【慈幼通訊社
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2016 年
06月
13
日意大利蒙庫科都靈內塞訊】
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超過五百名來自阿斯蒂省及都靈地區的居民，前來參與一項大型公眾活動。6月12日主日，在蒙庫科都靈內塞近莫利約村莊的地方，為復修後的莫利約農莊，舉行了揭幕典禮。這農莊是鮑思高青少年時代，接受培育及孕育聖召的重要地方，農莊在「鮑思高2000」協會努力下重獲新生。
小鮑思高自1827年2月至1829年11月，在莫利約農莊生活及工作，服侍莫利約這個小康農戶。他到這裡生活，是因為哥哥安道要在田間工作，看到鮑思高卻在讀書而感到不耐煩。母親麗達於是同意鮑思高離開家庭，以免在兒子間產生更嚴重的問題。
鮑思高在農莊的工作並非過於粗重，也不是受很大的羞恥；事實上當時不少與他年齡相近的男孩，也會面對著同樣的遭遇。然而鮑思高因為工作關係，在這段日子，學業停滯不前。可是，他卻認為這是他童年中最美好的一段日子之一。他在那裡以聖經中最令人驚奇的篇章，向他的朋友傳福音，並以玩把戲來娛樂他們。基本上他當了三年「看牛郎」；然而他也開始與天主交談。
因此，「鮑思高2000」協會認為復修這座農莊，是重要的工作。農莊在數年前，仍是十分殘破，因此需要回復原狀，展現鮑思高生平中一個重要的小片段。2011年，協會買下農莊，並於2012年展開「保育」復修計劃，旨在盡量恢復原狀。6月12日舉行揭幕禮，由華道角慶禮院負責人Gianni Moriondo神父主持大禮彌撒，並由來自Chivasso的樂隊演奏，以增加氣氛，還有遊戲及表演。
目前，莫利約農莊包括一個小型博物館，讓訪客認識鮑思高在當地的三年生活；一個寬敞的遊樂大廳，讓小孩及青年進行遊戲活動；一個接待的地方，為到當地的小團體作斂神祈禱的用途。
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“Cascina Moglia” (Moglia Farmhouse) comes back to Life
(ANS - Italy –Moncucco Torinese, 13 June 2016) – It was a great popular feast, with over 500 participants coming from the various houses of the zone of Asti and of Turin. It was like seeing Don Bosco again with his children, yesterday, Sunday, June 12th, in Moncucco Torinese, where, close to the Moglia hamlet, there was the inauguration of the restored “Cascina Moglia”, an important and significant place in the formative and vocational journey of young Giovanni Bosco, brought to new life by the association “Don Bosco 2000”.
At “Cascina Moglia” little Giovanni Bosco lived and worked as a boy from February 1827 to November 1829, at the service of the Moglias, a well-off family of farmers. He had gone there because of his brother Antonio’s impatience at seeing him study, when he himself had to work in the fields. Mother Margherita agreed to let him go, so as to avoid more serious problems among her children.
The service of Giovanni Bosco at the farmhouse was not excessively heavy or humiliating; it was actually the lot that faced many boys his age in those days. But because of his work, Giovanni Bosco could not make much progress in his studies in those years. And yet Don Bosco defined that period as one of the most beautiful of his youth. There he started evangelizing his friends with the most adventurous pages of the Bible and entertaining them with his conjuring tricks. Basically for three years he was a “cowherd”; but he also started to talk with God.
Because of this, the association “Don Bosco 2000” deemed it fundamental to restore the farmhouse, which till a few years ago was in a very poor state, and thus return to the story of Don Bosco a small fundamental piece. In 2011 the association purchased the farmhouse, in 2012 the “preserving” restoration project was started, with the aim of keeping as far as possible its original aspect, and yesterday, June 12th, there was the inauguration with the solemn mass, presided over by Fr. Gianni Moriondo, Director of the Oratory of Valdocco, with the animation of the music Band of Chivasso, with games and performances.
Now the “Cascina Moglia” comprises a small museum, which enables visitors to know the life Don Bosco lived there for about three years, a vast game hall for children and young people, and a reception area to host small groups that go there for recollection.