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1. To return to the young, especially the poorest, with Don Bosco’s heart (CG26, 13).

1. Fostering a deeper knowledge and experience of the charism, proposing procedures that lead to this reaching the animators of YM (cf. GC26, 7.19).

2. Making the Salesian presence more effective in the international institutions that are involved in policies that regard youth (GC26,18).

1.1.1.1. Invite the regional teams to propose programmes of charismatic formation for all the animators so that the charism will be adequately transmitted to all sectors of YM (cf. CG26, 19).

1.1.1.2. Ensure continuity in the conclusions and directives from the regional meetings of the various sectors, with special attention to the theme «Starting afresh from Don Bosco».

1.1.1.3. Study in the World Consultative Body the challenge of «Starting afresh from Don Bosco» and put the conclusions into effect.

1.1.1.4 Get the Provincials to carry out a revision of the SEPP, so that there may be a greater familiarity with the youth situation in the various cultural contexts.

1.1.2.1. Together with the Department for the Missions, foster the commitment of the YM Department in international organisations.

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1. To propose to young people, with joy and courage, to live life as Jesus Christ lived it (GC26, 36).

2. To provide in all situations a more effective integration of evangelisation and education, following the approach of the Preventive System (GC26, 41).

3. To inculturate the process of evangelisation in order to respond to the challenges of the regional contexts (GC26, 46).

2.1.1.Proposing a deeper reflection on the subject of “evangelisation” as an essential aspect of the SEPP.

2.1.2.Putting greater emphasis on the centrality of the Word of God, as the soul of evangelising activity.

2.2.1.Clarifying the relationship between evangelisation and education, so as to implement the Preventive System and to adjust the frame of reference of YM to the changed cultural conditions (cf. GC26, 45).

2. Promoting a reflection on the contribution the oratorian criterion (cf. C 40) might be able to make to current renewal of catechesis in the Church (cf. GC26, 45).

2.3.1.Accompanying with appropriate suggestions evangelising and educational activity on behalf of young people of other religions (cf. GC26, 51).

1. Study in the World Consultative Body, in collaboration with the Social Communication Department, the challenge of the «urgent need to Evangelise and the need for Vocation ministry».

2. Foster, in collaboration with the Faculty of Education (FSE) and the Youth Ministry Department (DPG) at the UPS, reflection on the subject of evangelisation and education.

1. Invite the YM Centres and Delegates to propose pastoral programmes that will be more and more animated by the centrality of the Word of God, offering models to be contextualised (cf. GC26, 50).

1. Establish a convergence between the reflections of the World Consultative Body and those of the regional meetings about the relationship between «evangelisation and education», with the aim of giving due weight to the oratorian contribution of the Preventive System to the renewal of catechesis.

1. In collaboration with the Regional Councillors promote, through the Centres, formation proposals that are in dialogue with cultural and religious diversity.

2. In the various regional meetings focus on the aim of improving the Christian initiation catechesis, and ensuring a commitment to evangelisation in all the works.

3. Propose a projectual vision of pastoral activity in Institutes of Higher Education amd in Universities.

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1. To arouse in the young an apostolic commitment to the Kingdom of God with the passion of da mihi animas cetera tolle and encourage their formation (GC26, 65).

2. To make explicit the proposal regarding Salesian consecrated life and promote new forms of vocational guidance and the aspirantate (GC26, 69).

1. Promoting more and more a vocational mentality and culture in which young people are offered the opportunity for guidance and formation that makes them capable of formulating mature life plans (cf. GC26, 53).

1. Promoting reflection on new forms of aspirantate and on spiritual guidance and offering the Provinces the appropriate indications (cf. GC26, 73).

2. Studying the challenges regarding the age of the candidates, and specific courses for local native vocations (cf. GC26, 73).

3.1.1.1. With the SF sector, encourage the Centres to provide vocational experiences and projects in collaboration with the SF (cf. GC26, 60).

3.1.1.2. Foster at regional level reflection on education to the faith in all the pastoral areas, as a process of vocational guidance.

3.1.1.3. Reflect on how best to to make good use of the role of the Youth Spirituality Houses as places that offer faith journeys and experiences centred on the Word of God in the light of Salesian Youth Spirituality (cf. GC26, 16).

