Contents:
- Vocational consistency and fidelity, challenges for vocation.
- Motivations.
- Anthropological opportunities and challenges.
- Authenticity.
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- Freedom.
- Historical context.
- Experience.
- Human relationships and affectivity.
- Postmodernism.
- Multiculturalism.
- Renunciation.
- Fidelity.
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- Vocation and formation, gift and task.
- Vocation: grace at its origin.
- Life as vocation.
- Life, Word of God.
- Life a response owed to God.
- Vocation a life-long task.
- Vocation, a mission through dialogue.
- The mission, the home of and the reason for formation.
- Formation: grace as a task.
- Charismatic identity and vocational identification.
- Objectives of formation.
- Sent to the young: conforming oneself to Christ the Good Shepherd.
- Made brothers by the one mission: making common life the location and the object of formation.
- Consecrated by God: bearing witness to the radical nature of the gospel.
- Sharing formation and mission: animating apostolic communities in the spirit of Don Bosco.
- At the heart of the Church: building the Church, the sacrament of salvation.
- Open to reality: inculturating the charism.
- Formative methodology.
- Reaching the person in depth.
- Animating a unifiying formative experience.
- Ensuring the formative environment and the co-responsibility of everyone.
- Giving formative quality to daily experience.
- Giving quality to formative accompaniment.
- Paying attention to discernment.
- Formation: the absolute priority.
- Vocation: grace at its origin.
- Concluding prayer
Reference time period: 2013
P. Chavez Villanueva, Vocation and formation: gift and task, in «Acts of the General Council of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco» 94 (2013) 416, 3-56.
Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB