THE ORGANIC PROVINCIAL PLAN

Fr. Antonio DOMENECH

Councillor for Youth Ministry

In its reflection on the salesian community the GC25 wanted to indicate also some organizational and structural conditions that would make possible and significant the “living and working together” that the Constitutions present as “a fundamental requirement of our vocation” (C. 49). Among these conditions is to be found the Organic Provincial Plan (OPP) (GC25, 82)

In the previous six year period the Rector Major, Fr. Vecchi, had already insisted that every province should consider and plan its possibilities of development to ensure the quality and the significance of community life and the apostolic activity of all the communities individually and collectively.

The General Council has reflected on the directive of the GC25 and wants to offer the provinces a practical means to help them in the next three years to produce the Organic Provincial Plan (GC25, 82-84)