Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
FAAMATALAGA I LE A.A.
Alcoholics Anonymous o le mafutaga a alii ma tamaitai o loo fefaasoaai o latou silafia, malosiaga ma faamoemoega ma isi tagata ina ia foia ai lenei faafitauli taatele ma toe faafoisia ai le malosi ma le ava malosi. Pau lava le aiaiga mo le avea ma sui auai o lou finagalo lea ia tuu le taumafa ava. E leai se totogi mo le avea ma sui auai, matou te tagiilima lava e ala i nai o matou sao tupe. E le faipaaga le A.A. ma isi tamai lala, aulotu, polokiki, faalapotopotoga, e leai se faamoemoe e asosi atu i nisi o vevesi o le talia poo le le talia o soo se ituaiga mafuaaga. O le matou faamoemoe autu ia tumau i le le toe taumafa ava ma fesoasoani i nisi ia ausia lea tulaga.
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1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
6. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
Tu ma Aga e 12
The 12 Traditions
1. E fa’amuamua lo tatou manuia lautele, e fa’alagolago le manuia o le
tagata to’atasi i le lotogatasi o le to’atele. ( AA Unity )
Our common welfare should come first, personal recovery depends on AA unity.
2. Mo le tatou fa’amoemoe lautele, e tasi lava le Pule Sili - o le
Atua alofa na te faailoa mai lona finagalo i le tatou lotogatasi
faalemafutaga . O tatou ta’ita’i, o ni auauna fa’atuatuaina, latou te
le pulea le toatele.
For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving
God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are
but trusted servants, they do not govern.
3. E tasi lava le aiaiga ole avea ai ma sui auai ole AA, o le
naunauta’i e taofi ona taumafa le ava malosi.
The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.
4. E tatau ona tuto’atasi lala ta’itasi, se’i vagana ai mataupu e
a’afia ai isi lala le po’o le fa’alapotopotoga a le A.A. atoa.
Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other
groups or AA as a whole.
5. E tasi lava le fa'amoemoega autu o lala ta'itasi - o le momoli o
lana fe'au i tagata o aafia e le ava malosi.
Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry it’s message to the
alcoholic who still suffers.
6. E le tatau e se lala ona lagolagoina, fa'atupeina, pe fa’aaogaina
le igoa ole AA i se fa’alapotopotoga, pisinisi i fafo atu; ne'i avea
fa’afitauli mai tupe, meatotino ma le mamalu, e liliu ese ai i tatou
mai lo tatou fa'amoemoega autu.
An AA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the AA name to any
related facility or outside enterprise; lest problems of money,
property or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. E tatau ona fa’alagolago lala ta’itasi i le latou lava lima foa’i,
tete’eina ai fesoasoani mai fafo.
Each group ought to be fully self-sufficient, declining outside contributions.
8. E tatau ona tumau pea e faavavau ona fa’atino galuega masani a le
AA e aunoa ma se totogi, ae e ono fa'afaigaluegaina ni tagata
fa'apitoa e lagolago le lautele i ofisa tutotonu.
AA should be forever non professional, but our centers may employ
special workers.
9. E le tatau lava ona fa’atulagaina maopopo le AA; ae e mafai ona
tatou faia ni komiti o auaunaga, e nafa taulima i le tautuaina o le
lautele.
AA as such ought never be organized, but we may create service boards
or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. E le leai se manatu aia ole AA i mataupu i fafo; o le mea lea e le
tatau ai lava ona toso le igoa ole AA i feeseeseaiga lautele.
AA has no opinions on outside issues, hence the AA name ought never be
drawn into public controversies.
11. O le faavae o le tatou fa'a-va'aiga lautele, e autu i luga o le
tosina nai lo le fa'alauiloa; e mana'omia pea ona tatou fa'atumauina
le lē ta'ua o le tagata lava ia, i le tulaga o lomitusi, leitio,
televise ma tifaga.
Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than
promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of
press, radio and films.
12. O le le faailoaina o tatou tamaliiaga, o le faavae fa’aleagaga
lea o a tatou tu ma aga masani uma, e faamanatu mai ai pea ia i tatou
e faamuamua mataupu faavae nai lo uiga faaletagata.
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
"I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that: I am responsible."
9TH STEP PROMISES From pages 83-84 of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous"
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook on life will change. Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us -sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.
A VISION FOR YOU, p. 164 from the book "Alcoholics Anonymous"
Still you may say: "But I will not have the benefit of contact with you who write this book." We cannot be sure. God will determine that, so you must remember that your real reliance is always upon Him. He will show you how to create the fellowship you crave.
Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't got. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.
Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny. May God bless you and keep you - until then.
Reprinted from the book Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book) with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
PRAYERS
SERENITY PRAYER
God grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And the Wisdom to know the difference.
O Le Tautalo Fa'ato'afilemu
Le Atua e foa’i mai ia te a'u le
TO’ AFILEMU e talia ai mea ou te le
mafaia ona suia,
Le LOTOTELE e suia ai mea ou te
mafaia
Ma le ATAMAI ou te iloaina ai le ese’esega.
Amene
THIRD STEP PRAYER
God,
I offer myself to Thee
To build with me & to do with me as Thou wilt.
Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will.
Take away my difficulties,
That victory over them may bear witness
To those I would help of Thy Power,
Thy love & Thy way of life,
May I do Thy will always!
SEVENTH STEP PRAYER
My Creator,
I am now willing that you should have all of me, good & bad.
I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character
Which stands in the way of my usefulness to you & my fellows.
Grant me strength, as I go out from here to do your bidding.
The AA Preamble, How it Works, Is AA for Me? The 12 steps and 12 traditions, the book Alcoholics Anonymous are all copyrighted material
by AA General Service Office (G.S.O.) of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The Samoan language translations done by AA members here and Samoa in cooperation with the AA General Service Office in Australia.