{"id":4235,"date":"2017-09-28T14:56:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T06:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2017-09-28T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T06:56:32","slug":"eao-good-night-talk-43%ef%bc%9awhere-is-your-comfort-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdb.org.hk\/?p=4235","title":{"rendered":"EAO Good Night Talk (43)\uff1aWhere is your comfort zone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

EAO Good Night Talk (43)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Yakutsk \u2013 Russia (Siberia)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

October 1, 2017<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Where is your comfort zone?<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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Dear Friends and Salesian Family members!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0After six weeks of the Korea province extraordinary visitation I\u2019m sharing this Good Night Talk from my first visit to Yakutsk (Russia), one of the most forgotten Salesian missions around the world. I\u2019m happy to celebrate the East Asia \u2018Full Moon Autumn Festival\u2019 with five Slovakian SDB confreres in this remote place on the Earth. Already 25 years ago courageous Salesians of Slovakia reached this remote area of former Soviet Union and share with patience and courage the faith in Jesus Christ in not-so-easy place. Thanks to God from this year it becomes an international community!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some years ago when I asked late Jesuit Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi of Kaoshiung (1924-2012 about vocations in Taiwan, his tricky answer revealed a deeper truth about our response to God\u2019s call:\u00a0\u2018If you want vocations, you need persecution!\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Today we humbly acknowledge with Pope Francis that as faithful followers of Jesus we need to reach out of our comfort zone. And this missionary \u2018out-reach\u2019 does cost us always some pain or little sacrifice. But there is no other way to the Joy of the Gospel!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Just yesterday in Bratislava, Slovakia in the presence of thousands of Salesian Family members, Cardinal Angelo Amato, SDB presided the Beatification of\u00a0one \u2018Martyr for Vocation\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0Fr. Titus Zeman, SDB (1915-1969). Although he could continue his Salesian life within the not-so-easy communist regime situation, he dared to sneak across the East-West European \u2018Iron Curtain\u2019 guiding three secret expeditions to save precious religious vocation of many young Salesians and other diocesan priests. During the last expedition he was caught and suffered 15 years long and horrible martyrdom in communist prisons!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 What sacrifice do we offer for the sake of vocations or for the building of vocation culture? Do we just wait some new candidates will come to our summer camp or monthly vocation encounter (Come and see)? Shining example of Fr. Titus shows us the way.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 During the missionary month of October let\u2019s accept Pope Francis invitation to go beyond our comfort zone, to get dirty and also hurt. I deeply believe that only in this way we can experience a deep and lasting Joy of the Gospel! When we cross our peaceful and safe environment of our school, family, parish or friends circle, we taste a true Gospel Joy!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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In Don Bosco<\/span><\/p>\n

Fr. V\u00e1clav Klement, SDB<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

EAO Regional councillor<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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