總會長2020年贈言發佈:「我們的天父的政治」

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【慈幼通訊社 2019 12 27 羅馬慈幼總部訊】 ─ 總會長透過贈言的訊息,邀請整個慈幼家庭,在自我神恩的道路上行走時,也要懂得如何尋找新的途徑。這一年是整個六年周期的尾聲,贈言中要指出需要我們保存和珍惜的資產:鮑思高繼任人范達民神父,在2020年內,由慈幼教育法的中心重新出發,描繪出「我們的天父的政治」。今天,1227日星期五,他在母佑會總院,首次發表這贈言。

 

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「良好公民和熱心教友」,是2020年贈言的標題,這深化了福音的教導:「願你的旨意奉行在人間,如同在天上。 」總會長在母佑會溫幗儀修母面前,送上這贈言,在場的還有他的議會,慈幼會社會傳播議員岡薩雷斯神父,以及慈幼家庭其他成員。他首先覆述了鮑思高神父各種勸勉青年的方式和說話,要他們懂得成為酵母,使世界變得更公義和更人道。

 

接著,他逐步進入成為熱心教友的不同範疇:在日常生活中的熱心教友,受著信德光照的,在謹慎的思辨中的,懷著福傳熱忱的,有真正的慈幼神修的,往訓萬民的,勇敢地從自己的舒適區走出去的。

 

27-RMG-02同樣地,他也指出成為良好公民的先決條件與標準:向青年見證公義,團結共融,保護最弱小者,教導青年成為積極負責的公民,在政治方面服務社會,戒絕任何形式的貪污,關顧這流動性及移居性的世界現象,關心這個共同的居所,有效地尊重人權……

 

2019年贈言將在慈幼家庭的領袖中,作進一步的闡述和探討,作為20201月在都靈華道角舉行的慈幼家庭神修日的一部份。

 

2020年贈言影片,已刊載於慈幼通訊社頻道,備有不同語言版本。

 

Presentation of Rector Major’s Strenna for 2020: the “politics of Our Father”

 

(ANS Rome – RMG, 27 December 2020) – The Strenna’s message represents an invitation addressed by the Rector Major to the whole Salesian Family to know how to trace new paths, even in the wake of their own charism. This year then, reaching the end of a six-year term, the Strenna really wants to indicate a legacy to be preserved and valued: for 2020 the Successor of Don Bosco, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, started again from the heart of the Salesian educational system to illustrate “politics of Our Father”. Today, Friday 27 December, he presented it as a premiere at the Generalate of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians.

 

“Good Christians and Upright Citizens” is the title of the Strenna 2020, which deepens the Gospel verse: “Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” The Rector Major, in his presentation before Mother Yvonne Reungoat, Mother General of the FMA, with his Council, of Fr Filiberto González, General Councilor for Social Communication, and other members of the Salesian Family, began by recalling the many different ways and expressions with which Don Bosco exhorted to form young people who knew how to be the leaven of a more just and more humane world.

 

Subsequently he delved, step by step, into the many areas in which to be good Christians: good Christians in daily life illuminated by faith, in careful discernment, in apostolic zeal and evangelizer, in an authentically Salesian spirituality, in missions ad gentes, in courageously going outward towards the peripheries and out of one’s own comfort zones …

 

In the same way, then, he indicated the priorities and criteria for living as upright citizens in the world: bearing witness of justice to young people, solidarity, the protection of the most vulnerable, educating young people to active and responsible citizenship and to service in politics, pushing away from oneself every form of corruption, taking care of a world in movement and in migration, of caring for the common home, of effective respect for Human Rights …

 

The Strenna 2019 will then be further illustrated and explored with the leaders of the Salesian Family as part of the Salesian Family Spirituality Days to be held in Turin-Valdocco in January 2020.

 

The Strenna 2020 video is available on ANSChannel, in the various language channels.