Rethinking Salesian Youth Ministry
  • 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
  • 2
  • 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 towards
    • education to the faith
  • Attention !
  • The Witness of EPC
    • Guarantee
    • the 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 activities
  • Educational 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
  • 3
  • Encounter with culture in the world of the young
  • Encounter with culture
  • in 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 culture
  • in 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 culture
  • in the world of the young
  • Our
  • attitudes?
  • Our
  • pastoral
  • understanding?
  • Our convictions?
  • Our discernment?
  • We check on:
  • Our attitudes
  • Our pastoral understanding
  • of the situation
  • Our vocational
  • Convictions
  • Our discernment
  • Evangelize
  • educating
  • in the culture
  • of our time
  • 4
  • The Gospel
  • education
  • in
  • 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 faith
  • through 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
  • education
  • inspired by
  • the Preventive
  • System
  • The Gospel: Its place
  • and role in evangelization
  • Salesian education
  • forms persons
  • with
  • professional
  • competence,
  • moral conscience ,
  • social commitment
  • The young are called to be protagonists of
  • evangelization;
  • Builders
  • of a new
  • society and culture
  • persons
  • with
  • Professional competence
  • Moral conscience
  • Social
  • commitment
  • · 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
  • 5
  • A Youth Ministry
  • Integral
  • &
  • Coordinated
  • Youth Ministry
  • integral & coordinated
  • Encuentro con la cultura
  • en 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
  • Personal
  • Accompaniment
  • Community and Ecclesial experiences
  • Vocational Discernment
  • FORMATION
  • TO
  • see
  • understand interprete
  • An integral and coordinated ministry
  • A formation that renders un capable to
  • see
  • understand
  • interprete
  • Our life
  • Our society
  • Our youth
  • Our faith
  • EPC
  • Missionary
  • SEPP
  • Shared
  • Animation of EPC
  • Salesians and laity
  • who share:
  • Life, Faith & Mission
  • An integral and coordinated ministry
  • Drawing out the SEPP
  • by 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?
  • ¿
  • ¿
  • 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
  • ¿
  • 6
  • History
  • Persons
  • Time Frame
  • Methodology
  • 6
  • Persons
  • History
  • Time frame
  • Methodology
  • From
  • General Chapter 26, 45
  • Updating
  • the Preventive System
  • From
  • when
  • did this journey
  • of rethinking
  • Youth ministry start?
  • From
  • when
  • is this
  • rethinking?
  • From GC 26
  • the
  • Salesian Congregation
  • has 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
  • Youth
  • Ministry?
  • Who is involved
  • in this rethinking
  • of Youth
  • Ministry?
  • · 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
  • Communty
    • That reflects on
    • on its own pastoral animation
    • in the place where it is situated
  • Pastors of the young
    • according to the heart of God
    • With the passion of “da mihi ánimas”
  • Updating
    • The orientations of the document
    • “Salesian Youth Ministry -
    • Basic frame of reference”
    • (Rome, 1998, 2000)
  • Community
    • that reflects
    • the animation of its own ministry
    • in the context where it is situated
  • Pastors of the young
    • According to the heart of God
    • with the passion of “da mihi ánimas”
  • Updating
    • Of the orientations of the document
    • “Salesian Youth Ministry.
    • Basic frame of reference”
    • Rome 1998, 2000
  • Indications
  • Indications
  • 1
  • The Salesian Community
  • within the EPC
  • 2
  • Reading and Reflection on the text
  • 3
  • Reflection
  • by the Provincial Council
  • 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
  • thanks
  • thanks
  • thanks a lot