austraLasia

?

Shortcut

PrevPrev Article

NextNext Article

Larger Font Smaller Font Up Down Go comment Print Attachment
Views 1482 Comment 0

20180302_CIN.jpg


By Fr. Carlos Cheung, SDB


Hong Kong, 22 February 2018 -- To celebrate the Lunar New Year in the Year of the Dog, Salesians in the China Province came together at Aberdeen Technical School (ATS) in Hong Kong for the wonderful annual gathering of the Salesian Provincial Day.


The beginning of this festive occasion was marked by a basketball championship among the young confreres. Afterwards guided tours were arranged for the confreres to visit the newly renovated STREAM Room, which is specially designed to deliver quality interdisciplinary education integrating Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics as 'STREAM'. The teaching staff at ATS as our Lay Mission Partners conducted the practical demonstrations of how the state-of-the-art equipment can be used to facilitate the teaching of STREAM to students. Through such live demonstrations, our confreres experienced the power of advanced technologies in equipping our students for the creative industries in the global trend of technological adcancement in contemporary society.


Besides the demonstrations at STREAM Room, the confreres were led to visit the boarding section at ATS, which provides accommodation to 120 students with different educational needs. The confreres were introduced to the various schemes aiming to enhance the personal, intellectual and spiritual development of boarders.


After these engaging campus visits, the new life-size statue of Mary Help of Christians in polished white jade put up at the school main entrance was blessed by the Provincial, Fr. Lanfranco, who pray with all the attending confreres to our Blessed Mother to ask for Her intercession to protect ATS and all its members. Then the Solemn Vespers commemorating the feast of the chair of St. Peter was celebrated in the school chapel. In the following good night talk, Fr. Lanfranco shared that all Salesians are really impressed by the restoration of the boarding section at ATS with dedicated Lay Mission Partners accompanying the young people in need through tailor-made learning programmes. He firmly believes that the work at ATS is truly manifesting the Salesian charism. In fact, ATS is the very first school set up by the first batch of Salesian missionaries to Hong Kong. Before arrival, the missionaries had envisioned opening a technical school in Hong Kong. Therefore, they gladly took over St. Louis School from the then Bishop of Hong Kong, Bp. Raymondi, and Aberdeen Technical School became the second Salesian presence in Hong Kong. Moreover, Fr. Lanfranco highlighted that on the Provincial Day this year we also celebrated that precisely 100 years ago the Salesians began their educative-pastoral work in Shiuchow. In God’s mysterious designs, the Shiuchow missionary field was watered by the blood of the Salesian Protomartyrs, St. Luigi Versiglia and St. Callisto Caravario, the blood of three missionaries, Fr. Vincenzo Munda, Fr. Bassano Lareno-Faccini and Fr. John Matkovics, and the blood of our Chinese confrere, Fr. Simone Leong Shu Tchi. They all died for their fidelity to their vocation and mission. Fr. Lanfranco asks every one of us to keep the Shiuchow mission in our prayer, where the blood of martyrs will certainly be the seed of many, many new Christians.


After the Solemn Vespers and the good night talk, we had a good dinner in the school hall. The boarders, aspirant and confreres gave wonderful music and Chinese yoyo performance during the dinner. The Chinese New Year provincial celebration ended with the distribution of red packets by Fr. Lanfranco and the confreres enjoyed this joyful annual gathering while fostering fraternity in the family of the China Province.




20180302_CIN1.jpg


20180302_CIN2.jpg


20180302_CIN3.jpg


20180302_CIN4.jpg


20180302_CIN5.jpg


20180302_CIN6.jpg


20180302_CIN7.jpg


20180302_CIN8.jpg


20180302_CIN9.jpg


20180302_CIN10.jpg


20180302_CIN11.jpg


20180302_CIN12.jpg


20180302_CIN13.jpg


20180302_CIN14.jpg


20180302_CIN15.jpg


Attach

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

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

0 file(s) attached ( / )

  1. 4659(III)_The land of St. Callistus Caravario welcomes the EAO provincial meeting 2018

