【慈幼通訊社 ─ 2019 年 02月 06 日羅馬慈幼總部訊】 ─ 2月4日星期一，總會長范達民神父正式宣告：「締造和平修女會」(Religious Institute of the Mediators of Peace – IRIMEP)為慈幼家庭的一份子，即成為慈幼家庭第32個認可組別。
總會長簽署的這項法令，是應IRIMEP 總部議會Lucia Barbosa de Oliveira修女的請求，在得到總會長的議會、相關主教及巴西累西腓(Recife)會省省會長的正面回應，並考慮到該修會由慈幼會士創立的歷史，以及與慈幼會士時常保持屬神及使命關係的背景後，得以達成的。
納入慈幼家庭的申請程序，已進行了數年之久。這修會於1968年由慈幼會士Antonio Campelo蒙席創立，當時他為巴西伯南布科州彼得羅利納的總主教；在他1984去世時，隸屬於教區的獻身修會「和平締造者修女會」(Mediatrix Sisters of Peace)，已正式要求納入慈幼家庭。
1986年，當時的總會長衛甘諾神父，致函回覆修女們說：「我對你們在教會中的臨在，感到高興，並祝賀你們（期間）所作的進步，願你們這經歷的階段達致最佳的成果。」
慈幼會會憲清楚寫道：「許多人受了鮑思高神父的感染，以不同方式，為造福青少年而工作。」Joan Lluis Playá神父到訪過一些在巴西，由「和平使者」(Messengers of Peace)所開展的社會服務工作，他表示這個修會「分享了鮑思高神父的使命，為貧窮及被遺棄、身處危險境地及極度貧困地區的人士服務」。
總會長慈幼家庭代理Eusebio Muñoz神父，得悉「慈幼家庭不僅在數目上不斷增長，更在神恩層面不斷提升」，表達一份無比的喜悅，「因為哪裡有一位像鮑思高神父般工作，那裡就有能拯救最貧苦的青年的事業。」
修會目前有七十名修道者，並得到約300 名協助者的幫助，共同分擔牧民與社會教育工作。Playá神父又說：「她們的成立，是為服務教會中最偏遠而極度貧困的地區。我在總會長的指引下，到訪她們進行牧民工作的地區，看到她們確實是『慈幼會士』，獻身於最貧苦無告的青年。」
有關慈幼家庭32個團體的資料，可瀏覽http://www.impaz.org.br/。
New group in Salesian Family: “Instituto Religioso das Irmàs Medianeiras da Paz”
(ANS – Rome–RMG, 06 February 2019) – On Monday 4 February the Rector Major, Fr Angel Fernandez Artime, officially decreed the entrance of the “Instituto Religioso das Irmàs Medianeiras da Paz” (Religious Institute of the Mediators of Peace – IRIMEP) into the Salesian Family, thus becoming the latter’s 32nd recognized group.
The decree signed by the Rector Major states that this decision was made following the request of Sister Lucia Barbosa de Oliveira, General Coordinator of IRIMEP, and after the positive opinion expressed by his Council, the bishops concerned and the Provincial of Brazil-Recife, as well as considering the history of the Institute, the foundation by a Salesian and the spiritual and apostolic relationship always maintained with the Salesians.
Entry into the Salesian Family has been a process that has lasted several years. The institute was founded in 1968 by Msgr. Antonio Campelo, Salesian and Archbishop of Petrolina (State of Pernambuco, Brazil); on his death, in 1984, the “Mediatrix Sisters of Peace”, religious belonging to the Institutes of Consecrated Life of Diocesan Right, formally asked to become part of the Salesian Family.
In 1986 Fr Egidio Viganó, then Rector Major, replied to a letter from the same Sisters, and wrote: “I rejoice in your presence in the Church and I congratulate you on the progress you have made (in the meantime) that this experience phase end with the best results.”
As is clearly written in the Salesian Constitutions: “From Don Bosco derives a vast movement of people who, in different ways, work for the salvation of the young.” And this institute “shares the mission of Don Bosco to work for the poor, the abandoned, the people in danger and in areas where poverty is extreme,” said Fr Joan Lluis Playá, who has visited some of the social works that the “Messengers of Peace” are developing in Brazil.
Fr Eusebio Muñoz, Delegate of the Rector Major for the Salesian Family, expressed his great joy in knowing that “the Salesian Family continues to grow, not only numerically, but above all at the charismatic level, because where there is a member who works as Don Bosco, these work for the salvation of the poorest young people.”
Seventy religious are currently part of the institute, assisted by about 300 collaborators who share with the sisters the pastoral and socio-educational mission. “They were born with the concern to reach the most remote places in the Church, where poverty is really extreme,” added Fr Playá. “I have visited, under the direction of the Rector Major, the places where they carry out their apostolate and they are evidently ‘Salesians’, being missions among disadvantaged young people.”
More information on the 32nd group of the Salesian Family is available on their website: http://www.impaz.org.br/