3.1.1.4. Take part in the re-evaluation process of the places of special Salesian interest.

3.1.1.5. Propose, in collaboration with the Centres, a school of spiritual guidance.

3.1.1.6. Propose to the YM Delegates indications with which to assess the value of the vocational animation in the SEPP.

3.1.1.7. Strengthen the collaboration with the Formation Department with proposals that deal with the topic of the affective maturity of the young.

3.2.1.1. Promote a meeting in order to reflect on and assess the various experiences of the aspirantate in the Congregation.

3.2.2.1. Together with the Departments for Formation and the Missions, promote a reflection regarding the age of candidates and the specific procedures for local native vocations.

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1. To accompany the continuing development of social works and services for young people in situations of danger and of exclusion, with special attention to the new circumstances of youth poverty such as immigration, the exploitation of children, those suffering from HIV/AIDS, etc.

2. To foster the development of voluntary service with a clear Salesian identity, paying special attention to formation.

3. To give special attention to the family in YM.

4. To develop a formation in SC that is integrated, gradual and systematic, to help in evangelising the more needy young people in the “new playgrounds,” with their language and their culture, using the language of SC (cf. GC26, 99. 102).

4.1.1. Giving support to those procedures that create synergy between the various works that are responding to new situations of disadvantage, poverty and exclusion.

4.2.1. Encouraging the already existing programmes in the field of voluntary service fostering net-working.

4.3.1. Making the family the object of pastoral activity, and also the leading subject in the SEPP.

4.4.1. In collaboration with the Department for Social Communication, launching training projects in SC for formal, non-formal and informal education (cf. GC26, 111).

4.1.1.1. Accompany regional meetings to strengthen net-working, provide courses of formation, management and coordination leading to a deeper understanding of the new forms of poverty and exclusion and the ways of responding to them.

4.2.1.1. In collaboration with the Department for the Missions, improve the implementation/application of the hand-book Voluntary Service in the Salesian Mission.

4.3.1.1. In collaboration with the sector for the SF give priority to those pastoral choices in the various projects, that consider the family as something to be accompanied and as a subject of the SEPP.

4.4.1.1. Collaborate with the Department for Social Communication to encourage the expansion and further development of educommunication - media education (cf. GC26, 111).

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1.1. To return to Don Bosco so as to develop a sense of belonging built “around a unifying centre, which is a person, a criterion and a style” (Common Identity Card n. 7) .

1.1.1. Taking care that in all the Groups of the SF there is a deeper awareness of Don Bosco as Father, Teacher and charismatic point of reference.

1.1.2. Promoting a culture of the SF “as a vast movement of persons who, in different ways work for the salvation of the young” (C. 5).

1.1.1.1. Set in motion shared formation initiatives, aimed at deepening knowledge of Don Bosco and of his charism.

1.1.1.2. Involve all the Salesian Family in the celebrations for the 2nd Centenary of the birth of Don Bosco, making this an occasion for spiritual animation and for rediscovering the charismatic figure of Don Bosco.

1.1.1.3. Make good use of all the means of communication, especially the Salesian Bulletin and other Salesian magazines to promote knowledge of Don Bosco.

1.1.2.1. Foster the understanding of Don Bosco’s original plan, always presenting the SF as a “spiritual and apostolic Movement” that is called to “increase together,” to “be formed together” and to “create synergy” in the apostolate.

1.1.2.2. Create continuity with the SYM, presenting the SF as a coherent vocational option for someone with a developed Salesian spirituality.

1.1.2.3. Encourage knowledge of the SF and its growth among the many lay collaborators and those who are close to Don Bosco.

1.2. To increase among the Confreres knowledge of, an interest in and a sense of responsibility for the SF and for its Groups.

1.3. To ensure the quality at Provincial and local level of the animation of the SF and the accompaniment of the Groups more directly entrusted to the SDB.

1.2.1. Taking care in formation of a good understanding of the charismatic importance of the SF, and in all the Confreres a mentality of participation and sharing in the SF.

1.3.1. Ensuring the quality and the continuity of the persons responsible for the various Groups.

1.2.1.1. Encourage the participation of the young Confreres in situations in which they can experience the richness of the SF.

