DON BOSCO YUVA SUDAN, JABALPUR
12December2011


DON BOSCO YUVA SADAN, Jabalpur

Diocese of Jabalpur
1991 – Don Bosco

Historical Perspective

In 1991, Land was purchased for a Study House for the Aspirants to do their XI & XII and also as a place for the young Salesians to do their college studies. The house was canonically erected on 12 July 1992.

A well-furnished library has been set up with books for both the students and the Salesians. Special care has been taken to get books on Salesiana for the boys. There are playgrounds for the boys to train themselves in.

Services : Aspirantate

The students of class XI & XII attend St. Aloysius or other Schools in the city.

Fr. Rector and his team with great care follow up the development of this aspirantate keeping the `formation of the aspirants’ in all their plans. Even though it is meant to be a full-time formation house, Don Bosco Yuva Sadan has taken up one of the mission stations of the parish for Sunday ministry. The students go to different parishes on Sundays for liturgical participation and animation and youth ministry. Thus they care for their formation and participation in the mission of the local Church.

Salesian Staff

Fr. Pradeep Tirkey                   -       Dean of Studies
Br. Roy Kurian                           -       Administrator
Fr. Mathai Vellappallil              -       Rector (2009)

Contact

Don Bosco Yuva Sadan
Mandla Road, Bilheri
Jabalpur 482 020, MADHYA PRADESH, M.P.

(0761) 260 3690 /260 4678     -    House / Rector
(0761) 408 1388                        –    Administrator

vellappallil@yahoo.com    –    Fr. V.V. Mathai / House


Provincial Speaks

The Province of Good Shepherd, New Delhi, has completed just 11 years. Our strength is 14 regular houses and 10 presences with 160 confreres. The geographical area under our care is very vast : 12 states and one Union Territory, where the youth in significant numbers are illiterate and poor, and the total Catholic population is a mere 0.4% that is 2 million.

We are aware that, with our present limited human and material resources, we may not be able to reach out to big numbers, but, as mother Teresa would say, we believe that, though we are but a drop in the ocean, still, if that drop is not there, the ocean is not full. We do wish to make a difference where we are present by being ‘Salt and Light’. We interpret the location of the Provincial House in the capital of the nation as a God-given exposure demanding great vocational responsibility. We feel indeed like the biblical ‘city on the mountain tip’ called to bear witness to Don Bosco and his spirit in an authentic way.