a summary of part 3 of the Synod of bishops on the theme of young people

1. THE SYNOD OF YOUTH - III
Celebrate 3 to 28 of October 2018

2. Part III: “They left without delay”
Chapter I: The Missionary Synodality of the
Church
Chapter II: Walking Together Daily
Chapter III: A Renewed Missionary Momentum
Chapter IV: Integral Formation
Conclusion

3. Part III: “They left without delay”
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From listening to the Word, we move on to the joy
of an encounter that fills the heart,
gives meaning to existence
and infuses new energy. SY 114

4. A young Church

5. The responsible participation of the young in the life of the Church is not optional,
but a requirement of life of baptismal service and
an indispensable element for the life of every community. SY 116

6. All young people, no one excluded, are in the heart of God
and therefore also in the heart of the Church. SY 117

7. “The establishment of a synodal Church
is an indispensable presupposition for a new missionary impulse
that involves the entire People of God”.
This is the prophecy of the Second Vatican Council. SY 118

8. Chapter I: The Missionary Synodality of the Church
A constitutive dynamism
a fruit of the Spirit that continually renews the Church
and calls her to practice synodality as a way of being and acting,
promoting her participation of all the baptized and people of good will,
each according to his age, state of life and vocation. SY 119

9. The style of these ecclesial paths should include fraternal listening
and intergenerational dialogue, with the aim of developing pastoral guidelines
particularly attentive to marginalized young people and to those who have
few or no contact with the ecclesial communities. SY 120

10. Synodality characterizes both the life and the mission of the Church,
which is the People of God formed by young and old, men and women
of every culture and horizon, and the Body of Christ, in which we are members
of one another, starting with those who are marginalized and trampled. SY 121

11. the Church presents itself as the “tent of the conference” in which the ark
of the Covenant is kept (see Ex 25): a dynamic and moving Church that
accompanies, strengthened by many charisms and ministries. SY 122

12. A characteristic feature of this style of Church is the enhancement of the
charisms that make it . He Spirit gives according to the vocation and the role
of each of its members, through a dynamism of coresponsibility. SY 123

13. The ability of to increase collaboration in witness and mission, and
to accompany processes of community discernment to interpret the signs
of the times in the light of faith and under the guidance of the Spirit,
with the contribution of all the members of the community,
starting from whom it is on the periphery. SY 124

14. A style for the mission .
The synodal life of the Church is essentially mission-oriented:
it is “the sign and the instrument of the intimate union with God
and of the unity of the whole human race (Lumen Gentium 1) SY 125

15. In a world marked by the diversity of peoples and the variety of cultures,
“Walking together” is essential to give credibility and effectiveness to the
initiatives
of solidarity, integration, promotion of justice, and to show what it consists

16. young people show particular sensitivity,
inserting the inspiration of the social processes
Into principles of social doctrine:
the dignity of the person,
the universal destination of goods,
the preferential option for the poor,
the primacy of solidarity,
the attention to subsidiarity,
the care of the common home. SY 127

18. Chapter II: Walking Together Daily
From structures to relationships
It is therefore necessary awaken in every local reality
the awareness that we are God’s people,
responsible for incarnating the Gospel in different contexts
and within all daily situations. SY 128

19. the parish needs the family
to make young people experience
the daily realism of faith

20. the family also needs the ministry of the catechists
and of the parish structure to offer children
a more organic vision of Christianity, to introduce them
to the community and open them to wider horizons. SY 128

21. a vision of parochial action bounded by territorial borders
and unable to intercept the faithful with diversified proposals, and
in particular young people, would imprison the parish in an unacceptable
immobility and in a worrying pastoral repetitiveness. SY 129

22. The private life of many priests, nuns, religious, bishops
is undoubtedly sober and committed to the people; but it is
almost invisible to most people, especially to young people.SY 130

23. From the beginning the Church did not have a rigid and homologous form,
but it was developed as a polyhedron of people with different sensibilities,
backgrounds and cultures. In this way it shows that it brings the treasure
of the Trinitarian life into the clay vessels of human life. .
Community life

