resources on the Salesian Brother focused on the introduction, in Shillong, of a Diploma Course in Theology (DCT) for Brothers of that Region. This is the work of Brother Abraham Antony, currently doing a doctorate in Rome. Brother Antony has kindly offered EAO and Bosconet the materials he has prepared, and he has adapted them for publishing on the web. They are available from Bosconet - you can either go via the usual route to the Brothers' general material, or the Assembly06 or, for the moment, to the 'what's new this week' section and click there. All items are downloadable as a Word file.
We learn from the Philippines that some concrete steps have been undertaken in the wake of the August Assembly in Cambodia. Bro Mon writes that in the FIN province (and at times involving FIS as well), the two monthly meetings with pre and post novices will resume and the first talk will be about the Salesian Brother vocation as lived in the EAO region. Quarterly gatherings of all Salesian Brothers (there are 30 throughout the FIN province territory, including PNG-SI) have been planned through until May 2007, and a monthly conference for Brothers has been planned for the Seminaryo ng Don Bosco where there are currently 4 Brothers (3 Korean 1 Filipino) doing specific formation. We also learn that the Luzon Association of Salesian Brothers, with Bro Mon as its chairman, will be holding an Assembly in October titled 'The Passion to tbe Brothers Today'.
And Mamma Margaret? We know that the excellent work by Teresio Bosco is available as a well-published item from GBR Province. The price of this book for the Salesian Family is £5, (plus postage overseas) available from joan@salesians.org.uk Some mission areas have found even that text a little long for the purposes of getting Mamma Margaret's Life into the hands of simple, good mums in rural mission areas. Accordingly, Bosconet now makes available a shortened life of Mamma Margaret, written by Fr Joseph Aubry and largely unknown in the English-speaking world. You will find it by scrolling down the Bosconet homepage until the very bottom right under 'Special, Other'. It runs into just 6 A4 pages. A strong hint: there are two formats available - rtf, which is openable in Word, and odt which is openable in OpenOffice Writer. If you choose the latter, ie if you have downloaded the free OpenOffice suite (and why not, after all it is free), then printing it as a booklet is a breeze - just go to page orientation and choose 'landscape', then 'options' and click 'brochure' and print! All your page numbers will be correctly organised for adjacent pages. This version is now finding its way into Arabic and possibly Tetum.
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New resources, new steps taken: Salesian Brother, Mamma Margaret
SUVA: 27th September 2006 -- Bosconet is pleased to offer a range of new resources to follow up two important events of 2006, one just past, the other to come: the EAO Brothers' Assembly concluded in August, and the 150th anniversay of the death of Mamma Margaret in November.
Not from EAO, but from its near neighbour, the South Asia Region, comes a series of very useful resources on the Salesian Brother focused on the introduction, in Shillong, of a Diploma Course in Theology (DCT) for Brothers of that Region. This is the work of Brother Abraham Antony, currently doing a doctorate in Rome. Brother Antony has kindly offered EAO and Bosconet the materials he has prepared, and he has adapted them for publishing on the web. They are available from Bosconet - you can either go via the usual route to the Brothers' general material, or the Assembly06 or, for the moment, to the 'what's new this week' section and click there. All items are downloadable as a Word file.
We learn from the Philippines that some concrete steps have been undertaken in the wake of the August Assembly in Cambodia. Bro Mon writes that in the FIN province (and at times involving FIS as well), the two monthly meetings with pre and post novices will resume and the first talk will be about the Salesian Brother vocation as lived in the EAO region. Quarterly gatherings of all Salesian Brothers (there are 30 throughout the FIN province territory, including PNG-SI) have been planned through until May 2007, and a monthly conference for Brothers has been planned for the Seminaryo ng Don Bosco where there are currently 4 Brothers (3 Korean 1 Filipino) doing specific formation. We also learn that the Luzon Association of Salesian Brothers, with Bro Mon as its chairman, will be holding an Assembly in October titled 'The Passion to tbe Brothers Today'.
And Mamma Margaret? We know that the excellent work by Teresio Bosco is available as a well-published item from GBR Province. The price of this book for the Salesian Family is £5, (plus postage overseas) available from joan@salesians.org.uk Some mission areas have found even that text a little long for the purposes of getting Mamma Margaret's Life into the hands of simple, good mums in rural mission areas. Accordingly, Bosconet now makes available a shortened life of Mamma Margaret, written by Fr Joseph Aubry and largely unknown in the English-speaking world. You will find it by scrolling down the Bosconet homepage until the very bottom right under 'Special, Other'. It runs into just 6 A4 pages. A strong hint: there are two formats available - rtf, which is openable in Word, and odt which is openable in OpenOffice Writer. If you choose the latter, ie if you have downloaded the free OpenOffice suite (and why not, after all it is free), then printing it as a booklet is a breeze - just go to page orientation and choose 'landscape', then 'options' and click 'brochure' and print! All your page numbers will be correctly organised for adjacent pages. This version is now finding its way into Arabic and possibly Tetum.
___________________
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.
