Contents:
- 1. VOCATIONAL CONSISTENCY AND FIDELITY, CHALLENGES FOR VOCATION
- 1.1 Motivations
- 1.2 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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- 2. VOCATION AND FORMATION, GIFT AND TASK
- 2.1 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
- 2.2 Formation: grace as a task
- Charismatic identity and vocational identification
- Objectives of formation
- 1°. Sent to the young: conforming oneself to Christ the Good Shepherd
- 2°. Made brothers by the one mission: making common life the location and the object of formation
- 3°. Consecrated by God: bearing witness to the radical nature of the gospel
- 4°. Sharing formation and mission: animating apostolic communities in the spirit of Don Bosco
- 5°. At the heart of the Church: building the Church, the sacrament of salvation
- 6°. Open to reality: inculturating the charism
- Formative methodology
- 1°. Reaching the person in depth
- 2°. Animating a unifiying formative experience
- 3°. Ensuring the formative environment and the co-responsibility of everyone
- 4°. Giving formative quality to daily experience
- 5°. Giving quality to formative accompaniment
- 6°. Paying attention to discernment
- 2.3 Formation: the absolute priority
- 2.1 Vocation: grace at its origin
- Concluding prayer
Reference time period: 2013
P. C. 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