【慈幼通訊社 ─ 2020 年 11月 09 日羅馬慈幼總部訊】 ─ 論及預防教育法的慈幼會會憲第38條，其內容所展現的光芒，清楚表達於十一月份發表的第三輯影片的重點，這輯影片是為幫助傳播「年輕慈幼會士與陪伴——方向及指引」。
文件重點在於第四章的開端：培育。無論慈幼會士身處的背景，又或是慈幼會士本身的團體，都日益呈現跨文化情況，慈幼會士受到召叫，在這種環境中接觸數碼青年文化。在文化與世代之間建立橋樑，無疑是慈幼會士需要實踐的使命。
《生活的基督》主教會議的成果，以及第28屆全代會，都清楚指出青年的領導角色。同樣地，在這份文件編寫的各個階段，都依循著這這個結論，也是文件所要帶領我們的。十一月份影片傳播的重點，就是這個結論，並作出更深入的闡述。
人不能以局外觀察者的角度，接觸並融入數碼文化。那些對數碼文化有最直接接觸，經驗最深的，就是慈幼會士團體中的青年：備修生、初學生、初期培育會士。只有這些接受培育的青年，以及培育者群組，較年長及較年輕的成員，聚在一起，他們才能找到聖神引領他們的路徑，使數碼生活成為自然福傳環境，與那些等待著一位樂於與他們接觸，進入他們世界的一位鮑思高神父相遇，正如他在首個慶禮院中，對那些都靈最貧困地區的青年所做的一樣。
這輯三分鐘長的影片，以及在影片末段中，Nikola、Benny、Rufin、Daniel及 Alvaro所發問的，有助喚起對培育各方面的反省。最後要問的是：「這份培育經驗，能否讓我們作好準備，使我們能在『他們的自由所在之處』，以他們的語言及文化接觸他們？培育與福傳在什麼方面，使其互相保持距離？」
不同地區及語言使用者，可於Google Doc的指定地點分享有關意見。
Where their freedom lies
(ANS – Rome–RMG, 09 November 2020) – The light that emerges from the text of article 38 of the Salesian Constitutions, dedicated to the Preventive System, clearly expresses the focus of the third seed which in November is offered as an aid for the dissemination of “Young Salesians and Accompaniment – Orientations & Guidelines.”
Attention goes to the beginning of chapter IV of the document: inculturated formation. Salesians are called to relate to youth culture, which is digital, in increasingly intercultural environments, both for the contexts in which the Salesians are inserted, and within the Salesian communities themselves, where building bridges between cultures and generations is, without doubt, the mission to be carried out.
If the leading role of young people is a clear direction, indicated by the Synod of Bishops dedicated to them, by Christus Vivit – which is its mature fruit – as well as by the 28th General Chapter, certainly this is also the path that has been followed at all stages of the development of this document, and that is precisely where it wants to lead us. Within the text, and more so in this part on which the November video-seed focuses.
One cannot relate or tune in to digital culture as outside observers. Those who have the most direct and profound experience of it are the young people who are part of the Salesian communities: pre-novices, novices, confreres in initial formation. Only together, young people in formation and team of formators, young and old, can they find the paths through which the Spirit wants to lead so that the digital habitat is the natural mission field, the place to meet the young people who are waiting for a Don Bosco capable of relating, entering in synch, with them, as he did with the youths of Turin’s poorest areas at the time of the first Oratory.
The seed video stimulates reflection on these and other aspects that INCULTURED FORMATION recalls, also through the questions that Nikola, Benny, Rufin, Daniel, and Alvaro ask at the end of the 3-minute video message. The final question is: “How does the formation experience prepare us and enable us to meet young people in the ‘point where their freedom is’, with their languages and cultures? In what respect do formation and mission remain, instead, distant from each other?”
The video in ENGLISH is accessible here and on sdb.org.
On Google Doc, a space is accessible in which to share opinions on this issue, across regions and languages.