ORDINATION. (Korea)
On January 15, 2008 our Korean brother Munsu Gabriel Lee re-ceived the ordina-tion to the priest-hood in Myoung Dong Cathedral of Seoul Archdio-cese through the hands of Bishop Luca Kim. Born in Seoul in he first professed in the congregation in 00 and per-petually in 00.
FRANCISCO CARIN TEACHING IN ICLA. (Beijing-Philippines)
Francisco Carin, currently assigned in Beijing, taught a course on Eco-Theology at the Institute of Consecrated Life in Asia (ICLA) from November to December 2007. This is the second time he teaches there. This is a great opportunity to get in touch with stu-dents of many nationalities who study there; specially interesting is the contact with the many Chi-nese priests and sisters from all over China who converge in ICLA for spe-cialized stud-ies.
NOT COLD IF THE HEART IS WARM ENOUGH. (Beijing)
During the month of November Mr. Ian Da-cayanan who works at Claretian Publications, Macao, fulfilled the invi-tation long ago offered by the Beijing commu-nity to visit them. Even though it was quite cold for a Pinoy, Ian managed quite well the below zero average December tem-peratures in Beijing. During his stay at the National Semi-nary he helped the seminarians to develop a website for the National Seminary and taughtweb deign.
VISITS. (Beijing)
Frs. John and Johannes Chen, respectively the Rector and the Dean of the Chinese National Seminary (where Sid and Francisco are working), received an invitation from Alberto Rossa to visit the Philippines in February dur-ing the winter vacation. Let’s hope they enjoy the warmer weather and beautiful people down south and get a closer knowledge of our congregation’s work and charism.
KEIKO GAKUEN. (Japan)
In October 00 after celebrating the 0th anniversary of the school, the Claretian Keiko Gakuen merged with a local university. The school changed its name to Josho Keiko, keeping the original name it had (“Keiko” Light of Knowl-edge) while under Claretian management. After so many years, it has been a heartbreaking separation, neverthe-less, it had become very difficult for the East Asia Delega-tion to provide Claretian personnel to manage the school. We wish the best to our former school in this new phase.
