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Rethinking Salesian Youth Ministry
Rethinking
Salesian Youth Ministry
Reflections for
communities and provinces
On our way to the bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco …
With the passion of “da mihi animas”…
We need to rethink on how we carry out
our Youth Ministry in the Church
1. Introduction
2. Needs our attention
3. Encounter with the culture and the world of youth
4. Evangelize educating today
5. An integral and coordinated youth ministry
6. History, persons, time frame and methodology
index
A Call
to pay attention
2
Evangelization and education today
Attention
Understand the dynamism between evangelization and education today
Attention !
Attention
The evangelizing perspective of our SEPP ensures that our initiatives
are clearly integral and oriented towards education to the faith
Evangelizing Perspective
All initiatives oriented towardseducation to the faith
Attention !
The Witness of EPC
Guaranteethe accompaniment of the young
Attention
The witness of our EPC is the ecclesial climate in which we accompany
the young in their journey of faith
Attention!
A ministry of process and not of activitiesEducational emergency
Attention
We are called ...
To animate a ministry of proceess of faith and not of activities and events
and to give an adequate and timely response To the social emergency of education
Attention !
Encounter with culture
in the world of the young
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Encounter with culture in the world of the young
Encounter with culturein the world of the young
We look at the young
with the eyes of Jesus
We encounter the most
needy and the working
classes
We need to look at the young
with the eyes of Jeus:They are an opportunity
We need to encounter within the parameters of the present culture,
the youth most in need and the working classes
Encounter with culturein the world of the young
An attentive listening to the Spirit will make possible, an intelligent understanding
to the great changes in today’s culture
Like Don Bosco: listen attentively for an intelligent understanding
Encounter the culturein the world of the young
Ourattitudes?
Our pastoral
understanding?
Our convictions?
Our discernment?
We check on:
Our attitudes
Our pastoral understanding of the situation
Our vocational Convictions
Our discernment
Evangelizeeducating
in the culture of our time
4
The Gospel educationin
The Gospel in education
Proclaim the Good News
to the young
Proclaim along with them the
Kingdom of God
The goal of our efforts
Proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ
to the young and proclaim
along with them the KOG
that Jesus revealed to us
The Gospel in education
Youth Disciples
Missionaries of Jesus
In the faith process
with the spirituality of Don Bosco
Youth Ministry desire …
Young as disciples, missionaries of Jesus
who with the spirituality of Don Bosco
live processes of faiththrough the stages of the Kerygma
Until their insertion into the faith community
The Gospel in education
· Initiation
· Pastoral accompaniment
· Community bonding
· Prayer and Celebration
· Sacraments
· Social Commitment
· Evangelization of the evangelizers
The Gospel in education
· Initiation
· Pastoral accompaniment
· Community bonding
· The Word of God
· Celebration of the Sacraments
· Social commitment for the KOG
· Evangelization of the evangelizers of the young
Key words and experiences
The Gospel: Its place and role in evangelization
Fine tune faith with history
and culture
Touch the heart of culture
with the Preventive System
Education permits us
fine tune faith with histroy
and the culture of persons
We need to touch the
heart of culture by means of
educationinspired by
the Preventive System
The Gospel: Its placeand role in evangelization Salesian education
forms persons with
professionalcompetence,
moral conscience , social commitment
The young are called to be protagonists of
evangelization;Builders
of a new society and culture
personswith
Professional competence
Moral conscience
Socialcommitment
· Do we know about the life of faith of the young?
· Do we understand the integration between evangelization and education?
· Are we living witnesses of the Gospel?
· Change culture and life?
The Gospel: Its place and role in evangelization
The Gospel and education
· If we know the life of faith of the young?
· If we understand the integration between education and evangelization?
· If we witness to the values of the Gospel?
· If we recognize signs of change in the culture, in the life of the persons and in the place where we live?
We ask ourselves
5A Youth Ministry
Integral&
Coordinated
Youth Ministryintegral & coordinated
Encuentro con la culturaen el mundo de los jóvenes
· personal accompaniment
· various community and ecclesial experiences
· a vocational discernment in a wider sense
An integral and coordinated Ministry
The Preventive sytem of Don Bosco helps each EPC to mature by means of:
Preventive System
PersonalAccompaniment
Community and Ecclesial
experiences
Vocational Discernment
FORMATIONTO
seeunderstand interprete
An integral and coordinated ministry
A formation that renders un capable to
seeunderstandinterprete
Our life
Our society
Our youth
Our faith
EPCMissionary
SEPPShared
Animation of EPCSalesians and laity
who share:Life, Faith & Mission
An integral and coordinated ministry
Drawing out the SEPPby the EPC
with a missionary attitude of the Gospel
Indispensible conditions
An integral and coordinated ministry
Are we excited to put into practice
the pastoral decisions of the Congregation?
Do we promote corresponsibility
with the laity in our works?
Are we well prepared for
the present challenges?
¿
An integral and coordinated ministry
· If we are excited by the pastoral proposals of the Congregation …
· If we have some aspect that seems difficult to understand and put into practice
· If we are promoting coresponsibility with the laity
· If we are prepared for the challenges that our ministry offers us
We ask ourselves
6History
Persons
Time Frame
Methodology
6
PersonsHistory
Time frame
Methodology
From General Chapter 26, 45
Updatingthe Preventive System
From when
did this journeyof rethinking
Youth ministry start?
From when is this rethinking?
From GC 26 the
Salesian Congregationhas received the task
of updating the Preventive System of
Don Bosco
· Rector Major with his Council
· The Department of YM.
· Salesians and laity involved in a common and shared mission
Who is involved in this rethinking of YouthMinistry?
Who is involvedin this rethinking
of YouthMinistry?
· The RM & his Council
· The Department of YM that animates the process for the entire Congregation
through the delegates for YM
· Salesians & laity
· Preparation: General Council July · December 2009
· 1st Phase. Consultation with centres of study and experts of YM During 2010
· Study Seminar World Consultation of YM Dept 4 - 6 February, 2011
Time frame
first
phase
Second phase · During 2012 Study in the local community
· During 2013 Study of the synthesis
Time frame
second
phase
Results
CommuntyThat reflects onon its own pastoral animationin the place where it is situated
Pastors of the youngaccording to the heart of GodWith the passion of “da mihi ánimas”
UpdatingThe orientations of the document “Salesian Youth Ministry - Basic frame of reference” (Rome, 1998, 2000)
Communitythat reflects the animation of its own ministryin the context where it is situated
Pastors of the youngAccording to the heart of Godwith the passion of “da mihi ánimas”
UpdatingOf the orientations of the document “Salesian Youth Ministry. Basic frame of reference”
Rome 1998, 2000
Indications
Indications
1The Salesian Community
within the EPC
2Reading and Reflection
on the text
3Reflection
by the Provincial Council
1. The Salesian Community lives, reflects & works within the dynamism of the EPC
2. Reading and reflection on the text provided
3. Reflection and synthesis by the Provincial Council
with a new perspective
Salesian Youth Ministry
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