【慈幼通訊社 ─ 2019 年 02月 05 日羅馬慈幼總部訊】 ─ 在聖鮑思高瞻禮日，慈幼家庭聖人列品記錄作出更新，反映了2018年的列品情況。聖人列品案慈幼會代理人Pierluigi Cameroni神父解釋說：「在這個時刻，列品案室共記錄有50項列品案，總數為168人，包括聖人、真福、可敬者及天主忠僕。此外，有5項列品案正交付我們的列品案室，包括可敬者Casimiro Barello、Camille Costa de Beauregard及Jan Tyranowski、天主忠僕Augusto Bertazzoni及Felice Canelli。」
每位聖人、真福、可敬者及天主忠僕，都擁有某些方面的價值，是應予以考查及評估的。這就像凝視一顆有多面的鑽石，一些面較注目，另一些較暗淡，但每個面都是真實而重要的。認識這些超凡的信者，能進一步參與他們的旅程，熱切關注他們的故事，喜樂地分享那些策勵他們前行的事業及信念。
無疑，看到慈幼家庭的一些成員，進入這些列品案中，對慈幼家庭，尤其是15個主要團體來說，意義重大。正如盧華神父於1888年2月，鮑思高神父於瓦沙利切入土為安後數天，致函慈幼會的院長們說：「從此，這就成為我們的格言：神子的聖德，就是會祖聖德的證明。」
本年度總會長贈言是一份強烈的邀請，去認識並鑑賞這份寶貴的遺產，並要喚起更新的成聖決心。總會長寫道：「親愛的兄弟姊妹，我可放膽說，我們今天慈幼世界最需要、最迫切要做的，並非做更多的事業，或計劃或重塑新的形象……卻是要展現我們個人及團體的生活所傳遞的訊息，以及我們如何活出福音，透過不斷發展延續，作為耶穌生命的延伸。這實在是我們成聖的成敗關鍵！」
這份列品案記錄，也可幫助我們對這些福音的見證人，以及普世的慈幼神恩，有更深入的認識，並祈求日益肖似他們。
168 figures of sainthood in Salesian Family: “Dossier of Salesian Postulation”
(ANS – Rome–RMG, 05 February 2019) – On the occasion of the Feast of Don Bosco the Dossier of the General Postulation of the Causes of Saints of the Salesian Family has been updated, presenting the situation of the Causes of Beatification and Canonization in 2018. “At this moment,” explains Fr Pierluigi Cameroni, SDB, Postulator General, “Postulation accompanies 50 Causes concerning 168 between Saints, Blessed, Venerable, Servants of God. There are also 5 other causes entrusted to our Postulation: the Venerable Casimiro Barello, Camille Costa de Beauregard and Jan Tyranowski, the Servants of God Augusto Bertazzoni and Felice Canelli.”
Every Saint, Blessed, Venerable, Servant of God is the bearer of a wealth of aspects that must be considered and valued. It is a matter of contemplating a diamond with many faces, some more visible and attractive, others less immediate, but no less true and decisive. Knowing and making known these extraordinary figures of believers generates a progressive involvement in their journey, a passionate interest in their affairs, a joyous sharing of projects and hopes that animated their steps.
No doubt it will be of great interest for the Salesian Family, and especially for 15 Groups of the great family tree, to see some of their members involved in one of these processes. As Fr Rua wrote in a letter to the Salesian directors in February 1888, a few days after the burial of Don Bosco’s body in Valsalice: “Be it our motto from now on: the sanctity of the children be proof of the sanctity of the father.”
The Strenna of the Rector Major for this year is a strong invitation to know and appreciate this precious heritage and to stimulate renewed resolutions of holiness. The Rector Major wrote: “My dear brothers and sisters, I can safely say that the greatest need and the greatest urgency we have today in our Salesian world is not to do more things, to plan and redesign new realities, to start new presences… but to show what our lives communicate personally and collectively, our way of living the Gospel, which develops and extends over time, as a prolongation of the way of life of Jesus. Ultimately our sanctity is at stake!”
This subsidy can also be an instrument to grow in the knowledge, in prayer and in the imitation of these witnesses of the Gospel and of the Salesian charism in the world.
On the web are available the dossiers and the updated version of the Poster of Holiness.