7. God experience –
leading to Personal
Integrity and
Responsibility
Loving and healing interpersonal
relationships
Social Justice
A balanced spirituality for today
should include :
8. Who is a spiritual person?
Illumined by the
Absorbed by the
Guided by the
Filled with the
Led by the
11. Suited to
our times
Directed to all
Young people
Has the
characteristics
of youthfulness
To be realized
within the
Experience of
Young People
Aims at making
them Protagonists
among their peers
Helps them to become Progressively
Responsible for their growth
12.
13. Makes a specific proposal of
Holiness to young people
within the Church
14. SYS
Draws its inspiration
from the intuitions,
life and teaching of
Don Bosco, who
tried to re-write the
Gospel
Beatitudes for the
poorest and most
abandoned young
people of his time.
15. It is shared by
Salesians and
Young People in
a single
Life-experience.
(Youth and
those who are
youthful)
18. Why do we need
SYS ?
It is the identity kit of
all Salesian Youth.
Something that will
distinguish them
from the others…
It’s the Salesian
Way of being
19. A CALL TO BE
SHEPHERDS
Jesus who presents
the face of a Loving
and merciful God
“I have come that you may have life
and have it abundantly…”
20. Elements of Salesian Youth
Spirituality
Life at the
Center
SYS is a way of :
Looking at
Loving
Nurturing
Living Life
21. Spirituality of Daily Life
Day to day
Life is the
Place where
We meet
God
The Life of every person
becomes the Place where
we meet God
22. God with us : Emmanuel
GOD’S CLOSENESS TO US
THROUGH HIS
24. God’s loving
presence – felt
Concretely in
Prayer
Prayer – assurance
of God’s
closeness… the joy
of meeting the
Father, in Jesus,
through the Spirit
30. I have told
you this, so
that my JOY
may be in
you and your
JOY may
Be complete
Jesus
31. One of the most outstanding
characteristics of SYS is Joy and
Optimism
32. Serve the Lord in gladness
God Loves a
Cheerful giver
Don Bosco proposed to all young
people a holiness that was easy,
Serene and joyful
33. Dominic went to find Don Bosco:
- I need your help. I want to be
a saint. Tell me what I must
do!
Don Bosco smiled and said:
* You must be cheerful always.
* Do your duty as best as you can.
* Be a friend of Jesus.
* Do not forget to help your
companions and to enjoy your
games.
34. Don Bosco used to say to the young
people that it was easy to be a saint.
Dominic Savio and Laura Vicuña
listened to him and practised it!
And they became Saints!
35. “God loves you at the age at
which you are ….
You are
the object
Of God’s
Love
God is
Counting
On you …
Here we make sanctity consists
in being cheerful..” (Savio)
36. Be always happy and cheerful … this is
the sign of someone who loves the Lord
very much..” (M. Mazzarello)
Spontaneit
y
Joy
Celebration Fun
Games
Music
Characteristics of a Salesian Hous
37.
38. Jesus and Mary
Shall be my
Great friends
Savio & Vicuna
Cultivating a loving
Friendship with Jesus
Jesus
49. As honest citizens of our
nations, we contribute
our all, to make our nation
a better place, we own
responsibility for its growth
and development, we carry
the joys and sorrows of the
world in our heart
We live with a great sense
of solidarity with all our
brothers and sisters who suffer…
53. A spirituality of Communion and Collaboration
SDB FMA
SC
Pupils – past and present
And all …
54. I WILL GIVE YOU A
TEACHER
“Mary Has done
everything”Don Bosco
It is enough for a young
person to enter a
Salesian House, Mary
herself takes her/him
under her special
55. Mary plays a very important
role in the
Salesian Youth. She is close
to us when we are less than
sure about the meaning of
our existence…
Mary shows us the face of
a mature and committed
Christian; she is the most
beautiful portrait we have
of a Christian
