【慈幼通訊社
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2013
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09
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20
日意大利
Genzano
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9月18日星期三，慈幼會新傳教士預備課程第15天，舉行了兩件大事：其一是在聖伯多祿廣場，參加教宗方濟各和信眾的會見；其二是在
Genzano
慈幼會初學院舉行會議。
星期三早上，一行36名傳教士及預備課程籌辦者，齊集聖伯多祿廣場，參與教宗和信眾的會見。教宗講話主題為「教會是我們的母親」。講話主題及教宗的講話技巧，給這些未來傳教士留下深刻印象。
下午，傳教士到訪位於 Genzano 的慈幼會初學院。初學院以聖雷鳴道命名，他是一位對初學生及傳教士具影響力的的人物。他於1896年至1905年，擔任初學院院長及初學師，後來率領傳教士成為慈幼會首批前往澳門及中國的會士。
初學生與傳教士的會面，猶如五旬節當天所發生的一樣 ─ 24個國籍的人士相聚一起。然而，雙方對話沒有障礙，並十分有趣。會面帶來一份新鮮感，大家都侃侃而談，大抵因為雙方團體都在9月初才成立，屬新的團體。
傳教士與初學生分成6組，彼此分享他們的聖召歷程。經驗較豐富的傳教士，向初學生透露他們的慈幼會傳教聖召如何萌芽生長。初學生記憶猶新的聖召經歷，與傳教士較穩重踏實的意願交織一起，使各人得益不少。
面談過後，全體一起參與彌撒，作為相會的結束。彌撒由傳教議員賢明漢神父主持。他請初學生們想想，如何在重燃歐洲鮑思高神恩上作出貢獻。彌撒禮成後，每名初學生都獲贈一串傳教玫瑰唸珠，並許諾為傳教事業及傳教聖召祈禱。
傳教士返回總部前，與約100名慶禮院的青年舉行慈幼會傳統晚訓，大家彼此分享。Genzano 的青年尤其欣賞 Giovanni Mandrella 神父的講話，他曾加入慶禮院，後來在 Genzano 接受初學。現在他跟隨聖雷鳴道的芳踪，開展同一福傳之路。
New Salesian Missionaries
(ANS - Italy –Genzano, 20 September 2013) – Wednesday 18 September, the fifteenth day of the preparatory course for new Salesian missionaries, was marked by two significant events: the audience with Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square, and a meeting with the novices in the Salesian Novitiate at Genzano.
On the Wednesday morning the group of 36 missionaries and the organizers of the course were present at the general audience in St Peter’s Square. The Pope’s talk was entitled “The Church is our Mother”. The topic and the Pope’s communication skills made a deep impression on the future missionaries.
In the afternoon the missionaries visited the Salesian Novitiate at Genzano. The novitiate is named after St Louis Versiglia, a significant figure for both novices and missionaries. He was the first Rector and Novice Master at Genzano, from 1896 to 1905, and later the leader of the first Salesian Missionary expedition to Macao and China.
The meeting of the two groups was a kind of Pentecostal moment – between novices and missionaries there were 24 different nationalities represented. Nevertheless, conversation proved both possible and interesting. There was great freshness and enthusiasm, helped perhaps by the fact that both groups had been formed only recently, at the beginning of September.
The missionaries and novices split up into six groups to share their vocational stories. The missionaries with their greater experience told the novices how their Salesian missionary vocation was born. The blend of the freshness of the vocational experience of the novices and the more solid motivation of the missionaries was enriching for everyone.
The meeting ended with Mass in which all took an active part. Fr Václav Klement, Councillor for the Salesian Missions, presided. He asked the novices to think about what contribution they could make to the revitalization of the charism in Europe. At the end of the Mass each of the novices received a missionary rosary, and promised to pray for the missions and for missionary vocations.
Before returning to the Generalate, the missionaries shared the traditional Salesian Goodnight with about 100 young people who attend the Oratory. The young people of Genzano appreciated particularly the words of Fr Giovanni Mandrella, who had attended the Oratory as a boy and later the novitiate in Genzano. Now he is setting out on the same missionary road as St Louis Versiglia.