The document Young Salesians and Accompaniment: Orientations and Guidelines is the result of collaboration between the Salesian Formation Department and the Salesian Youth Ministry Department . The text focuses on the spiritual accompaniment of young Salesians following the method of discernment: recognizing, interpreting, choosing.
In this letter, the Rector Major extends blessings in the season of grace following Jesus Christ’s Resurrection. They emphasize the mission of guiding young people to encounter Christ’s love, reflecting on recent events like the situation in Haiti and the unification of Provinces in Argentina. Continue reading “Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “«And he took pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself to teach them at some length» (Mk 6,34). Salesian youth ministry” in “Acts of the General Council of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco””
The animation and coordination of pastoral work are carried out on different levels: local, provincial, interprovincial and international.
We propose some reflections on the most important features of the works and services in which one carries out the Salesian Youth Ministry outlined in the Educative and Pastoral Project.
In these pages I would like to reflect on youth ministry with a special focus on family. I hope that, by the end of this reflection no one could say that most of the considerations made were on family ministry rather than on youth ministry. Nevertheless, I think we cannot have a different approach to the subject – youth ministry – when as Church and as Congregation we have had recently at least three magisterial indications in that direction: the letter of the Holy Father on the bicentennial of the birth of St. John Bosco, his apostolic exhortation on love in the family, and the 2017 Strenna of the Rector Major.
Don Bosco’s God-given vocation for the mission of salvation of the young, especially the poorest, involves many people and groups in a common spirituality and a shared educational and pastoral method which is the Preventive System. It is the source and inspiration of a
concrete and original way of living and implementing the Salesian mission which we call Salesian Youth Ministry. In this fourth chapter, the educative and pastoral approach will gradually take shape, starting from its guiding principle which is pastoral charity. The centrality of pastoral charity offers a real prospect of renewal for the pastoral care of young people. It is therefore the criterion and pivot of pastoral planning at all levels. The Preventive System, in so far as it is a project of holistic education, comprises essentially two aspects. It is a project of Christian life (Salesian Youth Spirituality) and a practical pedagogical method. Continue reading “Salesian Youth Ministry Department – “The preventive system: a spiritual and educational experience” in “Salesian Youth Ministry””
The firs chapter is of an inspirational nature. As well as giving youth ministry a positive slant on the youth situation, it opens it up to all the young people’s expectations, even those that are hidden and unconscious. Only by inhabiting their world can we come to really appreciate its potential. Continue reading “Salesian Youth Ministry Department – “Innhabiting the life and culture of today’s young people” in “Salesian Youth Ministery””
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