24. Harmony which is a gift of the Spirit does not abolish the differences,
but gives them a symphonic richness. This meeting in the one faith
among different people is the fundamental condition for
the pastoral renewal of our communities. SY 131

25. Only one united and plural community can openly propose itself and bring
the light of the Gospel into the areas of the social life that challenge us today:
the ecological question,
the work,
the support to the family,
marginalization,
the renewal of politics,
cultural and religious pluralism,
the path to justice and peace,
the digital environment. SY 132

26. The proclamation of Jesus Christ, dead and risen,
who revealed the Father to us and gave his Spirit,
is the fundamental vocation of the Christian community.
SY 133

27. part of this announcement is the invitation to young people
to recognize in their lives the signs of God’s love and to
discover the community as a place of encounter with Christ. SY 133

28. a living knowledge of Jesus Christ and his Gospel,
the ability to read one’s own experience
and the events of history in faith, SY 133

29. a accompaniment to prayer and to the celebration of the liturgy,
And the introduction to the Lectio divina

30. and support for the witness of charity
and the promotion of justice SY 133

31. The youth are open to the languages of beauty,
music and different artistic expressions,
and to the forms of digital communication. SY 133

32. The dimensions of the corporeity, of the affectivity and of sexuality
must be taken into account, since there is a deep intertwining of
education to faith and education to love. SY 133

33. The Eucharistic celebration is generative
of community life and synodality of the church

34. accompany young people to discover the value of Eucharistic
Adoration as a prolongation of the celebration,
in which to live contemplation and life silent prayer. SY 134

35. Young people need to feel loved,
forgiven, reconciled and have secret nostalgia
for the merciful embrace of the Father. SY 135

36. In many contexts popular piety plays an important role
in access for young people to the life of faith
in a practical, sensitive and immediate way. SY 136

37. Often young people are sensitive to the dimension of diakonia.
Many are actively engaged in voluntary service and
find the way to meet the Lord in service. SY 137

38. The Church will be able to thus present itself to them
as a welcoming home, characterized by a family-made
atmosphere of trust and confidence. SY 138
Youth ministry in
a vocational key.

39. The vocation is the fulcrum around which all the dimensions
of the person are integrated. This principle concerns not only the
individual believer, but also the pastoral in his environment. SY 139

40. only in the vocational dimension can the whole pastoral effort
find a unifying principle, because here, it finds
its origin and its fulfillment. SY 139

41. To animate the whole pastoral care of the Church
by presenting effectively the multiplicity of vocations. SY 139

42. The goal of the pastoral care is in fact to help each one of us,
through a path of discernment, to arrive to
the “measure of the fullness of Christ (Eph 4:13) SY 139

43. youth and young adulthood is the privileged season of life
and life choices, that respond to the call of God. SY 140

44. In a fragmented world that produces dispersion and
multiplies memberships, young people need to be helped
to unify life by daily reading the experiences
in depth and discerning. SY 141

45. These moments of meeting and sharing are appreciated almost everywhere
because they offer the possibility of walking in the logic of pilgrimage,
to experience fraternity with everyone, to joyfully share faith
and grow in belonging to the Church. SY 142

46. the oratories and youth and young adult centers
and other similar structures show
the educational passion of the Church. SY 143

47. — the school and the digital environment,
the existential suburbs,
the rural world and work,
musical and artistic expression, etc.—
creating a new type of more dynamic
and active apostolate. SY 143

49. Synodality is the method by which the Church can face old
and new challenges, being able to gather and make the gifts
of all its members dialogue, starting with the young.
Ch III: A Renewed Missionary Momentum - Some urgent challenges

50. The digital environment is a challenge
for the Church on many levels. SY 145

51. The priority that many assign to the image
as a communicative vehicle,
it cannot fail to question the modalities
of transmission of a faith based on
listening to the Word of God
and reading the Sacred Writing.
SY 145

