The Salesian Youth Ministry Department
The General Council constitutes, for the Rector Major, the “instrument” and the main point of reference for carrying out the tasks of government and animation that the Constitutions assign to him. This fundamental role does not depend only on a canonical prescription (cf. CIC 627) or on the practice common to the whole tradition of religious life, but also derives from the specific Salesian tradition: it belongs to him from the very beginning of the Congregation founded by Don Bosco.
The profile and tasks of the Youth Ministry Councillor were basically defined in GC19 according to the criterion of the unity of pastoral action and the centrality of the persons of young people, gathering together sectors. Article 136 of the Constitutions provides the synthesis and the vision:
The General Council constitutes, for the Rector Major, the “instrument” and the main point of reference for carrying out the tasks of government and animation that the Constitutions assign to him. This fundamental role does not depend only on a canonical prescription (cf. CIC 627) or on the practice common to the whole tradition of religious life, but also derives from the specific Salesian tradition: it belongs to him from the very beginning of the Congregation founded by Don Bosco.
The profile and tasks of the Youth Ministry Councillor were basically defined in GC19 according to the criterion of the unity of pastoral action and the centrality of the persons of young people, gathering together sectors. Article 136 of the Constitutions provides the synthesis and the vision:
The Salesian Youth Ministry Department
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[/extra_wrap]The General Council constitutes, for the Rector Major, the “instrument” and the main point of reference for carrying out the tasks of government and animation that the Constitutions assign to him. This fundamental role does not depend only on a canonical prescription (cf. CIC 627) or on the practice common to the whole tradition of religious life, but also derives from the specific Salesian tradition: it belongs to him from the very beginning of the Congregation founded by Don Bosco.
The profile and tasks of the Youth Ministry Councillor were basically defined in GC19 according to the criterion of the unity of pastoral action and the centrality of the persons of young people, gathering together sectors. Article 136 of the Constitutions provides the synthesis and the vision:
“The councillor for the youth apostolate animates and gives direction to Salesian educative and apostolic activity in its different expressions. He ensures that the priority of our commitment to youth and the influence of the preventive system are achieved in them. He assists the provinces in the development of their pastoral plans and undertakings, so that they may be faithful to the spirit of Don Bosco and respond adaquately to the needs of the times and of different places”
The team of the Department for Youth Ministry is composed of a group of Salesians and lay people who collaborate with the Councillor for Youth Ministry, promoting reflection, animation, and accompaniment of the various processes and structures of youth ministry in the provincial communities. It serves as a reference for those who are called to assume the animation and the educative-pastoral model of the Salesian Congregation in their own province.