austraLasia #3416
7 new priests - and an apology-cum-explanation
23 April 2014 -- When GC27 concluded and 200 plus Salesians moved out of the Pisana, it meant some reorganisation of technical aspects. One of these was the reinstallation of a firewall. That just happened to block access to one regular user of the Pisana server who lives at the other end of the planet! Since sdb.org, SDL and other technical procedures of an international Congregation need good protection at the best of times, the reinstallation was doing its best to prevent a 'Snowden' moment! It succeeded. But the better story is yet to come, I think. Distance is no longer a barrier to working together, so by linking computers and working together between Rome and the 'penguins' (almost literally), though it did take some days, we have solved the provlem. Alleluia!
But the more important story is what is happening in our region post-Chapter. here is one of these items.
FIN—The Salesian congregation received a beautiful Easter gift thru the ordination of seven young men to the order of priesthood--21 April, first day of Easter Octave--in a jampacked National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in Paranaque City, the Philippines.
Fr. Erasto Dizon, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Joji Inocentes, III, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Jake Lopez, SDB (FIN)
Fr. JM Mangubat, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Nelson Munar, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Arnold Pattyona, SDB (VIE-MNG)
Fr. Paul Michael Suarez, SDB (FIN)
Attended by more than 1,000 individuals composed largely of the members of the Salesian family, young people from various Don Bosco settings in the FIN, and regular parishioners, our seven newly ordained priests prove once more how God shows His magnanimous love for the work of our confreres in the Philippine North Province and Mongolia by hailing ministers to take care of His young people.
Among the newly ordained, Fr. Arnold Pattyona, born in Indonesia, is set to fly to Mongolia to begin his missionary work there.
His Eminence Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Manila was their ordaining prelate. In his beautiful homily, Cardinal Rosales reminded the new priests—and even each one present in the Mass—to go back to our own Galilee that we may meet the Risen Lord!
Some 86 priests came to concelebrate and greet the newly ordained to the ministry of priesthood.
7 new priests - and an apology-cum-explanation
23 April 2014 -- When GC27 concluded and 200 plus Salesians moved out of the Pisana, it meant some reorganisation of technical aspects. One of these was the reinstallation of a firewall. That just happened to block access to one regular user of the Pisana server who lives at the other end of the planet! Since sdb.org, SDL and other technical procedures of an international Congregation need good protection at the best of times, the reinstallation was doing its best to prevent a 'Snowden' moment! It succeeded. But the better story is yet to come, I think. Distance is no longer a barrier to working together, so by linking computers and working together between Rome and the 'penguins' (almost literally), though it did take some days, we have solved the provlem. Alleluia!
But the more important story is what is happening in our region post-Chapter. here is one of these items.
FIN—The Salesian congregation received a beautiful Easter gift thru the ordination of seven young men to the order of priesthood--21 April, first day of Easter Octave--in a jampacked National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in Paranaque City, the Philippines.
Fr. Erasto Dizon, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Joji Inocentes, III, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Jake Lopez, SDB (FIN)
Fr. JM Mangubat, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Nelson Munar, SDB (FIN)
Fr. Arnold Pattyona, SDB (VIE-MNG)
Fr. Paul Michael Suarez, SDB (FIN)
Attended by more than 1,000 individuals composed largely of the members of the Salesian family, young people from various Don Bosco settings in the FIN, and regular parishioners, our seven newly ordained priests prove once more how God shows His magnanimous love for the work of our confreres in the Philippine North Province and Mongolia by hailing ministers to take care of His young people.
Among the newly ordained, Fr. Arnold Pattyona, born in Indonesia, is set to fly to Mongolia to begin his missionary work there.
His Eminence Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Manila was their ordaining prelate. In his beautiful homily, Cardinal Rosales reminded the new priests—and even each one present in the Mass—to go back to our own Galilee that we may meet the Risen Lord!
Some 86 priests came to concelebrate and greet the newly ordained to the ministry of priesthood.
