The final edition of the Tornaviaje released last December 2016 featured the previous editions of the newsletter on its front and back covers.
What started out as a newsletter, later on turned out to be one of the most successful endeavors of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines when it comes to information dissemination. Now, the Provincial newsletter, Tornaviaje, has come to a close with its final publication which was released last December 2016.
In his message published in the Tornaviaje, Rev. Fr. Javier Antolin, Prior Provincial of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines, expressed his gratitude to all the religious, correspondents and contributors who have been responsible in making the newsletter a reality.
“We have to recognize that the newsletter has been a great tool to disseminate and help to live the missionary sense of the Province to all readers since, given the breadth of the same, it was becoming increasingly difficult to be directly in the places of mission… the rest of the religious, reading the accounts and reports that appeared in the bulletins year after year, have been able to know and be somewhat closely present, in spite of the distance from the other brethren in the most remote or isolated places.,” Fr. Antolin said in his message.
The newsletter began as ‘Boletin Informativo,’ with its first publication dated January 1973. It was renamed ‘Tornaviaje’ in 2002 and was responsible in disseminating to all readers the latest news and information from the province, as well as the work, mission, and apostolates not only of the Province of the Philippines but of other Augustinian provinces as well. It has also covered stories about the Augustinian sisters of both active and contemplative life as well as the Augustinian laity.
Tornaviaje has also been a witness to history, reporting on significant events that happened around the province, like the erection of the new province of Santo Nino de Cebu – Philippines, the presence in the delegations of Tanzania and Central America, the erection of the new Augustinian Vicariate of Our Lady of Grace in India, the pioneering educational apostolates around Spain, among others.
At the end of his message, Fr. Antolin bids farewell to the newsletter “not with melancholy but with a joyful recognition that it has finished a chapter and a task.”
“…The Province of the Philippines continues and we hope that the bulletin of the new era may also help all of us to feel more Augustinian, closer to the brothers from the different geographical locations and in solidarity of the missionary activity of the different circumscriptions of the Provinces of Augustinians of Spain,” he continued.