Maddalena Ngo thi Minh Chau,Maria Hoang ngoc Yen – “Nurturing of vocations on the journey of implantating the salesian charism in the first 30 years of the FMA in Vietnam” in “Implantation of the Salesian charism in Asia – Ideals, challenges, answers, results”

This contribution to the Salesian History Seminar on the implantation of the Salesian charism in the EAO region has great significance for the Vice-Province “Mary Help of Christians” of Vietnam, which will celebrate 50 years of the presence of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in 2011.

This paper focuses on the first thirty years ( 1960- 1990) of the FMA presence in Vietnam. Reflecting on the life and struggles of the Institute in our land during this period, we can see mirrored in the great concern of the pioneers for the care of vocations and the formation of its (future) members the ideals that guided them, the challenges faced and their response to them as well as the results obtained on the journey of implantation and growth of the Salesian charism.

Index:

• Introduction
• 1. FMA in Vietnam: the First Period (1961-1975)
  • 1.1. The Challenges
    • 1.1.1 Language, the Principal Difficulty
    • 1.1.2 Cultural Differences
    • 1.1.3 War, Uncertainty and Poverty
  • 1.2. Transmission of the Charism
    • 1.2. 1. Spiritual Foundations
    • 1.2.2 Life in the Aspirantate and Family Spirit
• 2. The second Period (1975-1990)
  • 2.1. Situation of the Institute after 1975
  • 2.2. The Challenges
  • 2.3. Formation and the Passing on of Charism
    • 2.3.1 Through Everyday Life
    • 2.3.2 Formative program for the Aspirants, Postulants, Novices
• Conclusion

Reference time period: 1960 – 1990

Reference institution:
ACSSA