MISSIONARY ANIMATION AT SALESIAN COLLEGE SONADA

Missionary animation at Salesian College Sonada

• Posted on 09-May-2025
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Sonada, 9 May 2025 -  Fr. Roshan Kullu SDB, the Provincial Delegate for Mission Animation, led a very informative and interactive session on Salesian Missionary life at Salesian College Sonada on 9th May 2025.  The evening session was a response to the desire of the congregation to create missionary enthusiasm among those in post novitiate formation.   

 

The session began with the introductory words by Fr. Johny Nedungatt, the Rector and offering of khada to the resource person by Fr. Clement Lakra, the dean of studies. Thereafter, the resource person led the remainder of the session, presenting the mind of the congregation regarding Salesian Mission. He dealt with various aspects of the theme  emphasizing the  missionary vocation of a Salesian, Don Bosco’s missionary spirit, the profile of a Salesian missionary today, and the stages of the discernment of the Salesian missionary vocation.  He substantiated the above aspects of Missionary vocation with examples drawn from his personal experience.

 

The lively discussion that ensued focused on the glaring absence of the fruits such animation and missionary seminars bear in the province.  A question from the participants that made everyone pause and reflect was: how many missionary ad gentes have these animations and seminars brought forth in these past years? 

 

Another noteworthy intervention was the need to foster the missionary vocation that takes shape in the heart of a Salesian.  Every Salesian needs to fan into a flame that spark of the desire to be a missionary ad gentes which the Lord kindles in the heart of a Salesian. 

 

Some of the young Salesians present at the session spontaneously volunteered to be sent as missionaries ad gentes. Fr. Roshan  concluded the session and discussion with the words, “Make your life a mission and not an intermission.”

 

Cl. Clement Soren SDB