austraLasia #1936
Manila-Paranaque Curatorium meeting
MANILA-PARANAQUE: 31st August 2007 -- The Salesian 'Ratio', otherwise known as the Formation of Salesians of Don Bosco, speaks of the management of inter-province Study Centres as follows:
"Interprovincial collaboration for a studentate or study centre implies the creation and proper functioning of an entity holding shared responsibility (for example a 'curatorium')".
Such a body, involving provincials or their delegates from six provinces or vice provinces in the EAO Region, met in the presence of the Regional Councillor, Fr Klement, at Seminaryo ng Don Bosco at Paranaque, south of Manila, on 30th August. The provinces or vice provinces represented were from FIN, FIS, ITM, KOR, THA, VIE. The meeting was moderated by the Provincial for Philippines North, Fr Andrew Wong.
The Paranaque complex is a single compound but involves two entities: the Seminaryo ng Don Bosco and the Don Bosco Centre of Studies. Numbers in these centres have grown, as a result of the inter-provincial collaboration backed by an agreement forged at a meeting of EAO Provincials in Melbourne this year. But the process had already begun following the Team Visit for the Region at Hua Hin in 2005.
The Salesians involved in the studentate community, 65 in all between staff and students, are drawn from five provinces. Thailand, represented at the meeting, currently doesn't have students there. The nationalities of the students are more than five, however, especially as a number of young missionary students (e.g. for PNG-SI) are there, some of them from India and Sri Lanka. Salesian students involve those doing theology, as well as those doing an English language course (all from Korea), and a Brothers formation course. The number of students overall, in the complex, however, involves more than 500 since Paranaque, besides being a centre of theological studies (the faculty is affiliated with the UPS in Rome), is also a centre of formation for the laity and an institute for catechetics and youth ministry.
One of the issues that occupied the time of the Provincials in their meeting, was the development also of facilities for Salesian Brother formation. Specific formation for Brothers is an issue being tackled in the Salesian world by concentrating formation opportunities in approved centres such as the Paranaque one.
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Manila-Paranaque Curatorium meeting
MANILA-PARANAQUE: 31st August 2007 -- The Salesian 'Ratio', otherwise known as the Formation of Salesians of Don Bosco, speaks of the management of inter-province Study Centres as follows:
"Interprovincial collaboration for a studentate or study centre implies the creation and proper functioning of an entity holding shared responsibility (for example a 'curatorium')".
Such a body, involving provincials or their delegates from six provinces or vice provinces in the EAO Region, met in the presence of the Regional Councillor, Fr Klement, at Seminaryo ng Don Bosco at Paranaque, south of Manila, on 30th August. The provinces or vice provinces represented were from FIN, FIS, ITM, KOR, THA, VIE. The meeting was moderated by the Provincial for Philippines North, Fr Andrew Wong.
The Paranaque complex is a single compound but involves two entities: the Seminaryo ng Don Bosco and the Don Bosco Centre of Studies. Numbers in these centres have grown, as a result of the inter-provincial collaboration backed by an agreement forged at a meeting of EAO Provincials in Melbourne this year. But the process had already begun following the Team Visit for the Region at Hua Hin in 2005.
The Salesians involved in the studentate community, 65 in all between staff and students, are drawn from five provinces. Thailand, represented at the meeting, currently doesn't have students there. The nationalities of the students are more than five, however, especially as a number of young missionary students (e.g. for PNG-SI) are there, some of them from India and Sri Lanka. Salesian students involve those doing theology, as well as those doing an English language course (all from Korea), and a Brothers formation course. The number of students overall, in the complex, however, involves more than 500 since Paranaque, besides being a centre of theological studies (the faculty is affiliated with the UPS in Rome), is also a centre of formation for the laity and an institute for catechetics and youth ministry.
One of the issues that occupied the time of the Provincials in their meeting, was the development also of facilities for Salesian Brother formation. Specific formation for Brothers is an issue being tackled in the Salesian world by concentrating formation opportunities in approved centres such as the Paranaque one.
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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
