salesian youth ministry
DESCRIPTION
Salesian youth ministryTRANSCRIPT
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DUCATE BY
EVANGELISIN
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VANGELISE B
Y EDUCATIN
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THE LIFE
FAITH
IN THE WORLD
WITH OTHERS
TOWARDS GOD
WITH ONESELF
GROWTH
-human
-Christian
DIMENSIONS
- body
- intelligence
- feelings
- will
ALL-ROUND DEVELOPMENT
A personal encounter with the young person and finding his place in
the educational environment
AIM
COMMUNITY ASPECT
EPC VOCACIONAL
GROUP ACTIVITY
EVANGELISATION-CATECHESIS EDUCATION- CULTURE
PASTORAL
CHARITY
POINT OF DEPARTURE
A PERSONALITY CONFORMED TO CHRIST
IN ACCORDANCE WITH SALESIAN YOUTH SPIRITUALITY
DYNAMICSOF
GROWTH
DYNAMICSOF
GROWTH
Make him capable of assimilating culture critically and of an ethical discernment according to a Christian vision of life
EDUCATIVE-CULTURALDIMENSION
Encourage a process of personal and social growth that makes the young person responsable of his own life and capable of opening himself to God
Place him in a responsible way in his social and cultural context ready to fight against every kind of marginalisation
Help the young person to make values his own and to develop the religious aspect of his personality
Help the young person to orient to their full maturity in Christand to their growth in the Church.
Irrelevance of the faith
Religiuos pluralism
Secularisation
Christian commitment and missionary awareness
Systematic process of education to the faith in
a group
Educational environment full of evangelical values
CHALLENGES: CHOICES:
EVANGELISATION-CATECHESIS DIMENSION
GROUP ACTIVITY DIMENSION
The group as the educational andevangelising hallmark feature of our ministry
Linked to the SYM as the positive experience of the Church
Open to all young people, with an animating style and growth-enabling
Accompanig them to assume with responsability his place in society and in the Church.
* Systematic discernment process
* Vocational culture: the life as a gift and a service to community
* Clear and explicit vocational proposals
* Vocational testimony of the educators
VOCATIONAL DIMENSION
Helping the young person to live his life as a vocation and to undertake his own role in the Church and in society
* With the Salesian Family and the local Church
More of strategic choices, vision-setting, evaluation
Less of initiatives here-and-there, activities left-and-right, and improvisation
• Precise and concrete objectives
• Progressive sequencing and linkaging of activities
• More and more persons and groups who share the objectives and work as a team
Building the EPCCommon mission - shared mentality
Changing the situation
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2It creates a sense of a common mission, a shared way of thinking, combining of resources
El proceso educativo3Develops in the young a sense of community, a social and ecclesialconscience
The salesian educative-pastoral project constructs the EPC and develops within it
TIME FOR ANALYSING THE SITUATION
• Situation of the young and their environment;
• Situation of the EPC
• The most important and pressing challenges
TIME FOR PRODUCING THE PLAN OF OPERATION
• The educational choices that are most urgent and possible: AIMS
• Concrete steps to be taken progressively to achieve these aims
• Courses of action and concrete steps
TIME FOR EVALUATION• Prepare instruments for evaluation: INDICATORS that are objective, concrete and capable of measurement
• Indicate when and how