1.2.1.2. Foster initiatives for getting to knows each other and for sharing between the Salesian community and the other Groups of the SF.

1.3.1.1. Select suitable Confreres particularly adapted to the task of the animation of the SF, especially at Provincial level.

1.3.1.2. Provide opportunities for formation for those engaged in this and for Provincial Delegates.

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2.1. To grow in the spirit of communion within the SF.

2.2. To deepen Salesian spirituality

2.1.1. Fostering an ever greater knowledge of each other among the Groups of the SF.

2.1.2. Sharing the common aspects of the spirituality and the mission.

2.2.1. Exploiting together the common elements of the charism and paying attention to specifically putting it into practice in the varous Groups.

2.1.1.1. Strengthen the experience of the World Consultative Body giving more attention to the less numerous Groups.

2.1.1.2. Set up in all the Provinces the Consultative Body of the SF and make it function.

2.1.1.3. Offer shared opportunities of spirituality and formation, especially at Province and local level (SF Days – Shared Days of Recollection – SF Retreats– Shared Formation Days on Don Bosco, on youth issues – Refleection on the Strenna for the year)

2.1.1.4. Offer information material about the various Groups.

2.1.2.1. Make the “Common Mission Statement” widely known and use it as a point of reference for shared reflection.

2.1.2.2. Encouarge wide participation in the “Salesian Spirituality Days” at Regional and Provincial level.

2.2.1.1. In shared meetings provide the possibility of knowing the specific spirituality of each Groups, also giving due weight to the smaller Groups in the SF and those who live a dimension of lay spirituality such as the SSCC, EESS, VDB, CDB.

2.2.1.2 Collaborate with the Rector Major in drawing up the Common Spirituality Statement of the Salesian Family.

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3.1. To encourage the constant reflection by the SF on the actual situation of the local area.

3.2. To draw up a shared pastoral plan along general lines, within which each Group makes its own specific contribution.

3.3. To grow in synergy among the various Groups.

3.1.1. Learning to “think together,” overcoming the fear of discussion and considering the benefit of those for whom we work.

3.2.1. Learning to reflect together about the local needs, about the resources offered by the SF, about the interventions that are concretely possible.

3.3.1.Acquiring and developing a methodology and a practice of collaboration.

3.1.1.1. Make the “Common Mission Statement” widely known and use it as a point of reference for shared reflection.

3.1.1.2. Hold regular meetings of the Consultative Body of the SF and use it as a workshop for pastoral research.

3.2.1.1. Encourage a “shared” planning process for the Provincial Consultative Bodies of the SF.

3.2.1.2. Encourage the drawing up of a pastoral plan for the area - simple (aims that are possible to achieve), concrete and capable of being evaluated – that involves the various Groups and co-involves the lay forces in the local area.

3.3.1.1. Identify common fields of operation and initiatives so as to have a significant educational and apostolic impact.

3.3.1.2. Exploit those fields already shared such as the animation of the SYM, the promotion of Salesian voluntary civil and missionary service, the fostering of priestly , religious and lay vocations.

3.3.1.3. When it is possible, launch operations in which the available Groups can work together.

3.3.1.4. Begin at least one initiative, shared by the SF, for the poorest youngsters and those at risk.

3.3.1.5. Make known the positive experiences in which the SF are working together.

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1.1. To coordinate communication within the Direzione Generale, and from there to the Provinces and to church and civil organisations (SSCS, 62).

1.1.1. Developing the various Social Communication services in dialogue and systematic collaboration with the Direzione Generale.

1.1.2. Organising better the systems and structures of the communication of the Direzione Generale with the Provinces and various different bodies.

1.1.1.1. Ensure in the Direzione Generale and in the Provinces that the Social Communication Policy of the Congregation is known and put into practice.

1.1.1.2. Develop a system for the exchange of ideas and information between the Councillor and his team, between them and the Councillors for the Departments and the Regions and with the experts and advisers.

1.1.2.1. Develop and implement in a systematic manner the working practices and the feedback of the Department for Social Communication (SSCS, 66).

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2.1. To develop in the houses and in the works of the Congregation integrated, gradual and systematic formation in Social Communication in order to evangelise young people in the “new playground,” with their languages and culture, using the language of Social Communication (cf. GC26, 99, 102).

