General Canonical Visitation Viet Nam

   

From 28 May to 26 June, Brother PascalAhodegnon, General Councillor, conducted the General Canonical Visitation tothe Province of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Holy Spirit (Viet Nam) and heldpersonal and group meetings with the all the communities, formation centres,guests and the teams working in the Centres, and with other friends andsupporters of the Order.

 

The closure of the Visitation was celebratedat the Provincial Curia headquarters (Bien Hoa) under the presidency of BrotherJesús Etayo Arrondo, the Superior General, on 20-26 June, attended by a largegroup of Brothers, climaxing on Thursday 22nd.

 

Some 700 Pastoral care of the sick workersand/or sick visitors from 5 dioceses who had been animated in given formationby the Brothers, were invited to attend on 23 June,. At the Mass, a largenumber of them were given accreditation as members of the pastoral care teamsand thereby became Members of the Saint John of God Hospitaller Family.

 

The Superior General and the Brothersaccompanying him were given the opportunity to visit the formation centres anda number of communities near Tan Bien: Than Son, and Ho Chi Ming City, as well as theSisters Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at Vung Tau. He also went togreet the Management Team of the public hospital adjacent to the Centre whichhad previously had been the property of the Hospitaller order, and with whichthe Order still has cordial relations.

 

On Saturday 24th there was avery special event, for this was day on which the foundation stone was laid forHospitality House, a project which this Province had been eagerly advocatingfor so long, and for which the preparations had begun thanks to the supportgiven as a result of the 2008 General Curia Campaign, but had been waitingsince then in order to complete all the formalities.

 

This new facility will be HospitalityHouse (with 150 beds and refectory for 200 people) to accommodate poor patientsand their carers, coming from afar and needing physical rehabilitationtreatment during comparatively long periods of time. This will also make itpossible to set up a number of new consulting rooms to support the work of theCentre which stands on this land around the tomb of the Venerable WilliamGagnon  (+ 16 May 1972) who pioneered theestablishment of the Brothers in Viet Nam and who is lovingly remembered by thelocal Vietnamese Church and people. 



 

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