【慈幼通訊社
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2016 年
07月
07
日羅馬慈幼總部訊】
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總會長范達民神父，宣佈了2017贈言的標題及訊息指引：「我們是一家！每個家庭都是學習生命與愛的場所。」作為總部議會工作的一部份。
這一年，總會長配合教宗及整個教會的路向，旨在反省家庭的主旨。「我們是一家」，帶出了贈言2017：家庭是生命的所在，是學習生命與愛的場所。
2017贈言所揀選的主旨，是為配合慈幼家庭議會的訴求，他們一致要求進行有關家庭主題的闡釋、探討家庭在新世代所面對的挑戰，以回應兩次主教會議及教宗方濟各《愛的喜樂》宗座勸諭的反省。
贈言2017並不視為一則沒有討論餘地的反省內容，卻旨在提出一些要點，讓慈幼家庭成員，繼續在他們相關的背景中，發掘這個主題。
總會長建構了一個慈幼化的標題，選取了宗座勸諭的主題，進而根據慈幼青年牧民參照架構，對反省內容作出建議。
贈言簡介已指示出一些會在2017贈言全文所帶出的承諾：首先是在慈幼世界的家庭中實踐；接著就是實踐「慈幼家庭根據鮑思高預防教育法：讓普世成一家，猶如一大群好友，一起探索生命，與主相遇。」
贈言 2017 簡介已刊載於慈幼會網頁 sdb.org。
Strenna 2017: WE ARE A FAMILY!
(ANS - RMG –Roma, 07 July 2016) – As part of the work of the General Council, the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, had given the title and the guidelines for the message of the Strenna 2017: "WE ARE A FAMILY! Every home, a school of Life and Love".
This year the Rector Major, in line with the Pope and the whole Church, aims to reflect on the theme of the family. "We are a Family", is the statement that opens the Strenna 2017: the family as a place of life, the family as a school of Life and Love.
The choice of the theme of the Strenna of 2017 is the result of a request coming from the Council of the Salesian Family, which unanimously asked to elaborate on the topic of the family, looking to the challenges it faces in the new trends, to the reflections of the two Synods and on the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope "Amoris Laetitia".
The Strenna of 2017 does not claim to be a reflection that closes the discussion, but rather intends to propose important highlights that allow members of the Salesian Family to further develop the theme in their respective contexts.
The Rector Major makes a Salesian reading of the theme, takes up the main titles of the Pope's Exhortation and then suggests the reflection lines, based on the Frame of Reference for Youth Ministry.
The presentation will already indicate the commitments that would emerge from the Strenna of 2017: in the first place within the families related to the Salesian context; and then in the mission of the "Salesian Family in the light of the Preventive System of Don Bosco: making of the world a home, like a big family playground of friends, of apprenticeship of life, of encounter with God."
The full text of the presentation of the Strenna 2017 is available on the sdb.org website.