【慈幼通訊社 ─ 2012 年 8 月 2 日羅馬慈幼總部訊】 ─ 在八月五日這個母佑會重大日子來臨之際，慈幼通訊社訪問了母佑會總會長溫幗儀修母，探討有關這個鮑思高神父所創立，作為進教之佑「活紀念」的修會，以及她作為總會長的角色。今天我們刊出訪問的第一部份。

ANS：你們剛進行過檢討。那麼母佑會現況如何？將來會面對什麼挑戰？

目前，尚有兩個跨會省區際組織，還未進行有關第22屆全會代表大會的檢討，而檢討將包括有關會省的經驗及反省方面。然而，就我所作探訪得出的結果來看，我認為修會狀況是穩健的。我們一眾修女，都熱切渴望並致力活出我們的神恩。她們感到需要深化自身的靈修，並加強她們建基於奧蹟的先知信息。作為母佑會團體及教育團體，她們亦已察覺需要著重她們關係中的福傳本質。與平信徒同行之旅越見明顯，不獨在共同工作的層面，更在於共同承擔教育使命的層面上。她們亦更致力於在日益貧困的世界，提供一個全新的向貧苦者優先服務的選擇；並明認建立真正聖召團體的重要性，使青年感受到我們的關心與聆聽，並使她們清楚看到我們神恩的美善與動力。

總括來說：修會之路大抵處於「已開始」及「未完成」之間。然而我認為一切挑戰中最大的，是望德的挑戰。

ANS：母佑會已創立140年，期間修會的身分及使命有什麼改變？

修會生命達到140年時刻，對整個慈幼大家庭來說都是十分重要的。對我們母佑會修女來說，這表示要懷著喜樂與感恩之心，為天主的忠信及我們對祂大愛的回應予以慶祝。鮑思高神父一心願意給予跟隨他的女子一個機會，如同男子一樣，這有摩爾尼斯聖母孝女會的一些女青年，回應並履行他的建議，跟隨慈幼會精神獻身事主。1872年8月5日，蒙弗辣道這個小鎮，仿如種子撒在肥沃土地，孕育成長，使修會茁壯起來。母佑會的身分從起初便非常明確：就是熱切懷著瑪利亞身分的女子，透過教育獻身福傳使命。鮑思高神父提供了強而有力的見證，而聖女瑪莎利羅對他的生命計劃及預防教育法，完全感受到一份和諧。修會發展迅速，現時有約1萬4千名會士，她們的足跡及事業，已遍及世界五大洲中94個國家。成功的秘密在於聖神的推動力，賜予我們修會家庭福傳的幅度及普世的面貌。這身分日益豐富起來，而我們現今的教育使命，透過新疆界及新領域，到達青少年中，喚起他們一份對生命意義的追求，並培育他們成為良好的基督徒及忠實的市民，正如鮑思高神父所願意的。母佑會自起初便全心投入這個計劃中，如今她們更將之聯繫於推動人的基本權利，以及致力於福傳事業上。

Interview with Mother Reungoat 1/2:

the state of health of the FMA and prospects for the future

(ANS - RMG –Rome, 2 August 2012) – Just before 5th August, a very significant date for the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA), ANS has put some questions to their Superior General, Mother Yvonne Reungoat, about the Religious Institute which Don Bosco held to be a ‘living monument’ to Mary Help of Christians and about her role as Superior. Today we give the first part of the interview.

You have just carried out an Evaluation. What is the state of health of the FMA Institute? What challenges face it in the future?

At the moment there are two groups of inter-provincial Conferences which have yet to carry out their Evaluation of GCXXII, where the experiences and reflections of their Provinces will flow together. However, I think I can say, thanks to what I have also found out in my visitations, that the Institute is in good shape. The desire and commitment to revive our charism is alive and well in all the sisters. They feel the need to deepen their personal spirituality and to strengthen their prophetic message, basing it on its mystical roots. They have also noticed the need to focus on the evangelical nature of their relationships as FMA communities and as educating communities. The journey with lay people is becoming more apparent not only at the level of working together, but also in co-responsibility for the educational mission. They have become more committed to a renewed option for the poor, in a world becoming more and more impoverished, and they recognise the importance of building communities which are truly vocational, where young people feel welcomed and listened to and where they can clearly see the beauty and the energy of our charism.
To sum up: the journey of the Institute is somewhere between the ‘already’ and the ‘not yet’. However I think that the greatest challenge, embracing all the others, is that of hope.

The FMA Institute is celebrating 140 years of existence. What changes have there been in its identity and mission?

140 years of the Institute’s life is an important occasion for the entire Salesian Family. For us FMA it means the celebration of God’s fidelity and of our response to his love, a reason for joy and thankfulness. Don Bosco’s idea of giving girls the same opportunities that he was offering to his boys was realised thanks to the response of some young women in the Association of Mary Immaculate in Mornese who took up his suggestion of consecrating themselves to the Lord as religious following the Salesian spirit.In that little place in Monferrato, just as from a seed cultivated in good and fertile land, sprang forth the Institute; it was 5th August 1872. The FMA identity was clear from the start: women consecrated for the mission of evangelising through education, with a strong Marian identity. Don Bosco provided a powerful witness and Maria Domenica Mazzarello felt totally in harmony with his project of life and his method of education, the Preventive System. The Institute grew in a remarkable way and expanded to a presence which now reaches 94 nations in the world and numbers about 14,000 members who live and work in all five continents. The secret is in the energy of the Spirit which has given our religious Family a missionary dimension and a universal appearance. This identity has become richer over the years and our educational mission today embraces new frontiers, new fields to meet young people and reawaken in them a search for meaning, bringing them up to be good Christians and honest citizens, as Don Bosco wanted them to be. This programme has been taken up wholeheartedly by the FMA since their beginnings and today it is more and more linked to promotion of their fundamental rights and  commitment to their evangelisation.