Pascual Chavez Villanueva – Vocation and formation: gift and task

Contents:

• Vocational consistency and fidelity, challenges for vocation.
  • Motivations.
  • Anthropological opportunities and challenges.
    • Authenticity.

• • • Freedom.
    • Historical context.
    • Experience.
    • Human relationships and affectivity.
    • Postmodernism.
    • Multiculturalism.
    • Renunciation.
    • Fidelity.
• 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.
• Concluding prayer

Reference time period: 2013

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB