给慈幼会士们的牧民建议
这赠言是一个机会,为给予修会一些特别在今年要实行的牧民建议,以延续及发展
2004
年的赠言及其牧民建议。我们对家庭的承诺完全回应了会宪:「我们……
也注意家庭,在家中长幼相处,人类的将来也正由此建设。」(宪
29)
确保我们透过教育、福传途径和其它原素来关注家庭。我们需要:
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在对青年的慈幼会教育及信仰培育中,保证特别承诺对为他们进行爱的教育。
第二十三届全会代表大会
(GC 23)
把爱的教育表达成信仰影响生活或其它看似不相关的项目上的其中一个重点。鲍思高神父的独特经验,以及预防教育法的教育、灵修内容为我们指出:
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特别着重为青年制造一个浓厚的教育环境,以促进沟通及情感的交流,
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宣扬洁德的真正价值,
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鼓励男女青年之间自我及互相尊重的、无私的、喜悦的和共同成长的关系,
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在教育环境下,必须展示那些为坦率的、喜悦的爱所作的见证,尤其是那些透过纯洁的自我奉献所作的见证。
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在家长的教育责任上,我们支持他们,并与他们同行,邀请他们完整地实践慈幼牧民及教育计划。
第二十四届全会代表大会
(GC 24)
提出了在俗人士对慈幼会使命的参与,认定了家长及家庭在我们工作里的角色,也要求我们强化与家庭的合作,因为家庭是孩子的第一个教育园地
(the first educator for children)。(参阅
GC 24:20, 177)
为此,它建议我们重视家长与家庭对年青人不可替代的建树……
透过设立委员会及机构,使我们能凭借他们的参与而保证及提升鲍思高神父的教育使命得以实践。
(参阅
GC 24:115)
透过基督徒的见证、对孩子的信仰培育上所作的努力,以及为建设基督徒团体所作的贡献,基督徒家庭亦是一个很重要的福传媒介。
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培育及鼓励人们把慈幼大家庭的风格带进自己的家庭、慈幼会团体,以及教育和牧民团体中。
慈幼家庭精神是我们灵修的其中一项特色
(参阅
GC 24:91-93),而透过以下途径表达:
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无条件地聆听,
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热切的接待别人,
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教育者充满活力地临在于青年中,
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人与人、团体与团体间的对话和沟通,
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透过共同参与教育方案来共责任……
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透过在青年中履行教育和牧民服务,增强慈幼大家庭的经验及精神。慈幼大家庭尤其要求我们集中行动,为每个青年人提供圣召的建议和陪同
(参阅
GC 25:41, 48),并透过以下途径实践:
一些建议
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为青年人预备一个渐进式及有系统的培育计划,教导他们去爱,好使他们能够:
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理解性爱的基督信仰及人性的价值
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成熟男女间的积极及正面的关系
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以人性尊严、生命的价值,及福音的标准来回答众多当代有关生命与人类性爱的问题。
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以开放的态度来面对天主的计划,在他们的生活中实践爱的召叫。
为慈幼青年运动内的团体及组织提供培育课程,或与个别青年人同行时,应特别关注这方面。
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向我们所及范围之内的年轻人
(领袖、义工、同工、青年人)
推行关于婚姻圣召的具体培育课程、同行和辨别。同时,我们亦鼓励慈幼大家庭内的已婚夫妇共同合作。
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鼓励在我们的事业内推行夫妇及家庭小组等,帮助他们更深入地了解及活出婚姻圣召及教育责任。
在慈幼大家庭内有
“Don Bosco Families”, “Hogares Don Bosco”
等组织,由慈幼协进会支持及推动着;另外,亦有其它的家庭机构,好像
“The Christian Family Movement”,”Marriage
Encounter”
等等。
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透过具体的、有系统的培育及分享教育议题,在家长联会和学生家长中,支持他们实践教育责任。
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在慈幼会临在的地方,在教育牧民团体内,特别关注家庭气氛和人际关系,有规划地渗入及分享慈幼会价值观及牧民教育计划的目标。这样,慈幼会便会成为青年人的家,也能支持所有家庭。
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透过父母与子女的接触,以及家庭教理讲授等行动,使家庭参与我们在青年中提供及推进的教育福传旅程。使家长参与慈幼青年运动、庆典和其它小组活动,并以基督徒家庭团体作为这个信仰旅程的基点。
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鼓励及装备在俗人士,并与他们同行,让他们在法律及环境冲击着他们的情况下,使他们在社会中促进及捍卫家庭的权利。
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在不同地域的组别中,透过认识及分享《共同身分证,
Common Identity Card》、《共同使命宣言, Common Mission Statement》和实行不同层面的慈幼大家庭咨议会,加强了解身为慈幼大家庭的一份子的归属感。
PASTORAL PROPOSAL FOR SALESIANS
The 2006 Strenna is an opportunity to offer the Congregation some pastoral
suggestions to be carried out this year especially, in continuity with and
as a particular way of developing, the Pastoral Proposal which accompanied
the 2004 Strenna. Our commitment to family is in perfect harmony with our
own Constitutions, which say: “We also give our attention…. to the family,
where different generations come together and build the future of mankind.”
