Gathering of MSC Initial Formation Team, Cuskelly House, Blackburn.

Initial formators from Australia and Vietnam are meeting in Melbourne this week. They will discuss the MSC Initial Formation Document “Emmaus – Formation of the Heart”. This is an update of the previous document, “Valladolid (1992)”. The Australian Province’s initial formation process will be reviewed in light of Emmaus.  Please keep them in your prayers this week as they gather at Cuskelly House in Blackburn from 25-29 November.

Those gathered are Danh Nguyen Thanh Doan MSC Pre-Novitiate formator (Vietnam), Dominic Gleeson MSC – Pre-Novitiate Director (Australia), Thi Dinh Nguyen MSC - Assistant MSC Director of Novices of MSC Novitiate in the Philippines, Khoi Nguyen MSC – Novitiate Director (AUST), Quang Vu Bui MSC -   Post Novitiate Director (Vietnam), Mark Hanns MSC - Post Novitiate Director (Aust) and Krish Mathavan MSC (Aus).

Province Update on Formators’ Meeting 25-29 Nov 2024

Day 1 – 25 November 2024

We began our first day of meeting with an extended time of prayer, personal sharing of where we are this day, and listening to each other. In the second morning session, we entered into the Emmaus Document with some reflective reading time, reflective sharing from what we read, and communal discernment of where God spoke to us. In the afternoon, Dominic Gleeson and Danh Doan, the pre-novitiate directors in Australia and Vietnam, shared from their reflections on the current situations of the pre-novitiate in the relevant contexts and in the light of the Emmaus Document. We recognised some commonalities but also some differences in these places.

Reported by Khoi Nguyen msc