austraLasia #3031

Jakarta hosts EAO Provincials and YM Delegates meeting

JAKARTA: 9 March 2012 --  The provincials, superiors of delegations and youth ministry delegates from the East Asia Oceania Region have just finished their four day meeting. It started last Monday, the 5th of March with the animating presence of Fr Fabio Attard, SDB and Fr Andy Wong, SDB. Several sessions were attended by both the Provincials and the youth ministry delegates, yet there were also sessions when the provincials met by themselves. All the 36 Salesians stayed in the retreat house of the Canossian Sisters in Bintaro, Jakarta City. 

Aware of the various Salesian initiatives related to the crescendo of preparations for the bicentenial celebration of Don Bosco's birth, the participants discussed the rethinking of the Salesian youth apostolate among the young, looking at ways to remain faithful to the apostolic zeal of Don Bosco while increasing the quality of the intended impact of Salesian youth ministry among the young and in the Church. The youth ministry delegates intend to carry out this rethinking process in themselves first, at the personal level, as a fitting devotion to St. John Bosco.

Led by Fr. Boedi (Boedirahardjo Soerjonoto), SDB, the fifth day (Friday) will be used for a cultural tour in the pavilions of Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII - Indonesia in Miniature ) and to visit the postnovitiate community in Sunter.