There are two Salesian presences in Pakistan - in Quetta and Lahore. Last December I had the good fortune, on my way home from a conference in Rome, to visit the Don Bosco Technical Centre Lahore, which was built and opened by Australian Salesian Fr Hans Dopheide just ten years ago. A plaque at the front entrance is dedicated to Fr Hans, acknowledging that he established the school and directed it for three years before his health gave way and he returned to Australia.
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An Award Well Deserved
Ms Romina Martiniello, a student of Salesian College Sunbury, at a ceremony on Australia Day was jointly awarded The Hume City Council “Youth of the Year” Award.
In presenting Romina to the College Assembly, Mr Stephen Connelly spoke not only of the significance and importance of Australia Day but also of Romina’s remarkable achievements in volunteering.
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On January 30th, being the eve of St John Bosco’s Feast, Rev Monthon Rojjanasutadkul SDB was ordained a priest in St Joseph’s Church in the Salesian parish of Ban Pong in Thailand. For the occasion three bishops and many Salesian, diocesan and religious clergy concelebrated, about 70 priests in total. The principal ordaining prelate was the Salesian Bishop Joseph Prathan Srdarunsil SDB of Surat Thani Diocese. He was also Monthon’s former provincial and rector. In attendance was also the bishop of the Ratchburi diocese, Bishop John Bosco Panya Kitchareon, and Bishop Tim Costelloe SDB Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, who was Monthon’s Rector when he came to the Salesian Formation House in Clifton Hill, Melbourne, to complete his theological studies in Australia. Bishop Costelloe was joined by his recent Rector, Fr Peter Rankin, and good friend Fr Frank Freeman as well as some of Monthon’s friends and fellow students from Catholic Theological College in Melbourne.
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On Saturday December 12 St Michael’s Parish Church at Leauva’a, Samoa was alive with activity and preparation as hundreds from the village gathered to witness the Final Public Profession of one of their own as a Salesian Sister. Sr Paula Vitale was born and raised in Leauva’a. She attended St Joseph’s Primary School in the Village and there had daily contact with the Salesian Sisters. When she finished her secondary education she returned to Leauva’a to help teach in the Kindergarten there. At the end of the year after the children’s graduation, it was announced, much to the surprise of her parents, that Miss Paula would not return the following year because she was going to join the Salesian Sisters. With the support of her surprised parents Paula joined the pre-Novitiate community at Moamoa and then Engadine, Sydney, before beginning her Novitiate in Broadmeadows, Melbourne, in 2003.
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First profession of Sr Ivona Aleki Taimalie
Ivona Aleki Taimalie made her first profession as a Salesian Sister during a Eucharistic celebration at St Jude’s parish church, Scoresby, on Saturday 5 December 2009. Ivona had met the Sisters in her home country of Samoa and after taking part in the “Come and See” vocations programme, she entered as a candidate in Moamoa, Samoa. She then came to Australia and did her postulancy year in the Scoresby community and two years of novitiate at Broadmeadows.
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010 07:22 | 
Written by Br. Michael Lynch SDB | 
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