第149批慈幼傳教士接受派遣 149th Salesian Missionary Expedition has started!(ANS,更新)

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【慈幼通訊社 2018 10 02 意大利都靈訊】 ─鮑思高神父第十位繼任者范達民神父,派遣了第149批慈幼傳教士往世界各地,包括25名慈幼會士及11名母佑會修女,並向他們說:「你們要以鮑思高之名,並為紀念首批受派遣的傳教士,你們去並向世界各地的青年及貧苦者,宣告復活基督的喜樂!」

 

派遣禮於930日主日,在都靈聖母進教之佑大殿舉行。在場參禮的,還有母佑會總會長溫幗儀修母,以及眾多共祭者:副總會長謝理達神父(Francesco Cereda)、傳教議員Guillermo Basañes神父和多位慈幼會省會長。

 

想像力、創造力、使徒勇氣、耐心等待、熱切的愛……這些都是傳教士所需要的,使他們成為在青年中的「救恩的標記和帶給者。」

 

在彌撒講道中,范達民神父提醒傳教士,他們分受了鮑思高神父及聖女瑪莎利羅同一份的神恩。他表示,正確來說,這份神恩使他們免於作「工作的奴隸」,卻把早期慈幼會士及母佑會修女的溫良呵護,帶到今天的貧苦青年身上。

 

接著,他促請他們不要成為傳教事務的「主人」,卻要去服侍人,意識到自己是「倒轉金字塔的頂部」。因此,聆聽是基本的工夫,「要感受天主,以及祂子民的呼號。」

 

最後,范達民神父強調143年來,這149批傳教士見證的重要性,他重申一份對他們的邀請,要先為最有需要人士獻身。他總結道:「這邀請來自最微末的人,你們要成為堅決並勇毅的傳教士。」

 

25名於昨天接受任命的慈幼會傳教士,其中五名將繼續接受由慈幼宗座大學提供的傳教士培育,而其他傳教士已完成必要的培育,隨即前往傳教目的地。11位接受派遣的母佑會修女,將參與傳教培育課程,預計明年六月完成。

 

一些傳教士早些出發,一些將會出發,最後各人都會展開他們「向普世萬民傳揚生命福音」的使命,成為「願意帶給眾人豐富生命的耶穌,像慈祥父母般臨在來陪伴青年。」

 

彌撒影片由意大利南會省社會傳播組策劃製作,已上載於慈幼通訊社的臉書。相片可於 ANSFlickr 瀏覽。

 

149th Salesian Missionary Expedition has started!

 

(ANS Italy  Turin, 01 October 2018) – “In the name of Don Bosco and in the memory of the first missionary expedition, go and announce to the world’s young and poor the joy of the risen Christ!” With these words, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, X Successor of Don Bosco, sent the 25 Salesians and the 11 Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) of the 149th Salesian Missionary Expedition into and across the world.

 

The celebration, which took place on Sunday 30 September in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin, also saw the participation of Mother Yvonne Reungoat, FMA Superior General, and numerous concelebrants: the Vicar of the Rector Major, Fr Francesco Cereda, Fr Guillermo Basañes, General Councilor for the Missions, and various Salesian Provincials.

 

Imagination, creativity, apostolic courage, patience in waiting, enthusiasm in love … These will be some of the features necessary for the missionaries so that they be among the young as “signs and bearers of Salvation.”

 

In the homily of the Mass, Fr Á.F. Artime reminded the missionaries they had received “a part” of the same spirit of Don Bosco and Mother Mazzarello. It is precisely that spirit, he said, that will lead them not so much to “doing, doing, doing …”, but to broadening the embrace and tender humanity of the early Salesians and early FMA to today’s poor youth.

 

Then he urged them not to feel “masters” of the missions, but rather to serve, aware of being “the peak of an inverted pyramid”. In this sense, therefore, listening will be fundamental, “to feel God and the cry of His people.”

 

Finally, underlining how significant the testimony of 149 expeditions over 143 years is to the world, Fr Á.F. Artime renewed the invitation to dedicate oneself first of all to the most needy: “be tenacious and courageous missionaries from the little ones and the last,” he concluded.

 

Of the 25 Salesian missionaries who received the mandate yesterday, five will now continue their missionary formation through a course offered by the Salesian Pontifical University, while the others, having completed the bureaucratic formalities, will immediately leave for their respective destinations. The 11 FMA of the expedition, for their part, will all attend a program of missionary formation that will end in June.

 

With some leaving before, others later, in the end everyone will start off on their mission to “proclaim the Gospel of life to the peoples” to be “for the young a fatherly and maternal presence of Jesus, who wants abundant life for everyone.”

 

The video of the Mass is available on the Facebook page of ANS, curated by “IME Comunicazione”. The photos are available on ANSFlickr.