austraLasia

?

Shortcut

PrevPrev Article

NextNext Article

Larger Font Smaller Font Up Down Go comment Print Attachment
Views 4637 Comment 0
20150411_CAM.jpg


By Albeiro Rodas: 

(Kep City & Sihanoukville, Cambodia) The Kingdom of Cambodia celebrates its New Year following the Buddhist calendar that will begin on April 16. It marks also the beginning of the rainy season, a natural event that Cambodian farmers wait anxiously in a country where 80% of its population lives from agriculture.


The Don Bosco Technical Schools of Cambodia, which is deeply rooted in the ancient Cambodian traditions, dedicate time to celebrate the local culture with the young people.


On April 10, a day before the Khmer New Year holidays, the Salesians held the Thanksgiving Day which is also a Day of the Community and Parents’ Day.


The Thanksgiving Day (Tnay Kothinnuo in Khmer) or Reawakened Day, consists in showing honor to the parents. The children come during the New Year’s Eve and bath their parents - As you bathed me when I was a baby, now I bath you to pay respects to you. As schools go to holiday, the ceremony is done one week before the Khmer New Year in most national schools.


This is an opportunity to pay respects to Don Bosco as the Father, Teacher and Friend of the Cambodian youth. They also invite the parents and tutors of the students.


In Sihanoukville students and teachers wash his statue that stands in the center of the campus caring for a poor Cambodian boy. The students wash the feet and hands of teachers and of Salesians as well. When they do it, they ask forgiveness for any mistake they may have committed during the year, as well as to wish the new Cambodian year full of happiness.


The washing ceremony approximates also the annual commemoration of the Last Supper where Jesus washes the feet of the Disciples: "You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am. If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet."​ (John 13: 13)​


20150411_CAM0.jpg

Happy Khmer New Year from Don Bosco Kep.


20150411_CAM1.jpg

Students of Don Bosco Kep paying respect to their parents. 


20150411_CAM3.jpg

​Teachers wash the statue of Don Bosco, an image where the Father of the Youth walks with a poor Cambodian boy.


20150411_CAM4.jpg

​Fr. John Visser, Rector of Sihanoukville, blesses the students and open officially the Khmer New Year in the Don Bosco school.


Attach

Drag and drop your files here, or Click attach files button.

Maximum File Size : 0MB (Allowed extentsions : *.*)

0 file(s) attached ( / )

  1. 5644_Learning from each other - Timor Leste Federation of DB Past Pupils

    By President's Report Dili, Timor Leste (RDTL), 5 July 2021 -- Each EAO regional event brings a lot of valuable charismatic experience, inspiration and wisdom together. The recent 12th Asia-Oceania Don Bosco Past Pupils Congress 'ON...
    Date2021.07.05 CategoryEXDB Reply0 Views917 file
    Read More
  2. 5643(II)_Why the Caritas sisters take to the streets every Friday

    By Sr Lena CSJ Seoul, South Korea, 4 July 2021 -- Since May 2020 the Caritas Sisters of Jesus have been living up to Pope Francis' advice since the special anniversary of Laudato Si', in solidarity with the Catholic Climate Action a...
    Date2021.07.04 CategoryKOR Reply0 Views907 file
    Read More
  3. 5643(I)_Carlo Gastini, A poet of Valdocco (1833-1902)

    Finally the biography of their Founder - Past Pupils By our own correspondent Sacro Cuore, Rome, 4 July 2021 -- Who is the founder of the Past Pupils of Don Bosco? Of course, Don Bosco himself! - the answer we often hear from the Salesians ...
    Date2021.07.04 CategoryEXDB Reply1 Views1390 file
    Read More
  4. 5642_Fr. George P. Militante, SDB enters the Salesian Garden

    By FIS Social Communications Cebu, The Philippines, 2 July 2021 -- At around 3:00 PM on July 1, 2021, Fr. George P. Militante, SDB returned to the Lord. Fr. George was about to turn 69 this year but his battle with cancer overtook him. Jovi...
    Date2021.07.03 CategoryFIS Reply0 Views1038 file
    Read More
  5. 5641_Called to something ‘beyond’

    By Christopher William Lee, Volunteer Christopher (28) is a registered nurse from Florida, USA. He comes from a family of eight children whom he says are: “crazy and awesome at the same time”. Florida is hot and lined with palm ...
    Date2021.07.01 CategoryPGS Reply0 Views1118 file
    Read More
  6. 5640_The Thai Salesian Past Pupils at the 12th Asia-Oceania Don Bosco Past Pupils' Congress

    By THA SC Bangkok, Thailand, 29 June 2021 -- Bro. Thanad Anan, SDB, the Salesian delegate for the past pupils of Thailand, together with 3 representatives of the past pupils, joined the online 12th Congress of the Salesian Past Pupils of As...
    Date2021.06.29 CategoryEXDB Reply1 Views944 file
    Read More
  7. 5639(II)_New Rector for the Theologate of the VIE Province

    By Br. Pham hong Phuoc, SDB Blessed Philip Rinaldi Theologate, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, 28 June 2021 -- At 10 a.m. on Saturday 26 June 2021, Fr Joseph Le Ngoc Anh, the newly appointed rector of the Blessed Philip Rinaldi Theologate of the...
    Date2021.06.28 CategoryVIE Reply0 Views738 file
    Read More
  8. 5639(I)_Visions and expectations of the Mission

    By Fr. Arjuna Lamapaha, SDB Salesian Priest recently ordained as priest on 7 October 2020 He hails from the vice-province of Indonesia (INA), belongs to the 151st Missionary Expedition He is sent on Mission Ad Gentes to the vice-province of...
    Date2021.06.28 CategoryPGS Reply0 Views729 file
    Read More
  9. 5638(II)_12th Asia-Oceania Congress: Awakening and rejuvenating a sleeping giant

    By AO Congress steering committee Asia-Oceania PPDB Region, 27 June 2021 -- Just another Regional Congress of Don Bosco Past Pupils? Not really! The now completed 12th Asia-Oceania Regional Congress of Don Bosco Past Pupils without doubt is...
    Date2021.06.27 CategoryEXDB Reply2 Views1099 file
    Read More
  10. 5638(I)_53rd and 1st Graduation Ceremony in Taipei

    By our Taiwan correspondent Taipei, Taiwan, 27 June 2021 -- Saturday 26 June 2021, the Jesuit-run Fu Jen Faculty of Theology of Saint Robert Bellarmine held its 53rd Graduation Ceremony. For us Salesians of Don Bosco, however, who three yea...
    Date2021.06.27 CategoryCIN Reply0 Views1006 file
    Read More
List
Board Pagination Prev 1 ... 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 ... 533 Next
/ 533