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  Trang chính Hop BPV 2006
 

 

 

Report For Dong-Hanh Region
NCC Meeting July 2006


 

 
 


1.  Formation Efforts:
Dong-Hanh had Exco meeting July 1-July 4, 2006 to discern direction for the next few years. It seems we agreed on focusing our energy toward formation to support existing communities, as well as to form new communities. We have different groups that have different needs: youth/young adult groups, groups with mixed ages, family groups. We need to have common directives for formation, at the same time meeting each group’s particular needs. We would like to continue forming guides for communities, spiritual directors for the Spiritual Exercises. On another aspect, we would also like to help communities make transition into apostolic communities. At the meeting, a formation team was formed, which includes lay and religious members. Fr. Tri Dinh, SJ, and Hao Truong will be the coordinators for this team.

2.  How Dong-Hanh understands CLC as World Community:
Dong-Hanh as an entity has just been incorporated into CLC since July 2004 in Miami. Our individual members of the larger world community and are ready to support its goals, ideals and way of life. More efforts need to be made to make people aware of the larger World CLC Community.

3.  We are consisted of youths, young adults, professionals, families with children, and older, retired members. Our children are considered members and these are being formed into CLC way of life and meetings are being planned with their needs in mind. Youth groups are in great need of leaders. We need to form leaders to guide them. An emphasis will be placed in our formation for youth and young adults members.

4.  Most youth/young adult communities have good relationships with the adult
communities. They support each other’s apostolic efforts. The adult communities try to support the youth/young adults ones in finances, leadership training and providing retreat opportunities.

5.  Dong-Hanh is in close relationship with the Jesuits everywhere. Great
collaborative efforts are made in retreats and group formation. In most retreats, the retreat team is consisted of lay and Jesuit members. As for relationship with local church, it is different everywhere but most parishes have favorable relationship with Dong-Hanh communities. DH members are key people for different parish ministries, such as catechism, choir, organizing retreats, youth ministry, etc...In areas where there is not close relationship with local parishes, DH communities try to do more PR work, pay attention to the needs of the people and try to respond to them appropriately.

6.  The initiatives that have been most exciting this year :
    a.  The appointment of our new EA, Fr. Tri Dinh, SJ in July 2006
    b.  Formation Team re-established under coordinatorship of Fr. Tri Dinh, SJ and Hao Truong.
    c.  Our first Marriage Renewal Workshop for a Vietnamese parish in New Jersey, Aug 12-13, 2006. This is a roll-out from St. Madeleine-Sophie parish in Seattle , Washington. We sent 10 couples and two priests there to attend the workshop, then worked together with the Seattle team to adapt the program to Vietnamese culture. This is a collaboration of lay and religious persons, across cultures, and parishes. We will evaluate the outcome of the first one to prepare for the second one.

7.  Most important focus of Dong-Hanh will be on formation. Our leadership
conference in July hopefully will help set the tone and focus for formation programs. This formation hopes to:
  - help each member discover his/her own personal vocation
  - transition and move members into temporary or permanent commitment
  - move pre-communities into discerning apostolic communities.
  - outreach to the people of Vietnam where CLC is still underground and is in need of support in all aspects of life.


Report written by Kim-Anh Vu
Vice-President of Dong-Hanh CLC
July 10, 2006

 


 

 
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