2.1.1 Ensuring in collaboration with the Formation Department, the implementation of the document “guidelines for the formation of Salesians in Social Communication” (cf. GC26, 111).

2.1.2. Encouraging, together with the Departments for the Mission, the inclusion and the development of projects for formation in Social Conmunication and for formal, non-formal and informal education on behalf of the more needy young people (cf. GC26, 111).

2.1.3. Directing the participation and the presence in specialised centres, in schools and universities of Social Communication, both that of the Congregation and that of other bodies at different levels (cf. GC26, 44).

2.1.1.1. Guide and accompany the Provinces in drawing up, developing and evaluating the Provincial Social Communicazion Plan (PICS) as an integral part of the POI and of the SEPP.

2.1.1.2. Review the formation plans of each Province so that they include formation in SC, in harmony with the guidelines already drawn up by the Departments for Communication and for Formation (cf. GC26, 111).

2.1.2.1. Continue the expansion and the development of educommunication-media education according to the recommendations of the GC26, in collaboration with the Youth Ministry department.

2.1.2.2. Make the Provinces familiar with and help them to use, as indicated in GC26 97, the Free/libre Open Source Software system.

2.1.3.1. Promote in the Provinces the procedures already offered in the meeting of the Centres of Formation regarding SC at São Paolo in 2007, which involve the guidance, accompaniment and coordination of the centres.

2.1.3.2. Get people to reflect on the challenges and possibilities of Social Communication and of the Convergent Media for education and evangelisation, especially for “Project Europe,” in collaboration with the Departments for the Mission.

2.1.3.3. Promote collaboration and synergy among Provinces, civil, ecclesiastical and government organisations in the formation of young people with regard to Social Communication.

2.1.3.4. Spread information about the experience of the curriculi of Social Communication that are in the process of development, or already successfully in use, in our schools and universities and which encourage the training and specialisation of Salesians, educators, animators and young people.

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3.1. To consolidate and increase information and media animation, by constant practice and the unification of the aims of the ANS, sdb.org, and of the Salesian Bulletins in the world, to strengthen the voice and the image of the Congregation.

3.1.1. Reaching the standards, the expansion, and the competitive quality for an international web site.

3.1.2. Continuing the process of ‘owning’ ANS in the Congregation, in the Salesian Family and in ecclesiastical and social circles.

3.1.3. Strengthening the identity and pressing for the publication and unification of the Salesian Bulletins in the world.

3.1.1.1. Carry out a 'makeover' of sdb.org.

3.1.1.2. Provide a more unified structure between the sdb.org site and ANS, which respects the different functions but at the same time reflects those common to both.

3.1.1.3. Enrich and develop, together with the Department for the Missions, a part of the sdb.org site and look at other possibilities (for example with ANS) in the new missionary perspectives of the GC26.

3.1.1.4. Coordinate the translation in the various languages and the computerising of the Salesian texts considered more important (cf. GC26, 11-12).

3.1.1.5. Take advantage of the processes of collaboration, especially those involved in the world of Peer-to-Peer (P2P).

3.1.2.1. Continue the professional development of ANS, seeking world-wide unity and respect for its own identity.

3.1.2.2. Assist the Rector Major and his Council in the process of the appointment and the accreditation by the Press Office of the official Spokesperson of the Congregation.

3.1.3.1. Through a member of the Social Communications Department team, animate and coordinate the Salesian Bulletin at world level.

3.1.3.2. Consolidate the process of the identity and renewal of the Salesian Bulletin already begun in the previous period.

3.1.3.3. Bring together and offer systematic assistance to those responsible for the Salesian Bulletin.

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4.1. To operate according to the guidelines of the Direzione Generale and the aims and policies of the Salesian Social Communication System (SSCS), so as to arrive at united and competent productions with a strong identity and image in the field of education, pastoral work and culture (cf. SSCS, 111).

4.1.1. Setting in motion practical projects in the various geographical and cultural areas and the various sectors: print, TV, radio, folk, etc. (cf. GC26, 108).

4.2. Inculcating the need to work according to plans regarding the cultural-educative content and not simply concentrating on structures and instruments (cf. GC26, 110).

