austraLasia #1928
"I, Thomas...": PNG insight into vocation promotion
VUNABOSCO (Kokopo PNG): 20th August 2007 -- Six final year students out of a group of twelve who belong to the Vunabosco Agrotech school community Year 12 vocation group, applied formally for entry into the Salesian aspirantate in PNG at a ceremony on 19th August celebrating 'Don Bosco Day'. The celebrations might normally take place on 16th August, Don Bosco's birthday, but the school moved this to the 19th this year. The ceremony of application took place during the Eucharist celebrated on that day and before hundreds of schoolmates, family and friends.
Because of the intense and obviously fruitful vocational promotion work done at Vunabosco (there are vocation groups at various levels in the school with 10-15 boys in each) it has been identified as the pre-aspirantate community for the Delegation. There are just four Salesians in the community, including two practical trainees (one from Indonesia, one local).
'Thomas', one of those who applied, offers an example of the kind of life story one finds in this context. He had spent two years at the Salesian school in Kumgi in the Central Highlands, and has now completed his two final years at Vunabosco on New Britain. He is one of 600 students there, 200 of whom are boarders. Thomas, who begins his application with "I, Thomas...", goes on to point out that he was "moved by the ways and actions of some Salesians" in both Kumgi and Kokopo, and that these "really struck my heart to be part of the family".
If Thomas is successful in his application, he will go on to Don Bosco Technical Institute in Port Moresby where he will indeed become an aspirant and begin the long road towards his dream of being a son of Don Bosco.
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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 . Use BoscoWiki to be interactive. RSS feeds - subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/RSS/rssala.xml Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at at http://sdl.sdb.org
"I, Thomas...": PNG insight into vocation promotion
VUNABOSCO (Kokopo PNG): 20th August 2007 -- Six final year students out of a group of twelve who belong to the Vunabosco Agrotech school community Year 12 vocation group, applied formally for entry into the Salesian aspirantate in PNG at a ceremony on 19th August celebrating 'Don Bosco Day'. The celebrations might normally take place on 16th August, Don Bosco's birthday, but the school moved this to the 19th this year. The ceremony of application took place during the Eucharist celebrated on that day and before hundreds of schoolmates, family and friends.
Because of the intense and obviously fruitful vocational promotion work done at Vunabosco (there are vocation groups at various levels in the school with 10-15 boys in each) it has been identified as the pre-aspirantate community for the Delegation. There are just four Salesians in the community, including two practical trainees (one from Indonesia, one local).
'Thomas', one of those who applied, offers an example of the kind of life story one finds in this context. He had spent two years at the Salesian school in Kumgi in the Central Highlands, and has now completed his two final years at Vunabosco on New Britain. He is one of 600 students there, 200 of whom are boarders. Thomas, who begins his application with "I, Thomas...", goes on to point out that he was "moved by the ways and actions of some Salesians" in both Kumgi and Kokopo, and that these "really struck my heart to be part of the family".
If Thomas is successful in his application, he will go on to Don Bosco Technical Institute in Port Moresby where he will indeed become an aspirant and begin the long road towards his dream of being a son of Don Bosco.
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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 . Use BoscoWiki to be interactive. RSS feeds - subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/RSS/rssala.xml Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at at http://sdl.sdb.org