    For the first time in history the EAO provincials come together in Timor Leste By Our Own Correspondent Dili, Timor Leste, 4 March 2018 -- One month after the departure of the Rector Major from Dili all provincials and delegation superiors ...
    Date2018.03.05 CategoryEAO Reply0 Views1041 file
    Read More
  2. 4659(II)_Attracted by the Salesian family spirit

    A Vocation Story of Wilfridus Pita Raja, Prenovice in Sumba By Br. Ephrem Santos, SDB Sumba, Indonesia, 4 March 2018 -- Primus is his nickname, but he admits that he really does not know how he got that nickname, because his real name is Wi...
    Date2018.03.05 CategoryINA Reply0 Views982 file
    Read More
  3. 4659(I)_One novice in the Pacific - Suva, Fiji Islands

    Sharing of our only Pacific Novice Afia's Enosa By Nov. Afi’a Enosa, SDB Suva, Fiji, 4 March 2018 -- Talofa Lava! Greetings from Samoan! My name is Afi’a Enosa from the village of Saleimoa. I came to know about the Salesians when I was work...
    Date2018.03.05 CategoryPac. Reply0 Views892 file
    Read More
  4. 4658_“Towards Promoting the Common Good, Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World”

    EAO Provincial Economers Meeting 2018 in Seoul By Mr. Leah Samson Seoul, Korea, 4 March 2018 -- The Annual EAO Provincial Economers Meeting has just been concluded in Seoul, Korea. It was headed by the Economer General, Br. Jean Paul Muller...
    Date2018.03.04 CategoryEAO Reply0 Views1012 file
    Read More
  5. 4657(II)_Project of the Year: Salesian Mission Day 2018

    Myitkyina Vocation Training Center (MYM) as Project SMD 2018 By Fr. Victor Nawki, SDB Myitkyina, Myanmar, 4 March 2018 -- Don Bosco Vocation Training Center in Myitkyina celebrated last week another graduation of our Don Bosco VTC, when 25 ...
    Date2018.03.04 CategoryMYM Reply0 Views1135 file
    Read More
  6. 4657(I)_Simplicity and fidelity to the education duties

    Interview with Br. Ignatius Satya Paramitha, SDB By Our Own Correspondent Sumba, Indonesia, 3 March 2018 -- Br. Ignatius is one of the 10 Salesian Brothers of Indonesia Delegation, with a Teaching Degree from Institute Technology of Indones...
    Date2018.03.04 CategoryINA Reply0 Views898 file
    Read More
  7. 4656(II)_Lent Retreat of Korea Salesian Cooperators in Seoul

    By SC KOR Seoul, Korea, 25 February 2018 -- Korea Salesian Cooperators had their Lent Retreat in Seoul. All about 170 members of 16 Local Centers including SalesiTh(Youth Salesian Cooperators) had their time to reflection on themselves and ...
    Date2018.03.02 CategoryASC Reply0 Views727 file
    Read More
  8. 4656(I)_Salesian Provincial Day CIN

    By Fr. Carlos Cheung, SDB Hong Kong, 22 February 2018 -- To celebrate the Lunar New Year in the Year of the Dog, Salesians in the China Province came together at Aberdeen Technical School (ATS) in Hong Kong for the wonderful annual gatherin...
    Date2018.03.02 CategoryCIN Reply0 Views1482 file
    Read More
  9. 4655(II)_Salesian World Map updated for 2018

    Strengthening the sense of belonging to the world community By Fr. Filiberto Gonzalez, SDB General Councilor for the Social Communication RMG, 1 March 2018 -- Do you have in your Salesian school, your SDB community room or refectory or in t...
    Date2018.03.01 CategoryRMG Reply0 Views1923 file
    Read More
  10. 4655(I)_PDO at the service of the Salesian Mission

    Planning and Development Office (PDO) World meeting 2018 in Nairobi By Br. Jean Paul Muller RMG, 1 March 2018 -- Seven years after the 2011 Hyderabad Global Salesian seminar on the PDO (Planning and Development Office) many PDO Directors an...
    Date2018.03.01 CategoryRMG Reply0 Views979 file
    Read More
List
Board Pagination Prev 1 ... 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 ... 533 Next
/ 533