Give Pastoral Activity
A Greater Missionary
Character
Message of the Holy Father
for World Mission Sunday
2010
(for the full test see
http://www.fides.org/index.php?
lan=eng)
The month of October, with the
celebration of World Mission
Sunday, offers diocesan and par-
ish communities, Institutes of
Consecrated Life, Ecclesial Move-
ments, and the entire People of
God, an occasion for renewing
their commitment to proclaim
the Gospel and give pastoral ac-
tivity a greater missionary char-
acter. … may we all see ourselves
as active participants in the
Church’s task of proclaiming the
Gospel.
Missionary zeal has always been
the mark of vitality among our
Churches (cf. Redemptoris Missio,
2) and their cooperation is a
unique testimony of unity, frater-
nity, and solidarity that makes
them credible heralds of Saving
Love! …
The 15th On-Going Formation Course for Missionaries
This year the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical Salesian University in
Rome organised the 15th on-going formation course for missionaries
from September 20 to December 9, 2010. The course is open to all who
are interested to have a qualified updating on the latest challenges re-
garding the Church’s missionary activity today.
The course requirements are similar to a semester at a university level.
It is programmed as an on-going formation course offered to the mis-
sionaries who have had some years of missionary experience. Classes
are held in Italian, by a team of university lecturers, many of whom have
missionary experience. The course concludes with a pilgrimage to the
Holy Land. For more information contact the department of missions or
Fr. Placide Carava (pcarava@gmail.com)
World Consultative
Committee for the
Missions 2010
From September 28 to 30 the World
Consultative Committee for the Mis-
sions was held at the Generalate in
Rome. It is a meeting held every two
years to advise the Department for
Missions regarding missionary anima-
tion, and formation in the Congregation
through assessments, research, studies
and personal contributions.
The World Consultative Committee is a collegial body that brings together ex-
perts in different fields of missiology, animation and formation, collaborators of
the Department for Missions from the various regions of the Salesian world,
along with representatives of the Salesian Family as well as representatives of
the Youth Ministry and the Social Communication Departments.
At the conclusion of the consultation, among other proposals, the Committee
indicated the need to finalise the Framework of Salesian Missionary Activity,
and put forward the idea of studying, by 2012, the feasibility of setting up an
Association of Salesian Missiologists and of organising a Salesian Missionary
Congress in 2015.
Salesian Missionary Intention
The Salesian Family in Centrale and Eastern Europe
That the Salesian Family in Central and Eastern Europe may commit itself
to engage in the evangelisation of youth with renewed enthusiasm, cour-
age, humility and patience.
Only twenty years ago some countries of Central and Eastern Europe emerged from a long
period of the domination of totalitarian regimes (Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Rus-
sia, Georgia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria,
Moldova, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo). Now the young people of these countries
are facing a double challenge of consumerism and secularism, mixed with the communist
atheist-materialist legacy of the past. In some of these countries there is still a lack of con-
secrated Salesian vocations, the confreres are beginning the construction of the first educa-
tional works to express our charism in the context of their cultural and religious back-
grounds .
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