4.1.1.1. Spreading knowledge of and putting into practice in the Congregation specific guidelines for all the communication business enterprises.

4.1.1.2. Integrate within the POI the various communication and production business enterprises (SSCS, 111).

4.1.1.3. Inculcate Salesian, religious and educative criteria as well as economic principles of sustainability, professionism and efficiency in Salesian production enterprises (SSCS, 111-112).

4.1.1.4. Assist the Rector Major and his Council on the way to 2015 with an effort to adopt a common multimedial logo and name for our works: that is, towards a multimedial transnational organisation.

4.1.1.5. Find a team to produce a product (printed and/or multimedial) for the 150th anniversary of the Congregation.

4.2.1.1. Encourage an attitiude among our business enterprises of working with those who express their readiness to undertake a shared process on behalf of youngsters.

4.2.1.2. Encourage a process that will help Salesians and lay people in our works to produce and share in a coordinated way various material, writiten and audiovisual, regarding the priorities of the six-year period and the demands of the mission.

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1.1. To keep alive the missionary ad gentes vocation (cf. GC26, 49).

1.2. To organise the formation of the ad gentes missionaries.

1.1.1. Spreading the missionary ideal among the young confreres in all the Provinces.

1.1.2. Helping the Provincials and formation personnel in the discernment of a missionary vocation with clear criteria.

1.2.1. Promoting reflection on models of practice for the evangelising mission in the missions ad gentes (cf. (GC26, 50)

1.2.2. Cultivating specific missionary vocations in the territories ad gentes.

1.1.1.1. Get them to study and to know the inner motivations of the missionary heart of Don Bosco, the missionary dimension of his life.

1.1.1.2. Provide at all the stages of initial formation the appropriate information and formation about the missions ad gentes, aspects of anthropology and missiology, studies of cultures

1.1.2.1. Stimulate their vocational motivation, getting them to know some examples of Salesians missionaries “ad gentes – ad vitam”.

1.1.2.2. Together with the Formation Department help the Provinces to formulate the profile of the Salesian missionary.

1.2.1.1 Develop some missionary topics by referring to the documents of the Magisterium (AG, EN, RM, continental missionary Synods or Congresses).

1.2.1.2 Guarantee the continuity and quality of the main courses for the formation of missionaries, taking advantage of the possibility offered by Salesian centres; encourage the preparation of some confreres in the field of missiology.

1.2.1.3 Involve all the Regions in a reflection on missionary dynamics through the bi-annnual World Council.

1.2.1.4 With the Formation and Youth Ministry Departments promote reflection about local native vocations (cf. GC26, 73).

1.2.2. 1 Visit the missionaries ad gentes where they are, with a well-planned preparation.

1.2.2.2 Guarantee that new missionaries have the opportunity to attend courses in languages and culture; that all missionaries have periodical updating courses.

1.2.2.3 According to regional needs study and offer guidelines required for an effective evangelisation (rural parishes, faith journey, practising the preventive system in pluri-religious contexts)

1.2.2.4 Help the Provinces to keep in contact with their missionaries ad gentes who are working abroad.

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2.1 To keep alive in all the Provinces commitment to the missions ad gentes as an essential feature of the Congregation (C. 30).

2.2. To organise missionary animation in every Province.

2.1.1. Promoting a continuous flow of practical information about the needs of the peoples and the youth not yet evangelised.

2.1.2. Motivating all confreres to start afresh from the heart of Don Bosco - missionary.

2.1.3. Accompanying the development of missionary voluntary service.

2.2.1. Accompanying the Provincial Delegates for missionary animation (PDMA).

2.2.2. Ascertaining the integration of the missionary ad gentes dimension in the animation structure of the Province. (Reg. 18)

2.1.1.1. Maintain vital contacts with the missionaries ad gentes, encourage them to communicate their experiences and use the Salesian media to make them known (sdb.org site, ANS ), together with the Departments for Youth Ministry and Social Communication.

2.1.1.2. Integrate development education and solidarity in the missionary animation of the Provinces in a balanced way.

2.1.2.1. Spread awareness of missionary experiences lived in their own ordinary circumstances in order to stimulate the knowledge and imitation of Salesian models.

