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24 January 2013 P R O V I N C I A L Australia-Pacific Province of Mary Help of Christians IN THIS ISSUE Provincial’s Foreword Farewell to Br Henry van der Laan Let Us Pray Congratulations Cagliero Commissioning Salesian Bulletin Upcoming Events Thought for the Month Number 535 C I R C U L A R
24 January 2013 Provincial Circular Page 6 FAREWELL TO BR HENRY VAN DER LAAN On Monday 7 January 2013 at ‘Rupertswood’ we farewelled our dear friend and confrere, Henry van der Laan, who went to his heavenly reward on 30 December 2012 at the age of 87. During the Funeral Mass in the new chapel at Salesian College, we celebrated Henry’s long and fruitful Salesian life both in the Netherlands, where he served from 1953 to 1963, and in Australia, where he ministered from 1963 in Sunbury, Boys Town Engadine (for over 30 years), Palmerston, Sunbury again, and finally John Paul Village in his beloved Engadine. Number 535 In his homily, Fr Bernie Graham, our Vice-Provincial, reminded us of how seriously and wholeheartedly Henry lived out Jesus’ injunction: “In so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine you did it to me.” In this regard, “he was legendary as a provider of things to feed, quench the thirst and clothe people - the boys, the Salesian and Sisters communities, families, whomever and wherever. And in many cases these were often the neediest of the needy, and the least of the least.” “He was also well known as a welcomer and visitor of people: the stranger, the ill and even those in prison - and all of these categories made up part of the broader Boys’ Town community of those years, among the boys, their families and the past pupils, a group he loved dearly and they loved and appreciated him.” Bernie concluded by saying, on behalf of us all: “Henry, we thank you for the gift that you have been to the young, as a son of Don Bosco and a witness to Jesus the Christ.” During the week before Henry’s farewell and burial at Sunbury, the Engadine Community itself had come together to celebrate Henry’s life and contribution in a Requiem Mass at the Mary Help of Christians Church, Heathcote NSW on Thursday 3 January. During his homily on this occasion, Fr Peter Carroll, Rector of the Engadine Salesian Community, paid a moving tribute to Henry: “So here is the face of God; a revelation in the infectious smile and little laugh, in the requests that would wear you down so people had to say yes. But the image of God lies, I think, even more in the gnarled hands and worn-out knees; the image of Jesus who in earlier years was either a factotum or a tekton, an apprentice carpenter/mason. There is too the legacy of St Joseph; the worker, the provider, the one who accepted without too many questions, the one so often in the
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