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EAO Good Night Talk (19)                                                                  

October 1, 2015

 

‘Look at Don Bosco!’ – Mons. Cimatti continues to inspire (1965-2015)

 

Dear friends and confreres!

 

    Some countries and provinces in our EAO Region are happy and fortunate to get ‘their Don Bosco’ (= Don Bosco of China, of Vietnam, of the Philippines, of Fiji, of PNG…) and some are still looking for their local incarnation of Don Bosco. It does mean that amongst the first missionaries were strong Salesian personalities who made visible Don Bosco in that specific culture and situation. Thanks for those great Salesians! Fr. Chávez used to say: “The best pages of Salesian history were written by our missionaries!”

 

  On 6th October we remember with the Salesian family of Japan the 50th anniversary of the departure of Venerable Mons. Vincenzo Cimatti (1965-2015). He spent 40 years in Japan as the leader of the first missionary group. In Tokyo – Chofu there is in every 6th of the month a special Eucharist and encounter near his tomb and museum. I wish that many of EAO confreres would visit one day the ‘Cimatti Museum’ that documents well missionary zeal and strategies of the early EAO missionaries who shared the Charism 100 years ago.

 

When Vincenzo was three years old he was told by his mother in the Church during Don Boscos preaching: ‘Look at Don Bosco!’ After following the Salesian vocation and after many years as excellent formator of future Salesians in Turin he was sent finally at the age of 46 to become the leader of the first missionary group to Japan.  When you walk around the ‘Cimatti Museum’ in Chofu it’s easy to understand why he was called ‘Don Bosco of Japan’. Large variety of first evangelization activities, education and social work, collection of music and fossils, social communication and formation of first local vocations well documents his missionary zeal.

 

   Last September 27, the 146th missionary expedition with 25 new missionaries was sent from Valdocco like Fr. Cimatti in 1925. We welcome two incoming missionaries to our Region (Michael and Joshua for Cambodia) as we pray as well for nine new missionaries who were sent from three EAO provinces (Korea-2, Philippines North-2 and Vietnam-5).

 

Today we are starting October, the month of Mary and of the Missions. “Lord, send me!” – Salesian Missions Day 2015 is an invitation for listening to the missionary life witness. Let’s allow them to communicate their motivations, missionary life joys and difficulties. By listening to their stories, looking at Don Bosco missionaries many young people might follow the Salesian call like Mons. Cimatti!  

 

In Jesus Christ – Missionary of the Father

 

Fr. Václav Klement, SDB

Regional Councilor EAO 2014-2020 

Cimatti works with youngsters.JPG



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    vaclav 2015.09.30 23:20
    Dear Fr Klement,
    Thank you so much for sharing. I also share with other VDB's in our Region your Good night talk. This are good sources of formation materials and for our auto formation. Warm regards!
    In spirit of Don Bosco & Blessed P. RINALDI,
    Gloria Inocencio
    VDB FILA
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    vaclav 2015.10.01 09:07
    Thanks for the good nights, they are helpful
    Shane
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    vaclav 2015.10.01 09:11
    Dear Fr klement,
    Thanks for the inspiring story about Mon. Cimatti. Now I understand why there's a classroom named chofu in the school of Caritas Sisters in Santa Rosa in the Philippines. John - postnovice
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    vaclav 2015.10.01 09:17
    Dear Fr. Klement,
    Thank you for the news. It's wonderful to read once more the missionary zeal of Fr. Cimatti and our earlier missionaries.
    I was trying to look for the celebration where the missionaries receive the cross at the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians this year but nothing was reported.
    Best wishes to you dear Fr. Klement.
    Sr. Anne Tran, FMA
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    vaclav 2015.10.02 22:30
    hi father. thanks fort the inspirations through this good night. now i
    am posted at the novitiate as a assistance. i am happy with that. i
    wish you all the best. i gave to the novices ,last time, the EAO
    prayer intentions card we link ourselves in line with the EAO
    intentions. bye bye and be blessed.!!!!! MYM - Anisakan
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    vaclav 2015.10.07 15:02
    6/10/2015 - RMG - Fiftieth anniversary of death of Venerable Bishop Vincent Cimatti
    Photo for the article -RMG – FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH OF VENERABLE BISHOP VINCENT CIMATTI
    Photograph available in Image Bank Related documents
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    PHOTOS
    (ANS - Rome) – Today 6 October 2015 is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the Venerable Bishop Vincent Cimatti, great missionary and founder of the Salesian presence in Japan.

    From Faenza in Emilia-Romagna, he comes from a family of saints: of the three surviving children, he is venerable; his sister, Sister Maria Raffaella of the Congregation of the Hospital Sisters of Mercy, was beatified on 12 May 1996; and his brother Louis, a Salesian Brother missionary in Latin America, died in the odour of sanctity. When he was only three, Vincent lost his father. A few days later he was carried by his mother to the parish church where Don Bosco was preaching. "Look, Vincent, look at Don Bosco!" she said, holding him up over the heads of the people around. He became a Salesian at the age of seventeen and a priest at twenty-four. Vincent acquired several qualifications: a diploma in composition at the Conservatory of Parma, a degree in agriculture, philosophy and pedagogy in Turin. For twenty years he was a teacher and brilliant composer in the college in Valsalice.

    At Christmas 1925 the Rector Major Don Rinaldi sent him as a leader to found the mission and the Salesian work in Japan. He was to work there for forty years. He won the hearts of the Japanese with his polite charm and his artistic talent and especially with his goodness. He conducted concerts with great success. He reached out to the poor, the young, the old, the sick. He opened orphanages, oratories, professional schools and set up a publishing house in Tokyo.

    In 1935 the mission in Miyazaki-Oita was raised to a Prefecture Apostolic and Fr Cimatti become the first superior with the title of Monsignor. "Why do you want to poison my blood?” he wrote immediately to Turin. “Let me work in peace without any frills. Can you imagine Don Bosco with tassels and red edging?" When his friends in Italy posted him a Monsignor’s outfit, he sent it back. "Sell these and send me the money for the poor." Then he became Provincial. After the terrible ordeal of the war, he rebuilt the mission with renewed courage. Later he resigned to make way for younger people. He died aged eighty-six on 6 October 1965. He said: "I want to die here to be buried in Japanese soil". He was declared venerable on 21 December 1991.

    To mark the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary coming after the bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco, Fr Gaetano Compri, guardian and apostle of the memory of Bishop Cimatti, has edited a new publication: "Don Cimatti, teacher of life. As he lived, so he wrote ". The title draws attention to the holiness of life which distinguished this great son of Don Bosco. He was able to embody the Salesian charism in Japan and earned the name "The Don Bosco of Japan". This book is not a biography, but a collection of his teaching and his spirituality, based on the most significant parts of his letters. There are 338 entries, placed in chronological order, with a few words giving the context. It is a document of faith and spiritual direction on various topics of life, following the spirituality of St Francis de Sales and Don Bosco.

    Published 6/10/2015
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    vaclav 2015.10.11 11:37
    Dear Fr.Klement

    Hello.
    How are you?
    Thank you very much for your good night talk.
    I remembered Don.Cimatti.
    Before I entered FMA ,I read a book of Don Cimatti .
    I was impressed by his way of life.

    Please take care of yourself.

    Thank you very much.

    FMA(Australia)
    Sr.Maria Naoko Miyazawa(Japanese)

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