【慈幼通訊社
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2014
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09
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29
日意大利都靈訊】
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9月28日主日，準備前往「外地傳教」的慈幼會士、母佑會修女及平信徒，齊集在都靈，與總會長范達民神父及母佑會總會長溫幗儀修母一起，參與第145批傳教士派遣禮。
在舉行彌撒前，有勉語分享的時段。派遣禮大致上跟鮑思高神父原初的構思相同。總會長在開始聚會時，憶述在聖母進教之佑大殿派遣首批傳教士的情形：1875年11月11日，鮑思高神父把福傳訓令授予將要前往阿根廷傳播福音及照顧青年的十名年輕慈幼會士。鮑思高神父生前共派遣了153名傳教士，見證著會祖對普世教會所需，抱著慷慨大方的態度。
范達民神父在講道中，指出三個由主日讀經所帶出的核心思想。他邀
請一眾傳教士「成為天主面前的義人」，不因所領受的恩賜而感到優越。他促請他們作「沒有特權的僕人」，服務傳教地區的青年及人民，效法鮑思高神父的榜樣，為青年呼出最後一口氣。最後，他提醒在場的每一人，領洗並祝聖成為傳教士的意義，是為「滿全天父的旨意」，在兄弟般友愛中工作，並與在傳教過中，所遇到的每位牧者及教育者保持深切共融。
145th Missionary Expedition: "to be upright before God, serve the underprivileged and always do the will of the Father"
(ANS - Italy –Turin, 29 September 2014) – The Salesians, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) and lay volunteers leaving for the "missio ad gentes" gathered in Turin on Sunday 28 September with the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, and Mother Yvonne Reungoat, Mother General of the FMA, for the 145th Missionary Expedition.
Before the Mass there was time to share a word of encouragement. This event is very much in keeping with the original desire of Don Bosco. The Rector Major opened the meeting by recalling the first of the 145 missionary expeditions that have taken place in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians: that day, 11 November 1875, Don Bosco gave the mandate to ten young Salesians to go to Argentina to evangelize and take care of the young. In the expeditions that followed during Don Bosco’s lifetime, a total of 153 missionaries departed, testimony to the founder’s great openness to the needs of the universal Church.
In his homily Fr Ángel pointed to three core ideas, inspired by the Sunday liturgy. He invited the missionaries to be "upright before God", free of any attitude of superiority due to the gift we have received. He urged them to be "servants without privileges" of young people and of the people to whom they are sent, after the example of Don Bosco, who gave of himself to his last breath for the young,. Finally, he reminded everyone that the meaning of our being missionaries who are baptized and consecrated is "to fulfil the will of God," working fraternally and in profound communion with the pastors and educators they will meet in the course of their mission.