計劃理念 – SPIRIT OF THE PROJECT

「好土地」家庭耕種計劃旨在促進家庭成員的屬靈成長，並透過農耕工作參與主的奇妙化工，藉以歌頌讚美天主。這計劃的理念源自非常熱愛大自然的聖方濟·亞西西。他認為所有受造物都是天主賜給他的兄弟姊妹。在他的《造物讚》中，聖人寫道：「我主，願祢藉著我們的姊妹，大地母親而受讚頌，她出產各種的果實與色彩繽紛的花草，養活和治理我們。」

農耕工作可以是來自天主的召叫嗎？聖若望二十三世相信如此。他在《慈母與導師》通諭中寫道：「在農場工作中，人格找到了自我表達、自我發展和屬靈成長的一切動力。因此，這項工作應被視為一種聖召，一項天主賦予的使命，是回應天主召叫人在歷史上承行其拯救計劃的旨意。最後，它應該被視為一項崇高的任務，旨在將自己和他人提升到更高的文明程度。」

The “Good Soil” Family Farming Project aims at promoting spiritual growth and give praise to God in cooperating with His work of creation through farming among families. The spirit behind this undertaking is the spirit of Saint Francis, who, being a great lover of nature, considered all created things as brothers and sisters that God gave him. In his Canticle of the Creatures he wrote: “Be praised, my Lord, through our sister Mother Earth, who feeds us and rules us, and produces various fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.”

Can farming be a vocation from God? Saint John XXIII believed so. In his Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra he wrote: “In the work on the farm the human personality finds every incentive for self-expression, self-development and spiritual growth. It is a work, therefore, which should be thought of as a vocation, a God-given mission, an answer to God’s call to actuate His providential, saving plan in history. It should be thought of, finally, as a noble task, undertaken with a view to raising oneself and others to a higher degree of civilization.”

目標 – GOALS

• 讓堂區及天主教學校家庭走在一起，促進家庭彼此間的認識、支持和合作。
• 讓父母和孩子透過共同參與農耕工作去培育親子之間的共融。
• 透過農耕工作去豐富兒童和青少年的人生經歷，藉以推廣及發展他們恆常關顧土地的人文及基督徒習慣和價值觀。
• To foster mutual knowledge, support and cooperation among parish and school families.
• To cultivate communion between parents and children, as they work in a joint adventure.
• To enrich the education of children and youth through farming, promoting the development of human and Christian habits and values which are normally associated with the working of the land.