Pascual Chavez Villanueva – «Come and see» (Jn 1,39) The need for vocation ministry

Contents:

• Premiss: Some significant events in the second half of 2010
• Commentary on the Strenna 2011:
• 1. Returning to Don Bosco

• How did Don Bosco carry out this task of promoting vocations?
• 2. A prior need: to create and develop a vocational culture
• Life is vocation
  • Open to God and to others
  • Lived as a gift and as a task
• 3. Aspects which have a special significance in vocational animation and proposal
• Promoting a vocational culture: the essential task of Youth Ministry
  • Education to love, to chastity
  • Education to prayer
  • Personal accompaniment
  • The centrality and the role of religious consecration in the mission of the Salesian Family
  • The Salesian Youth Movement, a special place for vocations
• 4. Conclusion. The beauty and the relevance of the Salesian vocation
  • The caravan in the desert
  • The dance of life

Reference time period: 2011

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB