One novice, following an apendectomy three days ago, gained doctor's permission to return for the event. The Provincial, Fr Andres Calleja, fetched him from the hospital early in the morning and they braved the two-hour battle with traffic across the city of Jakarta, so that the novice could join his companions at the Mass and the rite of profession at 10:30 a.m.
Five brothers and twelve clerical candidates have now been added to the number of confreres in the vice province of Indonesia-East Timor (ITM). There were an additional ten newly professed confreres from the Novitiate in Fatumaca, East Timor. Together, the seventeen will now continue their post-novitiate formation in the designated houses of formation.
In the evening of the same day, the Tigaraksa Novitiate formators have welcomed the next batch of twelve candidates who had applied to enter the novitiate for this new cycle. May this inspire the beginning of more holy Salesian presences in the seventeen thousand islands of Indonesia, and the birth of more missionaries.
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