Contents:
- Don Bosco in France, Spain, Portugal and Southern Belgium
- The beginnings, a successful planting of the charism
- Spectacular development
- Today’s cultural, social and religious situation
- Salesian situation in the Region
- A word about the different Works
- Youth ministry
- Social communication
- Missionary dimension
- The Salesian Family
- Initial and subsequent formation
- Ongoing formation
- Challenges facing the Region
- Lines of action
- 1. Develop a specific kind of vocational animation that bears witness to community life and the fruitfulness of the mission
- 1.1. Ensure the conditions for each community to live a true spiritual experience and be a witness to the faith that can be perceived by the young
- 1.2. Create a new kind of truly meaningful salesian presence, attractive and inviting for young people with evangelisation as its first objective
- 2. Implement the consequent changes needed in the life and organisation of the Provinces and of the Region
Reference time period: 2004
P. C. Villanueva, “I give thanks to God each time I remember You” (Phil 1,3). Presentation of the Western European Region, in «Acts of the General Council of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco» 85 (2004) 387, 3-46.
Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB