【慈幼通訊社
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2014
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06
月
12
日羅馬慈幼總部訊】
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2014年6月12日，為聖多明我沙維豪封聖六十周年，他是鮑思高神父慶禮院孕育的第一顆聖德果實。為紀念這件大事，我們引述了教宗庇護十二世在封聖典禮上的講話。
「在我們眼中，多明我沙維豪看似一名孱弱的青少年，身體虛弱，然而他的靈魂，卻以完全的奉獻自己向基督那細膩而有所要求的愛開放。以這輕輕的年紀來說，我們會認為他有著良善及可愛的性情，然而我們卻在他內，令我們驚訝看到，來自恩寵的神妙啟發，以及恆常對天國事理毫無保留的堅持，而他的信德使他能以如此罕有的強度領悟這些天國事理。」
在他的神修導師、偉大的聖若望鮑思高的指導下，多明我沙維豪學到，喜樂地侍奉天主和使祂為同伴所愛，可成為使徒工作強力的方法。1854年12月8日，他在熱愛童貞聖母的神魂超拔中，整個人被提上升，其後不久，他與一些朋友參與聖母無原罪善會，目的是在聖德的路上邁進，以及避免甚至最小的罪過。
他勉勵同伴祈禱、敦品勵行、勤領聖事、誦唸玫瑰經，躲避罪惡與誘惑。他不怕別人反對，對於倔強任性、執迷不悟的同伴，每每以堅決而友愛的態度勸止，引導他們盡好本份。他在世時已獲享上主的友誼，他的靈魂充滿超性的恩典。他少年早逝，藉天上母后的轉求，領受他孝愛之情的賞報。
12 June 1954 - 12 June 2014: 60th anniversary of the canonization of St. Dominic Savio
(ANS - RMG –Roma, 12 June 2014) – Today, 12 June 2014, marks the 60th anniversary of the canonization of St. Dominic Savio, the first fruit of holiness germinated at the Oratory of Don Bosco. To commemorate the event we quote below the words spoken on that occasion by Pope Pius XII.
"To our eyes the image of Dominic Savio appears as that of a frail teenager, weak in body, but with a soul open in total self-offering to the delicate and demanding love of Christ. At such a tender age we might expect to find good and amiable dispositions of spirit, but we are amazed to discover the marvellous inspirations of grace, and a constant adherence without reserve to the things of heaven which his faith enabled him to perceive with a rare intensity.
At the school of his spiritual master, the great saint John Bosco, he learned that joy in serving God and making Him loved by others can become a powerful means of apostolate. On 8 December 1854 he was seen lifted up in an ecstasy of love for the Virgin Mary, and shortly afterwards he joined with some of his friends in the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception, in order to advance with great strides on the path of holiness, and to avoid even the least sin.
He encouraged his companions in prayer, good behaviour, frequent reception of the Sacraments, the recitation of the Holy Rosary, and avoidance of evil and temptation. Undaunted by opposition, he intervened firmly, but charitably, to recall the wayward and perverse to return to their duty. Already in this life he enjoyed the Lord’s friendship and his soul was filled with divine gifts. At an early age he left this earth to receive, with the intercession of the Queen of heaven, the reward of his filial love."