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Myanmar's steady
Salesian growth - and ordinations in EAO
YANGON:
2nd June 2006 -- With just 45 confreres, the relatively new Vice
Province of Myanmar was amongst the smallest of the Salesian Vice Provinces
around the world. The FMA Vice Province of Cambodia-Myanmar too, with just
25 Sisters. Now, with the first profession of 8 SDB novices and 4 FMA
novices, there has been a great leap forward for the Salesian Family in this
small but significant part of the world.
It goes further
than that. The places of the 8 first professed SDBs were taken by 9 new
novices and those of the 4 FMAs by 5 new ones. There are another 23
prenovices in the wings, and aspirantates behind that. There was also a
diaconate and a priestly ordination in May, the beginning of a new work in
Mandalay (DB YES, Don Bosco Educational Services) and the confirming of a 25
year presence in the Mission area of Wa. The Superior of the Vice
Province, Fr. Joachim Ye Maung has also announced the intentions of the Rector
Major to visit Myanmar in February 2007 for the Golden Jubilee of Nazareth
Seminary.
Myanmar officially belongs to the South Asia
Region, but it is precisely tucked in between South Asia and its Eastern
neighbours, with its long border with Thailand. Burmese Salesians are to
be found active in various parts of the EAO Region, and elsewhere too - Africa
for example.
Meanwhile, in the EAO Region, May, June and
July is 'ordination month' and we will be reporting on the various events as
they occur. At last count there were something like 21 ordinations of
diaconate and priesthood scheduled over these three months in various parts of
the world. Our Vietnamese confrere Barnaba Le an Phong was the first to be
ordained on 20th May - in Florence. The next will be Francis Tran Cong Phan,
missionary to PNG-SI, who has been completing his priestly studies at Ratisboone
in Jerusalem. Francis will be ordained priest in Jerusalem by the Patriarch
Michel Sabah on 8th June.
Later this month - 24th - there
should be three priestly ordinations in Hong Kong and two in
Seoul.
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