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Mamma Margaret in
Japanese edition for Don Bosco's Feast day, and also in
Vietnamese
TOKYO: 28th January 2006
-- Don Bosco Sha, the Salesian publishers in Tokyo, have published an
attractive edition of Fr Peter Lappin's Sunshine in the Shadows, a life
of Mamma Margaret. In Vietnam, they have taken the DVD film version of
Mamma Margaret produced by Elledici some years back and provided a voice-over in
Vietnamese. It is likely, too, that the more recent printed version of MM,
as well as being published in English shortly, will also find its way into
several of the Asian languages.
The idea for the Lappin
version in Japanese came from a group of Cooperators, who wanted to have
something they could read about Don Bosco's first Cooperator, his mother.
Fr Matsuo, the vice provincial, took on the task of translation, and the text
was first launched on the province website. Many viewers on the site
passed positive comments on it and requested that it find its way into a printed
version.
At that point the Association of Salesian
Schools, the province level animation group for Salesian schools, with heads of
Colleges and all Salesian schools right down to kindergarten level took up the
question of financing and distributing the printed publication. As a
result every family with a child in a Salesian school in Japan will receive a
free copy, if they haven't already received it. 'Free', but the schools
pay an amount per head to the Association of Salesian Schools for precisely this
kind of thing. It's a good idea. Mamma Margaret is number ten in a
series, now, meaning that every year a family receives a Salesian document of
one or another kind ot help them in their educational or spiritual tasks as
family.
The Vietnamese effort is similar, although it is
not something directed to schools, these being relatively few in number.
Instead, a copy of the DVD and a brochure to go with it has gone to all members
of the Salesian
Family.
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