Hajja Salesjana October - December 2018

In 1974, the confreres working in Malta were asked to propose a set of rules to govern the formation and running of the Provincial Delegation in Malta. A working group of four confreres was set up to draw up a report on the proposals received. The working group presented its report on the 25th April 1974. Now everything was ready to choose the first Provincial Delegate. In August 1974, after a wide consultation among all the confreres of Malta, Fr. Joseph Borg was nominated Provincial Delegate. He was followed by Frs. Charles Cini, Victor Mangion, Alfred Sacco and Paul Formosa. In 1977, the Salesians accepted the proposal of the Parish Priest of Luqa to take over and run a big Oratory in his parish. Some confreres from the Dingli and then the Sliema communities used to go to Luqa on a daily basis because the building, which was owned by the parish, was not equipped to house a religious community and this created practical difficulties. For ten years we tried in vain to obtain from a succession of parish priests the relative funds and permissions to change this situation. It was during this time that the Congregation embarked upon Project Africa and the Rector Major, Fr Egidio Vigano, started asking the Maltese Delegation to adopt Tunisia as our mission territory. Site visits and consultations among the confreres 26 History Of The Maltese Salesian Delegation