austraLasia #2978
Trisolini Memorial Album - Inspiration for Future Generations
SEOUL: 29 December 2011 -- A rather remarkable album has landed up on my desk. Red-leather bound, with Fr Jack Trisolini's signature in gold on the front cover in Korean, and in English on the back cover. 443 pages of colour, black and white, and sepia photos of Jack since he was a baby, but with a major focus on his 50 plus years as a Salesian missionary in Korea, working amongst the workers. This wonderful account of the life of a faithful missionary and apostle amongst the poor is the work of the Seoul Archdiocese and in particular the Labor Pastoral Commission which Jack headed up for many years.
The Album was produced for the first anniversary of Fr Trisolini's death, on November 22, 201. The Vicar General of the Archdiocese, Bishop Andrew Yeom Soo-jung has this to say in his opening commendation: "Fr Trsiolini, like the Founder of the Salesian Society, St John Bosco, gave his life as a missionary to poor youth, migrant workers, women and multicultural families, never forgetting to seek out those who were lost. He sought to determine the cause of the troubles he met, and judged the best methods to alleviate the situation. He didn't stop there - he helped people make the changes in their lives they needed to make, and stood by their sides while they did so". The bishop first met Jack 40 yeas ago when he (the bishop) was a deacon.
In his own comments, a little further on in the opening pages, Fr Stephen Nam, Salesian Provincial of KOR, points out that "Fr Trisolini was the founder of many of our local Salesian communities in Korea: he served the community as treasurer at times, and was the local superior of communities where he served as a loving father...Most especially he lived as a poor man....Had he lived another year, he would have returned to our Salesian community". Jack had needed time to organise a smooth transition to another leader of the Labor Pastoral Commission. But the Lord intervened, anyway!
The retired Archbishop of Gwangiu is another who writes in the Album: "It is difficult to communicate the life of a happy priest in a brief biography, but through this effort I think that the reader will be able to feel how one priest, spending his life in this country spreading the love of God, lived and died in God's service".
All in all a fitting tribute to a great man.
Trisolini Memorial Album - Inspiration for Future Generations
The Album was produced for the first anniversary of Fr Trisolini's death, on November 22, 201. The Vicar General of the Archdiocese, Bishop Andrew Yeom Soo-jung has this to say in his opening commendation: "Fr Trsiolini, like the Founder of the Salesian Society, St John Bosco, gave his life as a missionary to poor youth, migrant workers, women and multicultural families, never forgetting to seek out those who were lost. He sought to determine the cause of the troubles he met, and judged the best methods to alleviate the situation. He didn't stop there - he helped people make the changes in their lives they needed to make, and stood by their sides while they did so". The bishop first met Jack 40 yeas ago when he (the bishop) was a deacon.
In his own comments, a little further on in the opening pages, Fr Stephen Nam, Salesian Provincial of KOR, points out that "Fr Trisolini was the founder of many of our local Salesian communities in Korea: he served the community as treasurer at times, and was the local superior of communities where he served as a loving father...Most especially he lived as a poor man....Had he lived another year, he would have returned to our Salesian community". Jack had needed time to organise a smooth transition to another leader of the Labor Pastoral Commission. But the Lord intervened, anyway!
The retired Archbishop of Gwangiu is another who writes in the Album: "It is difficult to communicate the life of a happy priest in a brief biography, but through this effort I think that the reader will be able to feel how one priest, spending his life in this country spreading the love of God, lived and died in God's service".
All in all a fitting tribute to a great man.
