美国：玛利诺会佳真妮修女荣获“利玛窦奖”

  （2017年8月12日，美中天主教交流协会为表扬佳真妮修女的多年奉献，授予这位玛利诺会修女利玛窦奖。这是当时美中天主教交流协会理事会主席多默•麦奎尔的讲话。为纪念佳真妮修女，我们在此发表这篇讲话中译，以纪念这位热爱中国教会和中国的修女。——编者按）

美中天主教交流协会理事会主席多默•麦奎尔

授予玛利诺会佳真妮修女利玛窦奖上的讲话

2017年8月12日

      今晚，我们共聚一堂来授予佳真妮修女利玛窦奖。这一奖项反映了十六世纪到中国去传教的耶稣会士利玛窦神父的传教方式——尤其是他在《交友论》中所谈及的方式——是跨文化的一个伟大成就。在《交友论》的第十六段，利玛窦神父写道：

每个人都不能彻底完成全部任务，

为此，高天的上主命令我们建立友谊；

以便我们能彼此相助。

若从世上铲除了这一方法，

那无疑，人类将分崩离析直至灭亡。 

      以六十五年生涯专注于成为传教士门徒的佳修女已亲自展示了这一段话的真实含意。她花时间给予培育、精深研究、在台湾行使牧职；她还代表梵蒂冈服务于联合国，为此服务，她还荣获了教宗荣誉奖：Pro Ecclesia et Pontificemedal。至今，她还继续以一位活跃的玛利诺传教士门徒的身份与中国朋友们接洽。 

      她全部传教工作的特点就是努力把她与耶稣基督的相遇和友谊，与她对人类事务的认知整合在一起。她是一位祈祷的修女，一位默观的修女，一位工作的修女；她意识到，友谊能使人类“彼此相助”。

      我还赞赏她所展示的友谊的另一面向，那是利玛窦神父在《交友论》的第82段所提及的：

      “阿谀奉承的朋友并非朋友，他只是剽窃和篡夺了“朋友”这名字的一个小偷。”

      佳修女领会利玛窦神父所说的这话，她也就在自己与他人所建立的友谊中展现出来。

      河北献县圣望会的戎利纳修女谈到了当今中国教会的需要，她写道：

      “我认为，在我们时代，我们需要有人能超越自我，在那些有着不同信仰传统、不同生活道路、不同政治观点的人们中间去建立桥梁；去放下一个人建立在某种“信条”和“真理”上的安全感；去承认自己的视野是有限的；这样，就能去聆听和欣赏他人。即使我们在各方面都存有差异，但我们仍能和平相处。”

      佳修女鼓励人们，并亲自致力于通过多种途径来帮助人们在不同信仰传统、不同生活方式的人们中间建立桥梁。她一直努力寻找在全体人们之间——尤其在中国教会与美国教会的信徒之间——和平相处的各种方法。

      今晚，我们要表彰佳修女忠于自己传教士门徒的身份所做的一切工作；尤其我们要表彰她的先知性视野，正是这视野引导她和大量来自天主教其他修会团体的朋友们，怀着在中国传教的历史性使命，创立了美中天主教协会。她熟知中文、中国文化与历史，再加上她所接受的有关国际关系的教育，从而使美中天主教协会充满了活力；该协会提供了强而有力的创举，并提供多种项目让美国人了解中国；该协会还在中国教会与美国教会的信徒之间建立起了友谊的桥梁。她的视野还包括普世性的外展服务，与许多其他的基督教派的信徒建立友谊。她像利玛窦神父一样，是一位传教士，满怀热情地建立友谊和桥梁，以使中国教会与美国教会的信徒之间能进行跨文化的交流、分享。

      让我们向这位非凡的、充满信德和传教热情的修女表达我们深深的敬意和持续不断的感激。

    

    请授奖!

    谢谢大家!

    愿天主降福你们！

英文原文：

Award to Sister Janet Carroll MM August 12, 2017

Tom McGuire, USCCB Chair

We are here tonight to award Sister Janet Carroll, a Maryknoll Sister, the Matteo Ricci Award. This award reflects the way of Matteo Ricci, S.J.- Missionary to China in the 16th Century, especially his treatise On Friendship-  a great intercultural achievement. In passage 16 of On Friendship, Ricci writes:

               “Each person cannot fully complete every task,

for which reason the Lord on High commanded

that there be friendship

in order that we might render aid to one another.

If this Way were eradicated from the world,

humankind would surely disintegrate into ruin.”

     Sr.Janet Carroll, a missionary disciple for 65 years, has exemplified the meaning of this passage. She spent time in formation, doing graduate studies, mission ministry  in Taiwan, and  represented the Vatican at the United Nations. For this  service she was awarded the papal honor: Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal. She continues today to be an active Maryknoll missionary disciple engaged with Chinese friends. 

     Characteristic of all her mission work is the effort to integrate her encounter and friendship with Jesus Christ with her knowledge of human affairs. She is a woman of prayer and contemplation and work,  recognizing that friendship enables human beings to “render aid to one another”. 

     I appreciate another aspect of her friendship, mentioned in passage 82 of On Friendship by Matteo Ricci:

    The friend who flatters is no friend, but merely a thief who steals that name and usurps it. Sister Janet tells it as she sees it. 

     Sister Lina RONG, a Missionary of Holy Hope, of Xian Xian Diocese in  Hebei Province, speaking of the needs of the Catholic Church in China today, wrote:

    "I think in our time, we need people who can go beyond themselves,to build bridges among people with different faith traditions,different ways of life, different opinions on political issues,to let go one's sense of security in a certain "belief" and "truth,”to admit that my view is limited; then to listen and to appreciate the other.We can live in peace even (if) we are different in every way.”

    Sister Janet has encouraged and worked to set up ways to help people build bridges among people of different faith traditions and ways of life. She has sought to make ways of living in peace among all people, but especially people of the Church in China and the Church in the United States. 

     Tonight we award Sister Janet for all of her faithful work as a missionary disciple; but especially her prophetic vision that guided her and friends, from a number of other Catholic religious communities, with historic missions in China, to found the U. S.  Catholic China Her knowledge of Chinese language, culture and history joined with her education in international relations created a dynamic USCCB, which has provided strong initiatives and programs for educating people in the United States and building bridges of friendship between people in the Church in China and in the United States. Her vision included ecumenical outreach and friendships with those of many other Christian denominations. She is a missionary, like Matteo Ricci, with a passion for friendship and the building of bridges that allow for intercultural sharing between the people of the Church in China and the Church in the United States. 

 

Let us express our deep appreciation and on-going gratitude to this remarkable woman of faith and missionary zeal.

PRESENT AWARD

THANK YOU 

BLESSING

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可敬的佳修女，我们爱你