austraLasia #3166
ROME: 7 December 2012 -- Yes, we know it's been quiet on the news front this past fortnight, but that's not your fault! The 'fault' is e-devotion! A word of explanation and an invitation.
Some two years ago now, at a meeting of webmasters from various parts of the Salesian world, a lay person, a female wbemaster who is not Catholic but very much part of the Salesian enterprise and quite epxlicitly engrossed with and engaged in Don Bosco's charism, made this simple point: "My job requires that I often visit Salesian sites in a range of languages around the world [she speaks English, Spanish and Italian in addition to her own language, German]. I have noted that they have wonderful amounts of information but in almost no instance do they offer what I, as a Christian and a person deeply involved in Salesian matters, might really be looking for - I am looking for help with my spirituality, and I want it to be a Salesian spirituality as well".
That comment struck home, but the real wuaesiton was how to respond to it. It has taken two years, but e-devotion is, for now, the response.
E-devotion is in five languages for now; it could be in others, but it would need the people who are willing to translate and also find material in that language, no easy task. It is not so muhc invitation about prayer as an invitation to prayer. Just getting to this point has been almost a 24/7 job for a month, which explains a vertain hiatus in other activities, but at least we can say it is up and running.
Now, it is not perfect, and you can of course (and are invited to) offer constructive criticism, but what we really want is to ask your solid help by way of practical (and practicable) idea and materials. Our Region is not short of people who have already taken a leap into all kinds of "e" approaches, from blogs, to lectio divina to - you name it. But a handful (it boils down to two) people here simply cannot do all the work of hunting up material in 5 languages, then coding it and so forth. We are happy to code it - but we need the material in the first place.
So - an open invitation - at least for English. If you are also a native speaker of Spanish or Italian, French or Portuguese, feel free to offer material for those languages too. Do you have something that could be suitable? Send it or a link to it, please. Have you put helpful videos or audio material online? Could we have/use it (better to have it than to link to it )?
Why not take your own tour through the material and try to see what is there, what is lacking and what you could suggest.
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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com . RSS feeds - just go to Bosconet, click on austraLasia 2011 in the sidebar. You will see the RSS orange icon in your browser address bar - add it from there. Or be interactive with the EAO blog Cetera Tolle. Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at http://sdl.sdb.org
E-devotion
Some two years ago now, at a meeting of webmasters from various parts of the Salesian world, a lay person, a female wbemaster who is not Catholic but very much part of the Salesian enterprise and quite epxlicitly engrossed with and engaged in Don Bosco's charism, made this simple point: "My job requires that I often visit Salesian sites in a range of languages around the world [she speaks English, Spanish and Italian in addition to her own language, German]. I have noted that they have wonderful amounts of information but in almost no instance do they offer what I, as a Christian and a person deeply involved in Salesian matters, might really be looking for - I am looking for help with my spirituality, and I want it to be a Salesian spirituality as well".
That comment struck home, but the real wuaesiton was how to respond to it. It has taken two years, but e-devotion is, for now, the response.
E-devotion is in five languages for now; it could be in others, but it would need the people who are willing to translate and also find material in that language, no easy task. It is not so muhc invitation about prayer as an invitation to prayer. Just getting to this point has been almost a 24/7 job for a month, which explains a vertain hiatus in other activities, but at least we can say it is up and running.
Now, it is not perfect, and you can of course (and are invited to) offer constructive criticism, but what we really want is to ask your solid help by way of practical (and practicable) idea and materials. Our Region is not short of people who have already taken a leap into all kinds of "e" approaches, from blogs, to lectio divina to - you name it. But a handful (it boils down to two) people here simply cannot do all the work of hunting up material in 5 languages, then coding it and so forth. We are happy to code it - but we need the material in the first place.
So - an open invitation - at least for English. If you are also a native speaker of Spanish or Italian, French or Portuguese, feel free to offer material for those languages too. Do you have something that could be suitable? Send it or a link to it, please. Have you put helpful videos or audio material online? Could we have/use it (better to have it than to link to it )?
Why not take your own tour through the material and try to see what is there, what is lacking and what you could suggest.
Click here to comment on this item, or here to assist with Glossary. You will need to enter 20eao02 when asked for a password.
_________________
AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com . RSS feeds - just go to Bosconet, click on austraLasia 2011 in the sidebar. You will see the RSS orange icon in your browser address bar - add it from there. Or be interactive with the EAO blog Cetera Tolle. Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at http://sdl.sdb.org
