FINALITÀ
General Objectives:
To familiarize the students with the concepts of youth ministry
in the Congregation from the Second Vatican Council to the
present times.
To exercise with them a rethinking of a Salesian Educative
Pastoral Project (SEPP) for youth ministry.
To consider some significant texts of the Salesian magisterium
in the post-Vatican II on strategic issues of youth ministry.
To study some chapters of the new Frame of reference 2014
for Salesian youth ministry.
To explain some ‘processual’ virtues in order to formulate an
integral SEPP for youth ministry.
ARGOMENTI
Course Outlines:
1. A brief history. Fr. E. Viganò (1978): “Salesian Educative
Project”; (1980): “In the ever-growing splendour of the
Gospel”; (1989): “The new evangelization”; 23rd General
Chapter (1990): “Educating young people to the faith;
Fr. E. Viganò (1990): “Salesian spirituality for the new evangelization”; (1991): “New education”; 24th General
Chapter (1996): “Salesians and lay people”; Fr. E. Vecchi
(1998): “Experts, witnesses and craftsmen of communion.
The Salesian community – Animating nucleus”; 25th General
Chapter (2002): The Salesian community today; Fr. P. Chávez
(2002): “My dear Salesians, be saints!”; 26th General Chapter
(2008): “Da mihi animas, caetera tolle”. 2. A common “Frame
of reference” for a Salesian youth ministry. Inhabiting the life and
culture of today’s young people. From Christ the evangelizer
to the evangelizing Church. Evangelizing and educating: Our
apostolic identity. The Preventive System: A spiritual and
educational experience. Educative and pastoral community:
Make the house a family for the young. Salesian Educative
Pastoral Project: Operational tools. Activities and works of
Salesian youth ministry. 3. Elements for a SEPP. “Personal”
processual virtues for an integral project (creative fidelity,
personal discernment, operational coherence). “Prosocial”
processual virtues for an integral Educative Pastoral Project
(systemic generosity, generative dialogue, synergistic
integration).
TESTI
Textbook:
Salesian Youth Ministry Department. 2014. Salesian Youth
Ministry. Frame of Reference. 3rd Edition. Rome: Editrice SDB.
Bibliography:
Acts of the General Council of the Salesian Society of St. John
Bosco; 20th Special General Chapter of the Salesian Society. 1971. Chapter Documents. Rome: Editrice SDB; 21st General
Chapter of the Salesian Society. 1978. Chapter Documents.
Rome: Editrice SDB; 22nd General Chapter of the Salesian
Society. 1984. Chapter Documents. Rome: Editrice SDB; 23rd
General Chapter of the Salesians of Don Bosco. 1990. Chapter
Documents. Rome: Editrice SDB; 24th General Chapter of the
Salesians of Don Bosco. 1996. Chapter Documents. Rome:
Editrice SDB; 25th General Chapter of the Salesians of Don
Bosco. 2002. Chapter Documents. Rome: Editrice SDB;
26th General Chapter of the Salesians of Don Bosco. 2008.
Chapter Documents. Rome: Editrice SDB; Vojtáš, Michal.
2017. Reviving Don Bosco’s Oratory: Salesian Youth Ministry,
Leadership and Innovative Project Management. Jerusalem: STS.