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

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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

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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?

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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

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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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