11 June 2012

Welcome Brother Superior: Bro Alvaro, Superior General, arrives in Manila Wednesday to attend the closing centennial ceremonies of the Philippines Sector of LEAD. The ceremonies over three days include also honouring Brothers who have served in the country and perpetual and first profession ceremonies. He will also visit Bacolod and Sendai in Japan. Sendai was on the schedule for his 2010 Pastoral Visit to PARC but had to be omitted due to a prolonged aircraft delay.

Welcome Brother Robert Schieler: Bro Robert Schieler, General Council for RELAN is attending the centennial closing ceremonies in Manila and also visiting Iligan where he served in the Philippines a number of years ago. A number of Brothers from the United States of America are returning to the Philippines for the occasion.

Welcome to PARC: Bro George Van Grieken (San Francisco); President SJI International, Singapore; Bro Stephen Caplice (DENA), Cambodia for the summer, teaching English; Bro Joseph Dougherty (DENA), Professor in the Religion Department at La Salle University Philadelphia is in Ozamiz (Philippines) for one year.

IALU Formation Programme Rome: Sixty participants from Lasallian Universities and other institutions of tertiary education are attending the annual Leadership Formation Programme here in the Casa Generalizia. There are six participants from the Philippines and two from Manado in Indonesia. Bro Gerard Rummery of Australia is one of the presenters.

Lasallian Foundation Grants: The Lasallian Foundation has notified Visitors/President of funding approved for various projects in the Region. “One of the little known achievements of the Lasallian Foundation has been its success in attracting funding by making submissions especially for very significant sums to other Funding Agencies.The most recent example has been the result of the May meeting of the Foundation in which it received reports of grants made in excess of $AUD 1.307,000.In this sum are included $515,000 (mostly for Sri Lanka) from Misean Cara, an Irish funding body, $AUD 23,129 (also for Sri Lanka) from Porticus a Hong Kong based Family trust, $AUD127,000 for projects at Kondiu, P.N.G., almost $AUD,7000 from Persephone, a private benefactor.Sri Lanka benefited overall from $AUD 652, 516 from the Foundation, Pakistan by $AUD162,000, P.N.G. $AUD 425,000 (the bulk to Kondiu) and India by $AUD 42,000.None of this would have been possible without the Foundation forming strategic links with the Institute ONLUS.It’s all a great achievement. “(Courtesy of “In the Loop”; ANZPPNG). PARC appreciates the work of the Lasallian Foundation and thanks Bro Paul Smith, Miranda Chow, staff and the Board.

Bro Stephen Tuohy SECOLI: Bro Stephen Tuohy is completing his appointment as Director of SECOLI and returning to his home District of DENA. He has worked tirelessly for PARC through his onsite visits, seeking of donor funds for projects, administration of the Sharing Fund and following up donations with Visitors/Presidents. His presence at the Annual PARC meetings served to keep all fully informed of the work of SECOLI. I am sure all thank Stephen for his contribution and wish him God’s blessings for the future. Bro Craig Franz is the new Director of SECOLI. He is known to some of you having visited some projects in PARC in recent years.

Bro John Pill Director of Lasallian Services: John is currently working on two major projects; a review of Lasallian works in the Delegation of India and a review of Lasallian. Family and Association in LEAD. Last week he was the presenter at the Singapore Sector retreat held at Bangna in Thailand. John is also working on the final details of the PARC Lasallian Leadership Programme. He has also finalized the PARC delegates to IA 2013 and allotted them to the thematic groups.

Postulancy India/Colombo: The District of Colombo and the Delegation of India will commence a combined Postulancy programme in Mutwal, Colombo in September with three postulants from each country. Bro Gerald (India) will be the Director with a staff member provided by the District of Colombo.

Schedules: Bro David Hawke: 14-16 June; Philippines Centennial Closing Ceremonies; 18-25 June; Pakistan Brothers’ Retreat. Bro John Pill; PARC Office

Best wishes and prayers

David Hawke FSC
General Councillor PARC