austraLasia #2891
ADMA reforms in earnest in Japan
TOKYO: 18 July 2011 -- Sunday 17 July was an especially fortuitous occasion in Salesian Japan. The first 17 members of ADMA (the Mary Help of Christians Association) made their promise. The ceremony was simple but heartfelt, and was held in the Provincial House chapel. Two aspirants and the ecclesiastical assistants for ADMA were also present.
Fr Mario Yamanouchi, Salesian Vice Provincial, and Sr Teresina Matsumoto have accompanied and guided the group zealously, through monthly well-prepared and well-attended meetings.
The ceremony was presided over by the Provincial, Fr Aldo Cipriani who, at the beginning of his mandate in 2009, had asked and urged confreres to do their best to form the ADMA group once again. 'Once again', because at the beginning of the Japanese mission, in the times of Mons. Cimatti, there were various ADMA groups. Unfortunately the groups were abandoned during the heady days and changes of the 1960s and 70s.
The Rector Major sent a message for the occasion, recalling, amongst other things that this is "and extraordinary event and concerns the entire ADMA Association throughout the world". "It represents", he said, "a great sign of hope, inasmuch as devotion to Mary Help of Christians fostered by our Father and Founder Don Bosco, and a vital element in in our charism, has taken one its most significant forms in this Association".
Four of the new members, accompanied by Fr Mario Yamanouchi, will take part in the 6th International ADMA Congress to be held at Czestochowa later this year.
It is our fond hope that this will be the first of many ADMA groups to emerge in the future, alongside the various Salesian Family works in Japan.
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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 . RSS feeds - just go to Bosconet, click on austraLasia 2011 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
ADMA reforms in earnest in Japan
TOKYO: 18 July 2011 -- Sunday 17 July was an especially fortuitous occasion in Salesian Japan. The first 17 members of ADMA (the Mary Help of Christians Association) made their promise. The ceremony was simple but heartfelt, and was held in the Provincial House chapel. Two aspirants and the ecclesiastical assistants for ADMA were also present.
Fr Mario Yamanouchi, Salesian Vice Provincial, and Sr Teresina Matsumoto have accompanied and guided the group zealously, through monthly well-prepared and well-attended meetings.
The ceremony was presided over by the Provincial, Fr Aldo Cipriani who, at the beginning of his mandate in 2009, had asked and urged confreres to do their best to form the ADMA group once again. 'Once again', because at the beginning of the Japanese mission, in the times of Mons. Cimatti, there were various ADMA groups. Unfortunately the groups were abandoned during the heady days and changes of the 1960s and 70s.
The Rector Major sent a message for the occasion, recalling, amongst other things that this is "and extraordinary event and concerns the entire ADMA Association throughout the world". "It represents", he said, "a great sign of hope, inasmuch as devotion to Mary Help of Christians fostered by our Father and Founder Don Bosco, and a vital element in in our charism, has taken one its most significant forms in this Association".
Four of the new members, accompanied by Fr Mario Yamanouchi, will take part in the 6th International ADMA Congress to be held at Czestochowa later this year.
It is our fond hope that this will be the first of many ADMA groups to emerge in the future, alongside the various Salesian Family works in Japan.
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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 . RSS feeds - just go to Bosconet, click on austraLasia 2011 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
