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The participants of the SPCSA Networks planning meeting

Don Bosco National Networks plan for 2020

. NEW DELHI: Salesian Provincial Conference South Asia (SPCSA) Commission Heads and leaders of other national associations met on 10th and 11th May 2014 in New Delhi to chalk out ways of networking among themselves and to plan for the coming six years. The meeting was presided over by Fr. Maria Arokiam Kanaga, the Regional Councillor for South Asia, at which 14 Salesians who are either Delegates of various regional commissions or Leaders of national networking bodies, took part.
In his inaugural talk Fr Maria Arokiam invited the participants to look towards 2020 and contribute to the six year plan of the Rector Major. He asked them also to look into themselves from the point of view of effectiveness and networking. Incidentlly the meeting took place as a followup of the recently concluded 27th General Chapter and in preparation for the forthcoming SPCSA general assembly which will take place at Yercaud from 27 to 29 May. The Regional Councillor presented also an evaluation of the Region in the past six years. He said that the general picture of the Region was very positive. He highlighted many of the meaningful goals and plans the Region had set before itself in its GC 26 evaluation and in the Youth Ministry Roadmap drawn up in 2013. Some of the major problems to be overcome, according to him are: individualism, going by worldly success indicators, inability to subject institutions to causes, ``spiritual worldliness``, lack of understanding of life as vocation, and internal divisions. Echoing the 27th General Chapter he said that ``Our real mission is being Mystics, Prophets and Servants. Devoid of mysticism, prophecy and servanthood, our works take on simply a secular nature; they do not become Kingdom building, does not ead us to holiness, both ours and of the young.`` The participants presented reports of their commissions/networks regarding the animation programmes conducted in the past six years, and reflected on how their activities can be evaluated in the light of the call to be mystics, prophets and servants, and the challenge to embrace ``Gospel Radicality``. They shared also their expectations from other commissions in terms of networking together. The Regional Councillor took the opportunity to consult the participants about concrete ways of implementing the GC27 directives, and how the Commissions and Networking Bodies could contribute to the animation of the Extraordinary Visitations of the provinces of the Region in the next six years. The meeting was also an occasion to bid farewell and thank Fr. Mathew Thomas Panamkattu who was the Regional Secretary of the Forum for Young at Risk (YaR) for the past six years, and to welcome the new regional secretary of YaR, Fr. Thomas Koshy SDB from Hyderabad Province. At the conclusion of the Meeting Fr. Maria Arokiam blessed the newly erected Office of ``Don Bosco Action India`` in the basement of the SPCI House, in the presence of its Director Fr. Vincent Thamburaj and the rest of the participants. Fr. Noel Maddhichetty, the SPCSA Secretary and Regional Delegate for the Salesian Family convened and coordinated the two day meeting. Mr. Lourdes Baptista, a development strategist, was also present as expert resource person to guide some of the discussions on the two days.
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