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Don Bosco CLAY,
Cebu - a vision for 2006
CEBU: 1st February
2006 -- As a follow up to #1334 (Nov 21st) which you can check in Bosconet
for background, especially for the fuller meaning of CLAY, a lay-run Salesianity
programme, comes the following interesting and potentially very useful
information for other provinces, should they wish to avail themselves of the
material being produced.
On the morning of the Feast of
Don Bosco, in the presence of the Provincial of the Southern Philippines
Province, Fr Julius Sanchez, the Vice Provincial Fr Ronel Vilbar, Mrs Lori who
manages DBCLAY, a member of the office staff and four other members of the core
group, all lay people (Cooperator, Past Pupil, Damas Salesianas, Mamma Margaret
Group), the DBCLAY 2005 evaluation and 2006 programme was given to Fr Klement,
Regional Councillor for EAO.
The 2005 'harvest' is
impressive: forming formators continues regularly, weekly in fact. SDB
novices have now been included in the Saturday sessions, to the mutual
enrichment of all. Ongoing formation is based mainly on the Memoirs of
the Oratory, chapter by chapter, through reports by novices and lay
participants. There have been eight youth encounter programmes, each
lasting for three days. As part of this there has been the formation of
youth group leaders for Salesian as well as non-Salesian schools and
parishes. Five retreats were offered to diocesan seminarians, parents from
Salesian schools or training centres. They also offered an Advent
programme. Five basic Salesianity programmes have been on offer - one day
programmes, level one and two, for DB school parents, DB parish staff, DBTI
teaching and auxiliary staff. An additional programme was a human
sexuality programme and a team building workshop.
In 2006,
the entire programme will move from its current location at Punta Princessa
(DBTC grounds) to Talisay City-Lawaan formation house, which involves
pre-novitiatie, novitiate, retreat house. A new third batch of 'form the
formators' will begin, and a Salesian Spirituality formation programme for
Talisay City, open to the twenty or so other religious communities based
there. Also planned is a programme for catechesis for Talisay youth via an
oratory-youth centre at Lawaan. The levels 3-10 modules for the
Salesianity programme will be developed this year, and the entire set then
presented to Rectors towards the end of 2006.
DBCLAY's
regular monthly visits to the Cebu Juvenile Prison enables formators to be in
touch with youth at risk. In a new direction altogether, the DBCLAY
programmes will also be offered to the coporate world - Salesian spirituality
for employee and staff human and team building. Should this venture
succeed, it will provide a source of income for a programme which up till now
has no income source of its own.
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