2.1.2.2. Strengthen the prayer campaign for the missions and for missionary vocations.

2.1.3.1. Encourage the setting up and the development of missionary groups in all the Provinces (cf. CG26, 53.67. 68)

2.1.3.2. Encourage, in collaboration with the Youth Ministry Department, the use and the putting into practice of the manual Voluntary Service in the Salesian Mission and circulate information about successful experiences of youth voluntary service (missionary).

2.1.3.3. Encourage the vocational outlet of missionary voluntary service.

2.2.1.1. Keep in personal contact with the PDMA, give guidance for their work, assist them with the necessary means for animation.

2.2.1.2. Continue to hold the regional meetings for the PDMA co-involving the Mission Offices - NGO, Study Centres, according to the needs of specific areas.

2.2.1.3. Re-launch some of the magazines for missionary animation in the main languages (in computer format and printed).

2.2.2.1. Ensure that missionary animation is an integral part of every Educative Pastoral Plan (EPP), with the help of the Manual of the Provincial Delegate for missionary animation (1998).

2.2.2.2. Make known and share among the Provinces successful models of the integration of missionary animation in Youth Ministry.

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3.1. To ask for missionary solidarity from the confreres in the most needy areas (cf. GC26, 97).

3.2. To coordinate economic solidarity for the most needy areas (cf. C. 79; GC26, 97).

3.3. To foster missionary synergy.

3.1.1. Motivating and encouraging confreres in the Provinces, whether they are rich or poor in vocations.

3.2.1. Motivating the Provinces to a more supportive openness on behalf of the poorest youngsters.

3.2.2. Accompanying the progress of the Salesian missionary NGO and of the Don Bosco Network.

3.2.3. Collaborating in close agreement with the office of the Economer General.

3.3.1 Reponding to the call from the new frontiers of the Salesian mission (cf. GC26, 113).

3.1.1.1. Present the most urgent needs of the Salesian missions not yet consolidated and the needs of the Church at world level – both in formation houses, and in the Salesian media.

3.1.1.2. Accompany all the Provinces in the process of the settling in of the missionaries, to facilitate intercultural communities (cf. GC26, 51).

3.2.1.1. Help the Provinces to make resources available for the most needy missions, also through the annual DOMISAL.

3.2.1.2. Promote or consolidate in the Provinces the Development and Project Offices (PDO); where appropriate, open a Mission Support Office.

3.2.1.2. Help the Provinces to accompany their NGO, Mission Office, PDO and other civil bodies, with clear Salesian criteria for the development of the Salesian mission.

3.2.2.2. Accompany the development of a net-work of solidarity among the NGO, Mission Offices and Development Offices in all the Regions.

3.2.3.1. In agreement with the office of the Economer General:

• Promote a more strategic and coordinated management of the Missionary Offices and the Don Bosco Network (DBN);

• Ensure an equitable distribution of resources and a subsequent process of checks; in particular, that the intentions of the benefactors be always respected (cf. GC26, 97).

3.3.1.1. Encourage missionary synergy in the new areas (migrant families and young people, the urban mission, social communication...).

3.3.1.2. Involve some groups of the Salesian Family in the new missionary opportunities mentioned by GC26.

3.3.1.3. Consolidate the recent fragile missionary foundations [AGC 395].

3.3.1.4. Encourage in the local and universal Church net-working with other Church missionary groups or institutions.

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1. To give a credible and courageous witness to evangelical poverty, lived personally and as a community in the spirit of Da mihi animas cetera tolle (GC26, 86).

1.1.1. Promoting a style of life that is austere, evangelical and prophetical, whose fundamental features are the centrality of God, freedom of heart, sober life style, pastoral work and the sharing of material and spiritual goods.

1.1.2. Recalling the communitarian and relational dimension of our poverty: sharing not only material goods, even though this is essential for living in community, but also spiritual experience, with its gifts, its labours and its joys.

1.1.1.1 Make each Province aware of what is indicated in the economic part of its Provincial Directory, and assess its effective implementation (cf. GC26, 88), as well as its updating according to changes in the local situations.

1.1.1.2. Assist the regional and Provincial Formation Commissions in assessing and in evaluating the practice of poverty in their respective areas and in the houses of formation (cf. GC26, 89 and 92) .