(C. 29).
Ensuring that special attention be given to the family through what we offer
by way of education and evangelisation we need, as well as other things, to:
- Guarantee a particular commitment to educating to love in the context of
Salesian education and in the faith education curricula which we offer young
people.
GC23 presented education to love as one of the crucial points for showing
where faith impinges on life or where in practical terms it seems
irrelevant. Don Bosco’s typical experience and the spiritual and educational
content of the Preventive System direct us to:
· give
special importance to the task of creating around young people a rich
educational environment for communication and affective exchanges,
·
appreciate the authentic values of chastity,
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encourage relationships between boys and girls which show respect for self
and for others, in mutual enrichment, in joyful, free self-giving,
· ensure
the presence of a transparent and happy witness of love in the educational
environment, especially by means of chaste self-giving.
- Accompany and support parents in their educative responsibilities,
involving them fully in carrying out the Salesian pastoral and educative
project.
GC24, speaking of involving lay people in the Salesian mission, recognised
the role of parents and families in our works, but requested us to intensify
our collaboration with the family, inasmuch as the family is the first
educator for children. (Cf. GC24, 20. 177). For this reason it proposed that
we value the irreplaceable contribution of parents and families of the
young… by setting up committees and associations able to guarantee and
enhance Don Bosco’s educational mission through their participation in it
(Cf. GC24, 115). The Christian family is also a most important agent of
evangelisation, through its Christian witness, its commitment to education
to faith of the children, and through its contribution to building up
Christian community.
- Encourage and prepare people in the Salesian Family Style in their own
family, in the Salesian community, in the educative and pastoral community.
This Salesian family spirit is one of the characteristics of our
spirituality (cf. GC24, 91-93) and is expressed through:
·
listening to others unconditionally,
· making
people freely welcome,
· the
animating presence of the educator amongst the young,
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dialogue, interpersonal and institutional communication,
· shared
responsibility centred on a shared educational project…
- Grow in the spirit and experience of the Salesian Family at the service of
our educational and pastoral engagement with and among the young. The
Salesian Family especially demands of us a commitment to convergent action
in offering a vocational proposal as well as an appropriate and exacting
accompaniment to each young person (cf. GC25, 41 and 48), by means of:
· a
well-functioning Salesian Family Advisory Council,
· the
involvement of young people in this Council,
·
initiatives and activities which help us to work more and more as an
apostolic spiritual family.
Some suggestions
· In the formation plan for young people, prepare a gradual
and systematic curriculum of education to love, which helps adolescents and
young people to:
- grasp the Christian and human value of sexuality,
- mature as boys and girls in positive and open relationships,
- confront the various contemporary questions about life and human sexuality
with the values of the dignity of the human person, life and the Gospel’s
criteria.
- be open to God’s plan as a practical way of living out their vocation to
love.
We ought give special importance to this aspect in formation courses offered
to groups and associations which are part of the Salesian Youth Movement and
in personal accompaniment of young people.
· Promote practical formation courses, accompaniment and vocational
discernment regarding Christian marriage amongst young adults in our
settings (leaders, volunteers, co-workers, young people…). We seek to
encourage the collaboration of married couples who are members of the
Salesian Family.
· Encourage groups, movements and associations of couples and families
within our settings, which help them to live and to gain deeper
understanding of their vocation to marriage and their educational
responsibilities.
In the Salesian Family there are “Don Bosco Families”, “Hogares Don Bosco”
groups, encouraged and animated by Salesian Cooperators; but there are also
some other family associations like “The Christian Family Movement”,
“Marriage Encounter”, etc.
· Support parents of boys and girls in our settings in their educational
responsibility, by means of parents associations, school for parents, etc.
with a practical and systematic formation and sharing on educational topics.
· Strengthen, in each Salesian presence, the educative and pastoral
community, giving particular attention to a family atmosphere, to the most
regular participation possible and to sharing the Salesian values and aims
of the educative and pastoral plan. In this way a Salesian presence becomes
a home for the young and a support for those families involved.
· Involve families in the journey of education and evangelisation which we
offer and animate amongst the young, by means of initiatives like
parent-son/daughter encounters, family catechesis; involve parents in
leadership of SYM groups, celebrations and other meetings together, and
Christian family communities as a reference point for the journey of faith
which we offer to young people, etc.
· Encourage, prepare and accompanying our lay people to promote and defend
the rights of the family in society, in the face of laws and situations
which seek to destroy them.
· Deepen understanding of the sense of being Salesian Family amongst the
different groups in the same geographical area by making known and by
sharing the “Common Identity Card” and the “Common Mission Statement” and by
putting in place the “SF Advisory Council” at various levels. |