Hosted by the Salesian Delegation of the Byzantine-Ukraine Rite of the East Europe Special Circumscription the meeting began yesterday and will conclude tomorrow, 13 November.

It began with Mass in the morning at which Fr Attard presided. Present at the meeting are the representatives of the Salesian Provinces of the Region, 20 Salesians who with the Councillor are studying Salesian pastoral activity and ways to improve it, starting from the Letter of the Rector Major, Fr Pascual Chávez, “Salesian Youth Ministry” (AGC 407), and in view of collaboration with other bodies in the Congregation involved in  the education and evangelisation of the young.

Also on the agenda are the relationship between youth ministry and Salesian formation and spiritual direction.

The Salesians of the Delegation are happy to be able, for the first time, to host a meeting involving the Congregation. In fact in these months Fr Attard is meeting the Provincial Delegates of the various Regions. As in the other Regions, more recently those of America South Cone, Interamerica and India, the Department is putting into effect what was included in the planning programme for the six-year period: involving them in the process of re-thinking pastoral work; reflecting on evangelisation and education in the Salesian mission; assessing the results of the agreements made last year regarding vocation promotion; preparing at regional level for a consultation process by the Department regarding the “Return to Don Bosco.”

Published 12/11/2010