austraLasia #2656
KOR: A most unusual set of minutes!
SEOUL: 7th June 2010 -- Perhaps it is the recent reminders of our mortality, or as the following Minutes put it, just 'following Natural Law', but whatever it is, amongst the more unusual of items to cross the desk (AKA download!) today the following arrived from Korea Province:
"Fr. Provincial put forward the idea on June 29 2009, the 70th Birthday of Fr. Paul Kim. We sent the confreres the results of the preliminary study on December 8th 2009.
In that letter we pointed out the conditions for belonging to a most exclusive, and at the same time, inescapable club, following Natural Law. The only condition in fact for belonging to this new club was to have arrived at 70 years of age.
The purposes of the club are as follows:
1. To remind its members to make good use of the short or long time that they still may have.
2. To advise each other fraternally in order to correct the defects that they still may have.
3. To encourage each other to become exemplary religious, and possibly even saints.
4. To be patient and diligent and give good example to young Salesians.
5. To be good friends among themselves, forgiving each other for past unhappy events.
6. To exchange useful information and ideas about health and virtue amongst themselves .
7. To write a periodical publication or newsletter, sharing this information, these ideas.
8. To meet once or twice every year to spend time together in brotherly love.
9. To pray for each other and for young Salesians, who don't have much time to pray.
In the Provincial Bulletin for January 2010 we published the list of the members: the most recent member who, according to oriental calculation, turned 70 years of age on Jan 1 2010, the Year of the Tiger, was Bishop Luc Van Looy, (born in 1941)! This resulted in the following membership: 2 Americans, 2 Belgians, 4 Koreans and 2 Spaniards. 10 all up.
At the beginning of May 2010 we sent out an official Invitation for the First Conventio planned for May 24th 2010.
The Program was as follows:
11:30 a.m. Concelebration for the Feast day, Fr. Provincial presides
After the Mass the commemorative photo wearing commemorative caps.
12:30 p.m. Luncheon served in the Provincial House dining room.
After the luncheon the First Coffee Meeting until 3:00 p.m.
Seven of the ten eligible members attended and participated actively and wholeheartedly in the program, two for health reasons, and one because of distance, were unable to participate.
The next meeting will be the last Monday of November, Month of the Hoy Souls.
Report given in Seoul, June 6 2010, by the chronicler of the Club, Fr. Joe M. Banco".
Now, how about that!
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KOR: A most unusual set of minutes!
SEOUL: 7th June 2010 -- Perhaps it is the recent reminders of our mortality, or as the following Minutes put it, just 'following Natural Law', but whatever it is, amongst the more unusual of items to cross the desk (AKA download!) today the following arrived from Korea Province:
"Fr. Provincial put forward the idea on June 29 2009, the 70th Birthday of Fr. Paul Kim. We sent the confreres the results of the preliminary study on December 8th 2009.
In that letter we pointed out the conditions for belonging to a most exclusive, and at the same time, inescapable club, following Natural Law. The only condition in fact for belonging to this new club was to have arrived at 70 years of age.
The purposes of the club are as follows:
1. To remind its members to make good use of the short or long time that they still may have.
2. To advise each other fraternally in order to correct the defects that they still may have.
3. To encourage each other to become exemplary religious, and possibly even saints.
4. To be patient and diligent and give good example to young Salesians.
5. To be good friends among themselves, forgiving each other for past unhappy events.
6. To exchange useful information and ideas about health and virtue amongst themselves .
7. To write a periodical publication or newsletter, sharing this information, these ideas.
8. To meet once or twice every year to spend time together in brotherly love.
9. To pray for each other and for young Salesians, who don't have much time to pray.
In the Provincial Bulletin for January 2010 we published the list of the members: the most recent member who, according to oriental calculation, turned 70 years of age on Jan 1 2010, the Year of the Tiger, was Bishop Luc Van Looy, (born in 1941)! This resulted in the following membership: 2 Americans, 2 Belgians, 4 Koreans and 2 Spaniards. 10 all up.
At the beginning of May 2010 we sent out an official Invitation for the First Conventio planned for May 24th 2010.
The Program was as follows:
11:30 a.m. Concelebration for the Feast day, Fr. Provincial presides
After the Mass the commemorative photo wearing commemorative caps.
12:30 p.m. Luncheon served in the Provincial House dining room.
After the luncheon the First Coffee Meeting until 3:00 p.m.
Seven of the ten eligible members attended and participated actively and wholeheartedly in the program, two for health reasons, and one because of distance, were unable to participate.
The next meeting will be the last Monday of November, Month of the Hoy Souls.
Report given in Seoul, June 6 2010, by the chronicler of the Club, Fr. Joe M. Banco".
Now, how about that!
_________________
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 Bosconet-wiki to be interactive. RSS feeds - just go to Bosconet, click on austraLasia 2009 in the sidebar. You will see the RSS orange icon in your browser address bar - add it from there. Or be interactive with the EAO blog Cetera Tolle. Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at http://sdl.sdb.org
