Pascual Chavez Villanueva – Vocation and formation: gift and task

Contents:

• 1. VOCATIONAL CONSISTENCY AND FIDELITY, CHALLENGES FOR VOCATION
  • 1.1 Motivations
  • 1.2 Anthropological opportunities and challenges
    • Authenticity

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

Reference time period: 2013

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB