中美洲「鮑思高之家」

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【慈幼通訊社 2019 04 02 哥斯達黎加卡塔哥訊】 一項由已婚夫婦及家庭牧民工作者發起,富有強烈慈幼精神的教會性活動,正在中美洲舉行,冀望能拯救並強化家庭。那些參與哥斯達黎加卡塔哥「聖道明沙維豪」慈幼中心的青年,他們的父母因著這項正在中美洲地區擴展的「鮑思高之家運動」,得到了陪伴及培育的機會。

2015年,Alejandro LoríaPriscilla Bogarín這對協進慈幼會士夫婦,獲邀進入卡塔哥「聖道明沙維豪」慈幼中心接受家庭牧民培育。他們進行了一項有關慈幼家庭不同形式臨在的研究,費盡不少精力,終於學會了源自西班牙「鮑思高之家」的經驗,在那裡找到了這運動,它匯集了他們一直在慈幼神修中的家庭牧民方面,所尋找的要素。事實上,鮑思高之家運動為那些經歷過慈幼精神,希望能在婚姻召叫之道路上持守的人,提供了另一種具體方式。

Priscilla說:「當我們接受了在哥斯達黎加,成立『鮑思高之家』組織的任務時,我們只想到為參與慈幼會中心的青年的家庭,提供培育的空間,使能對青年工作團體有所支援,然而我們在『鮑思高之家運動』中,找到我們所關注的,作為夫婦、父母、成年天國同行者,有關他們成長及在日常生活成聖方面的答案。」這樣,他們立即聯絡西班牙鮑思高之家運動委員會,親身接觸那裡的Cristóbal MarínIrene Blaya這對夫婦。

1965年,鮑思高之家運動在數名協進會會員的努力下,於西班牙成立。目前,鮑思高之家運動歡迎所有接受這個理念,尊重其原則及指引,願意過嚴謹的人性及基督徒成長生命歷程的夫婦。

中美洲的首個團體,於201710月在卡塔哥成立。成員至今經歷了重大的挑戰,並得到了慈幼家庭眾多成員的全力支援,包括中美洲會省省會長Ángel Prado神父及副省會長Javier Rivas神父。

總會長慈幼家庭代理Eusebio Muñoz神父,也在最近舉行的第四屆中美洲慈幼家庭會議中,分享到他們的經歷。他在會議中說:「我們邀請你們認識『鮑思高之家』的豐盛。我們期望盡力接觸更多家庭,把他們置於聖母進教之佑的護佑下。」

 

“Hogares Don Bosco” in Central America

 

(ANS Costa RicaCartago, 15 April 2019) – An ecclesial movement of married couples and family apostolate, with a strong Salesian spirituality, is taking hold in Central America, as an option of hope to save and strengthen families. What was born simply as a possibility of accompaniment and formation for the parents of the young people who attended the “Santo Domingo Savio” Salesian center in Cartago, Costa Rica, has instead become the gateway through which the “Hogares Don Bosco Movement”(HDB) is expanding today in the Central American region.

In 2015, the married couple Alejandro Loría and Priscilla Bogarín, two Costa Rican Salesian Cooperators, was called to the Salesian Center “Santo Domingo Savio” of Cartago to start the Family Pastoral. After an arduous research on the different options present in the Salesian Family, they learned about the experience of the “Hogares Don Bosco” (Don Bosco Houses) born in Spain, and found therein a movement that brought together all the features they had been seeking in a Family Pastoral in Salesian spirituality. In fact, HDBs offer a concrete option for all those who have experienced a Salesian spirituality and wish to maintain it within the vocation to marriage to which they have been called.

“When we accepted the adventure of forming a group of ‘Hogares Don Bosco’ in Costa Rica, we thought only of offering a space of growth for the families of the young people who attend the Salesian center, in order to support the work that the groups do with children, but in the HDB we have found an answer to our concerns of growth as spouses, as parents, as adult co-workers of the Kingdom of God, called to a daily life of holiness,” said Priscila. And this is how they immediately contacted the National HDB Commission of Spain, in the persons of the married couple Cristóbal Marín and Irene Blaya.

The HDB Movement was born in 1965 in Spain, thanks to several Salesian Cooperators. Today the HDBs welcome all those couples who, by freely accepting the underlying ideal and respecting its norms and guidelines, want to undertake a serious journey of human and Christian growth.

In Central America, from the foundation of the first group in Cartago, in October 2017, until today, the current members have traveled a challenging path and have had the full support of many members of the Salesian Family, including Fr Ángel Prado, Salesian Provincial of Central America (CAM), and Fr Javier Rivas, his Vicar.

Their experience was also shared by the Delegate of the Rector Major for the Salesian Family, Fr Eusebio Muñoz, SDB, during the recent IV Central American Meeting of the Salesian Family: “We invite you to recognize the richness that exists in ‘Hogares Don Bosco’. We wish to reach as many families as we can and place them under the protection of our Mother Help of Christians.” he said on that occasion.