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STARTING AFRESH FROM DON BOSCO
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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.
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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.
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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.