【慈幼通訊社
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2016 年
12月
24 日羅馬慈幼總部訊】
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鮑思高慈幼會總會長范達民神父，向慈幼大家庭送上2016聖誕訊息。「親愛的慈幼會士兄弟，我誠心問候你們，祝你們聖誕新年快樂。」在致候辭之後，總會長邀請我們所有人，以嶄新的方式活出聖誕。我們知道天主超凡而神妙地愛了我們：「祂尋找一個家庭，讓聖子有人情味。」
「我的聖誕訊息，就是要我們繼續在人性中成長……在成長中，讓心靈越人情練達。我邀請你們，勉力向需要我們幫助的人，展現我們的共融友愛。」
總會長堅持我們要具體地祈禱：「我請你們特別為世界和平祈禱。我們都知道敘利亞持續發生的慘劇。我請你們在這平安夜，為二十七個就算在今天仍有戰事發生的戰區祈禱。我邀請你們，繼續為這位至今仍杳無音訊的多默神父祈禱。」
「以直接關懷別人需要的方式活出聖誕，代表我們知道並且相信，我們有一位「活在我們之內的天主。當天主在我們心中，我們就會在通情達理中成長。」
Video message of the Rector Major for Christmas 2016
(ANS - RMG –Roma, 24 December 2016) – Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco, has delivered the 2016 Christmas message to the Salesian Family. “My dearest Salesian confreres I sincerely desire to greet you and wish you wholeheartedly a very happy Christmas and a happy new year”. After these words of greetings, Fr Ángel invites all of us to live Christmas in a renewed manner. We know that God loves us in an extrahordinary and wonderful way: “He has sought a family to make his Son human”.
“My message in this Christmas is that we keep growing in humanity… Keep growing with a heart more and more human. I invite you to do all your possible best in order to show our communion and fraternity towards those who are in need of us”.
The Rector Major insist that our prayer too will be very concrete: “I would like to ask you a special commitment in prayer for the peace in the world. We are all aware of the ongoing tragedy in Syria. I ask you to pray for the 27 war zones where in this very day, Christmas vigil, fighting is going on. I invite you as well to keep praying for our Salesian confrere Fr Tom, still missing”.
To live Christmas with our full attention directed towards others is to know and believe that we have a God who “dwells within us. When God in in our heart we are growing in humanity”.