STARTING AFRESH FROM DON BOSCO

Guideline 1: Return to Don Bosco

Let each community:

• Make reference to the Constitutions in daily life: use them regularly in community meetings, especially at times of discernment; choose appropriate moments for reading and commenting on them; offer occasions for the review of life.

• Practise lectio divina with Salesian sensitivity, eg by making reference to texts belonging to our tradition and the situation of those for whom we work.

• Include specific occasions within the community plan for the formation and updating in Salesianity of confreres as well as of lay people who share responsibility for the mission.
  
  

• Update the Salesian section in the House library.

Guideline 2: Return to the young.

Let each community:

• Renew its understanding and practice of Salesian assistance by involving lay people who share the responsibility.

• Plan some formation meetings as part of the annual programme, which have a thorough study of the youth situation as a topic.

• Welcome young people both for occasions of sharing our life and for meetings which reflect on their situation.

• Plan initiatives for going out to meet the young where they live their lives.

Guideline 3: Charismatic identity and apostolic passion.

Let each community:

• Organize its daily rhythms of life in such a way as to enable each confrere to take part in community occasions as well as be truly present among the young.

• Care the for quality of community prayer and liturgical celebrations.

• Highlight Salesian feasts as occasions for the community formation and transmission of the charism.

• Value the service that the Rector, as first in order of responsibility for formation, exercises through the Good Night, conferences, the personal talk and fraternal animation.