【慈幼通訊社 ─ 2010年5月23日意大利鮑思高新堡訊】 ─ 五旬節主日，慈幼會士主教前往鮑思高崗進行短線朝聖。他們享受了一天既充實又美妙，且充滿慈幼精神的朝聖旅程，並與梵蒂岡國務卿貝爾托內樞機會面。

過千人於鮑思高崗頂的聖堂迎接貝爾托內樞機。伴隨著樞機的，有其他慈幼會士樞機、總主教、主教、總會長查偉恩神父，以及他的議會成員。出席者包括各市長及鄰近的地方政府的代表。樞機拿著賈利哀勞樞機（首位慈幼會士主教及樞機）的權杖進入聖堂，慶祝他獲擢升主教一百二十五週年紀念。

在感恩祭開始前，貝爾托內樞機宣讀了敬禮與聖事紀律部的法令，位於鮑思高崗的聖鮑思高堂，正式升格為小型聖殿。碧基是鮑思高出生，直至一歲所居住的地方，他的德行和宗徒熱忱，正是這聖殿獲予特權的因由，這聖殿也是很多青少年朝聖者的目標。

總會長曾要求，於二零一五向這聖殿頒授這項特權，這年正是要慶祝鮑思高誕辰二百週年紀念。

貝爾托內樞機在講道中，指出五旬節不單是過去的事件，因為聖神猶如一陣清風，以多種語言，傳遞「那股火熱聖言的能力宣揚耶穌苦難復活奧蹟。這是慈愛天主的信息，眾人都能知曉的，並向普世宣講。」這就是「向『天下所有民族』，無界限福傳工作的開始」的事件。

「我要問問我親愛的主教及樞機會士兄弟！為什麼主耶穌今天召叫我們來到這山上？」梵蒂岡國務卿邀請他的主教會士兄弟，深化他們當初的召叫，並以聖神的能力，從新強化他們宣揚福音工作，尤其是對青少年宣講的渴望，正如鮑思高所作的一樣。「跟隨他卓越榜樣的步伐，就是很多充滿聖德的主教、司鐸及平信徒所作的，讓我們也向聖神的風開放自己，在我們主持禮儀和執行牧職時，成為獻給教會聖潔的禮物。」當我們自豪地詠唱「聖鮑思高凱旋……」時，就是這位聖德的司鐸，這位青少年的神父，這位熱誠的宗徒，這位對教會及教宗盡忠職守的模範，與我們同在的時刻。

樞機被召叫到教宗本篤十六世身旁服務教會，令他「分擔對教會眾子女的關心，不論是以他們的聖德，榮耀教會的子女，還是以罪惡釘死教會的子女。」他論及教宗時再次說道：「他以德能治理教會，然而他對眾人的慈父心腸，充滿甜蜜與慈愛。教宗本篤十六世不倦地指出基督信仰的美妙。」他最近一次到花地瑪朝聖，見證著教宗有力地提醒教會需要皈依、祈禱和補贖。「教會在各處受迫害和反對，遇到很多困難；教會在其子女身上呈現了光明與黑暗，聖善與罪惡；充滿困擾的教會，實在需要援助，因為教會是由人所組成的，他們面對著身處社會上的各種危險與挑戰，極需要我們熱切的牧民愛德以及聖善的芳表。」

在感恩祭結束時，慈幼會總會長查偉思神父，把一封交予梵蒂岡國務卿，寫給教宗的信函宣讀出來，這信函把「鮑思高從起初便已教給我們活出他的神恩經驗，即關於對教宗及對整個教會的感情、接近以及全然的順從」

感恩祭後，在 Bernardi Semeria 學院的劇院，舉行了慈幼會士主教與貝爾托內樞機的簡短會面。「作為慈幼會士，我常帶著一份對青少年特殊的愛情，以及多年來在慈幼宗座大學、這真正富有人文及交化培育的地方任教，所累積的種種經驗與思想。」

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The Church of Don Bosco is now a Minor Basilica

 (ANS –Italy –Castelnuovo Don Bosco, 23 May 2010 ) – On Pentecost Sunday the Salesian Bishops made a short pilgrimage to Colle Don Bosco. Here among other things in a beautiful but busy day full of the Salesian spirit, they had a meeting with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State.

In the Upper Church at Colle Don Bosco over a thousand people welcomed the Cardinal Bertone. Accompanying him were other Salesian Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, the Rector Major Fr Pascual Chávez and the members of his Council. Among those present were the Mayors and representatives of the neighbouring local authorities. The Cardinal entered the church carrying the pastoral staff of Cardinal John Cagliero, the first Salesian Bishop and Cardinal whose 125 anniversary of episcopal consecration is being celebrated.

Before Mass began Cardinal Bertone read a Decree from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments by which the Church of  Don Bosco at the  Colle has been raised to the dignity of a Minor Basilica. The virtues and apostolic zeal of Don Bosco, who was born and lived his first years at the Becchi, are the reason for this privilege granted to this  large church which is the goal of many pilgrimages especially by young people.

The Rector Major had requested this privilege for the Church of  Don Bosco for  2015, the year in which the bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco will be celebrated.

Among themes touched on in his homily by Cardinal  Bertone were the fact that Pentecost is not only an event in the past, since the Holy Spirit is like a breath of wind which communicates “the power of a word of fire which proclaims the mystery of Jesus crucified and risen  in many languages. It is a message of the God Who is Love, which all can understand and is addressed to the whole world.” It is an event which “was the beginning of a work of evangelisation without limits aimed at ‘every nation under the heavens.’”

“I turn to you my dear Salesian  Confreres Bishops and Cardinals! Why has the Lord Jesus called us today to this hill?” The Secretary of State invited the Bishops, his confreres, to re-enforce their initial vocation and with the strength of the Holy Spirit to give new force to their desire to be those who proclaim the Gospel especially to the young as Don Bosco did. “Following in the footsteps of his shining example, taken up by so many holy bishops, priests and lay people, let us too open ourselves to the breath of the Holy Spirit, making a gift to the Church of our personal holiness before  that of our service and ministry. When, with pride we sing ‘Don Bosco ritorna…’ that holy priest, that spiritual father of the young,  that zealous apostle,  that example of total fidelity to the Church and to the Pope has to be us.”

The service to which he has been called at the side of  Benedict XVI, has led him “to share concern for all the children of the Church, both those who fill her with glory though their holiness and also those who crucify her through their sins.” Again, speaking about the Pope he said: “he governs with strength, but his fatherliness towards all is full of sweetness and love. Benedict XVI is tireless in pointing out the beauty of the  Christian faith.” The recent pilgrimage to Fatima bore witness to the force with which he reminded the Church of the need for  conversion, for prayer and for penance. “The difficulties of the Church, persecuted and opposed in so many places; the light and shades of a Church holy and sinful  in  her children; the anxieties of a Church in need of help because she is made up of men and women who are facing up to the dangers and the challenges of the society in which they are living, require an ardent pastoral charity and examples of holiness.”

At the end of the Mass  the Rector Major of the Salesians, Fr Pascual Chávez, read and handed to the Vatican Secretary of State a letter to the Pope in which are expressed “the affection, the closeness and the total availability which Don Bosco has taught us to live from the very beginning of his charismatic experience, with regard to the Holy Father and to the whole Church.”

Afterwards in the theatre of the ”Bernardi Semeria” Institute, there was a short meeting between the Salesian Bishops and Cardinal Bertone. “As a Salesian, I carry with me a special love for the young and all the experience and thoughts accumulated in the years of teaching at the Salesian Pontifical University a veritable human and cultural training ground.”

On ANSchannel there is a video covering the whole day.