2011 - MISSION STUDY DAYS (SAMPRAN, THAILAND) 

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Initial Proclamation and the Salesian Mission."  

The Initial Proclamation Today (by Fr. Alfred Maravilla) 

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Acts of the Study Days

 on the Salesian Mission

and the Initial Proclamation of Christ

in the Three-fold Context of East Asia

 

August 14 – 18, 2011

 Sampran, Thailand

  

edited by

 Alfred Maravilla

 SDB Missions Department & FMA Sector for Mission ad/inter Gentes

Rome  2013

 Table of Contents

 

 

INTRODUCTION

Listen!………………………………………………………………………………….. 

The Study Days …....……..……………………………………………………………………………….. 

 

What Do We “Say” about Jesus to the Peoples of East Asia?….…………………………………….. X

Sr. Alaíde Deretti FMA, General Councillor for Mission ad/inter Gentes

 

Rediscover the Dynamics of Initial Proclamation in East Asia…..……………………….. X

Fr. Václav Klement SDB, General Councillor for the Missions

 

An Overview of the Topic of Study Days  from Prague to Sampran …………..  X

Fr. Alfred Maravilla  SDB

 

PART I. ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION

An Analysis of our Situation in East Asia…………………….…………………..………….  X

Sr. Alma Castagna FMA

 

Initial Proclamation in East Asia

in FABC Documents and in Ecclesia in Asia ……………………………………………….. X

Fr.Joseph Phouc SDB

 

PART II. STUDY & REFLECTION

Initial Proclamation of Christ

in the multicultural Settings through Storytelling…..……………………….. X

Fr. Cyril Niphot Thienvihan

 

A Response to Cyril Niphot Thienvihan …………………….. X

Fr. Fidel Orendain SDB

 

Initial Proclamation and Outreach Programs for Poorer Sectors of Society..….   X

Mr. Vivat Lauhabut

 

A Response to Vivat Lauhabut…………..……………………………………..   X

Fr. Lanfranco M. Fedrigotti SDB

 

Initial Proclamation in a Multireligious Context

Through Dialogue of Life…..…………………………….……………………….. X

Fr. François Ponchaud MEP

 

A Response to François Ponchaud  ………………..………………………….. X

Sr. Teresa Furukawa Chieko FMA  

 

PART III. FORMULATING CONCLUSIONS

Emerging Perspectives during these Study Days

in view of a Renewed Missionary Praxis …………….…………………..  X

Fr. Joseph Phuoc SDB & Sr. Alma Castagna FMA

 

Practical Proposals …………………………………. ………………………..   X

Practical Proposals – FMA

Practical Proposals – SDB

 

PART IV. STORYTELLING

Kolbe is an Example of Virtue …………..……………………………………..  X

Different Routes to Baptism….…………..……………………………………..  X

The Poor are Evangelizing Us! …………….………………………..………..  X

The Cost of her Christian Faith…………….………………………………..  X

Our Martyrs’ Heroism Attracts…………….……………………………..  X

Faith Lived through Charity ……..……………………………………..  X

Stories of Hong Kong Neophytes……………………………………..  X

 

 

CLOSING REMARKS

Three Words to Remember this Meeting……………………………………..   X

Sr. Alaíde Deretti FMA

A Renewed Commitment to Initial Proclamation …………………..   X

Fr. Václav Klement SDB

 

 

THE STUDY DAYS IN THE LIGHT OF THE WORD OF GOD

Sr. Maria Ko Ha Fong

The Encounter of Jesus with Three Different Persons in Different Contexts (John 3-4) …

“What Are You Looking For?”  “Come and See” (Jn 1, 35-42a) ………...…………….…..

How Many Loaves Do You Have?  Go and See!  (Mk 6, 30-44) ………

 “Go Up and Join that Chariot!” (Acts 8, 2)………

Mary the “first Evangelised” and the “first Evangeliser”  (1Cor 8,1-23) ……………………

Mary the Alph and the Omega of Time.  A Reflection on the Solemnity of the Assumption …

 

ACTIVITY SHEETS

FOR COMMUNITY MEETINGS OF ONGOING FORMATION

 

1. Sharing the Word ………………………..………………..…………..………

2. Initial Proclamation…………………...............……………

3. Initial Proclamation. What Is It?...............…………………………………….  

4. Attracted by Jesus to Attract Others………………………………….. 

5. Storytelling: Sharing my Faith Experience  …………………………..  

6. Dialogue with Our Brothers and Sisters of East Asia …...……………………

7. Examples of Initial Proclamation ………………….………………..……………

8. Witnessing to Jesus Christ the Saviour, Who Took Flesh as an Asian !…...……………

9. Saint Francis de Sales: Heart Speaks to Heart …………….. .  

10. Sharing the Gift of Jesus ………….…………..………………..……………………………

 

APPENDICES

 

1. East Asia and the Challenges of Mission ad Gentes

(Hua Hin, Thailand     July 30  – August 3, 2004) ……….……………….…………

 

2. Evangelisation and Interreligious Dialogue

(Hua Hin, Thailand, May 10 - 16, 1998) …………..…………….………………

 

3. Uniqueness of Salvation in Jesus Christ and the Need of Primary Evangelization

(Previous Missionary Animation and Formation Seminars) ………………….…………………

 

4. Christian Witness in a Multireligious World Recommendations for Conduct………………

Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, World Council of Churches, World Evangelical Alliance

 

5. The Evangelizing Mission of the Church in Contemporary Asia ………

Excerpts from the Final Statement of the FABC, Fifth Plenary Assembly (1990)

 

6. Initial Proclamation in Catholic Educational Institutions ..………

Secrétariat Général de l'Enseignement Catholique, France

 

7. Young People and Religion in Our Secular Age .……..……………..…

 

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ……..……………………..…………