1.1.2.1. Promote a practice of poverty more in terms of sharing and of partecipation, than in the simple deprivation of things.

1.1.2.2. Give due weight – at Provincial level – to the person and role of the local economer in seeking a significant witness to evangelical poverty at community level, making it more than a simple technical-administrative function.

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2.1. To develop a culture of solidarity with the poor in the local context (GC26, 90), among the houses of the Province, and more in general, at the level of the Congregation.

2.1.1. Making each Province act in a responsible manner with those goods available to it so that they may be used in a fully transparent way and in a spirit of poverty, with a style of life and activity open to sharing and solidarity with those suffering from poverty, injustice and marginalisation.

2.1.2. Setting up practical forms of subsidiarity and solidarity at the level of the Province and of the Congregation.

2.1.3. Collaborating closely with the Department for the Missions.

2.1.1.1. Promote a renewed concern for the situations of poverty in one’s own context, with an invitation to:

- go without what is considered not necessary at community and Province level;

- put into practice concrete ways of helping and supporting those in need (cf. GC26, 91).

2.1.2.1. Continue to work on making people aware of the need for each Province to set up a Provincial Soldarity Fund.

2.1.2.2. Consolidate the positive experience that has developed with regard to the Solidariety Fund of the Rector Major.

2.1.3.1. In association with the Missions Department:

- promote a more strategic and coordinated management of the Mission Offices and of the Don Bosco Network (DBN);

- ensure a fair distribution of the resourses and subsequent system of control; in particular, that the intentions of the benefactors are always respected (cf. GC26, 97);

- promote, and where they are already present consolidate in the Provinces the Development and Project Offices (PDO).

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Interventions

3.1. To promote mangement of resources in a responsible, transparent way consistent with the purposes of the mission (cf. GC26, 94).

3.1.1. Pursuing a transparent form of administration and honest management.

3.1.2. Promoting in every Province an enterprising approach to seeking the necessary funding to support pastoral activities.

3.1.3. Seeing to the formation and updating of Provincal Economers.

3.1.4. Collaborating very closely with the Social Communication Department.

3.1.1.1. Provide for the constitution of a minimum structure at the level of Provincial Economers’ Offices.

3.1.1.2. Introduce and, where it already exists consolidate in the Provinces adequate systems of providing reports of budgets and balances.

3.1.1.3. Carry out a systematic and periodic supervision of the working practices of Provincial Economers’ Offices – especially on the occasion of the Extraordinary Visitations – at the same time verifying the implementation of the projects financed by the Congregtion (cf. GC26, 97).

3.1.2.1. Provide the Provicials and the Provincial Councils with clear guidelines regarding:

• a management that is ethical, prudent and in a spirit of solidarity of the financial resources at their disposal (cf. GC26, 97);

• an honest and “Salesian” spirit of enterprise (i.e. one faithful to our traditions) aimed at seeking the resources necessary for the mission.

3.1.3.1. Continue with the annual course of formation and updating of the Provincial Economers at the Direzione Generale.

3.1.3.2. Carry out at Regional and Provincial level formation and updating meetings with local economers.

3.1.4.1. In association with the Social Communication Department, monitor the management of the various social communication business enterprises in the Congregation so as to ensure their responsible sunstainability.

Objectives

Procedures

Interventions

4..1. To prepare the celebration of the bi-centenary of the birth of Don Bosco (2015).

4.2. To carry out extraordinary maintenence, improvement and reconstruction of some particular works,

4.1.1. Carrying out some special initiatives useful for Salesian formation and making good use of the Salesian places.

4.2.1. Drawing up a plan of the more significant work to be done, specifyiing its nature, providing a budget and the time scale for its completion.

4.1.1.1. In association with the ICP Province, take up again the “Places of Salesian interest” project, and in particular the “Colle” project.

4.1.1.2. Promote and support the cataloguing of the artistic and cultural patrimony belonging to the Congregation.

4.2.1.1. Complete the restoration of the church of the Sacred Heart in Rome and that of St John the Baptist in Turin, as projects approved during the previous six-year period.

4.2.1.2. Undertake work of extraordinary maintenance and of bringing into line with current norms at the Generalate and the Salesian Pontifical University.