52. The Synod hopes that appropriate offices are set up at the appropriate levels
in the Church organizations, for digital culture and evangelization,
which, with the indispensable contribution of young people,
promote ecclesial action and reflection in this environment. SY 146

53. “Accept, protect, promote, and integrate”, the four verbs
with which Pope Francis summarizes the lines of action
in favor of migrants, are synodal verbs. SY 147

54. An area of particular importance to this regard is that of
the female presence in the ecclesial organs at all levels,
also in responsibilities, and of female participation
in ecclesial decision-making processes
respecting the role of the ordained ministry. SY 148
Nicola SpezzatiLinda Ghisoni
Gabriela GambinoHermine Seier
Emer McCarthy
Natalia Goverkar
Mariela Enoc
Barbara Jatta

55. In the current cultural context the Church struggles to transmit
the beauty of the vision of Christianity of corporeity and sexuality,
as emerges from the Holy Scriptures, from the Tradition
and the Magisterium of the last Popes. SY 149

56. the difference and harmony between male and female identity ….
In this regard, the Synod reaffirms that God loves each person
and so it is the Church, renews its commitment against all discrimination
and violence on the basis of sexuality. SY 150

57. The church considers it reductive to define the identity
of people solely by their “sexual orientation”. SY 150

58. The Church engages
in the promotion of a social,
economic and political life
in the sign of justice,
solidarity and peace,
as young people also
strongly demand. SY 151

59. “work is a fundamental dimension of existence of man on earth”
(Pope John Paul II, Laborem Exercens, No. 4) and
the lack of it is humiliating for many young people. SY 152

60. Young people encourage the Church to be prophetic in this field,
with words, but above all through choices that show that
an economy that is friendly to the person
and the environment is possible. SY 153

61. the importance of offering young people a formation
in the socio-political commitment. SY 154

62. They are called to open up to young people of other
religious and spiritual traditions, to maintain authentic relationships
with them foster mutual knowledge and healing
from prejudices and stereotypes. SY 155

63. As Pope Francis has affirmed on the occasion
of the visit to Patriarch Bartholomew in 2014,
it’s the young people “who urge us today to take
steps towards full communion. SY 156

65. an anthropological vision of the person as totality and
a type of knowledge that it does not separate but grasps the connections,
and learns from experience by re-reading it in the light of the Word,
and is inspired by the exemplary testimonies rather than by abstract models. SY 157
Ch IV: - Integral Formation

66. Thus it requires a new formative approach,
which points to the integration of perspectives,
makes capable of grasping the intertwining
of problems and able to unify the different
dimensions of the person.
SY 157

67. It is therefore important for the Christian community to have
a significant presence in these environments with qualified teachers,
significant chaplaincies, and an adequate culture of commitment. SY 158

68. They are called to propose a model of formation that is capable
of making the faith dialogue with the questions of the contemporary world,
with the different anthropological perspectives, with the challenges of science and
technology, with changes in social customs and with commitment to Justice. SY 158

69. promotion of youth and young adult creativity in the fields of science
and art, poetry and literature, music and sport, digital and media, etc. SY 158

70. The recent Apostolic Constitution Veritatis gaudium
on universities and ecclesiastical faculties has proposed
some basic criteria for a training project that responts
to the challenges of the today: SY 159

71. This is why the Synod proposes the enhancement of experiences of youth
and young adult mission through the establishment of evangelization training centers
for young people and to young couples through an integral experience
that will end with sending in mission. SY 160

72. Discernment
-an experience of shared fraternal life
-with adult educators who are essential, sober, and respectful of the common
home;
-a strong and significant apostolic proposal to live together;
-and an offer of spirituality rooted in prayer and sacramental life. SJ 161

73. It is a sort of ‘initiation’ to the sacrament of the marriage
that provides them with the necessary elements to be able to receive it
with the best provisions and start family life with a certain solidity”
Accompaniment
to marriage

74. It is important to continue the accompaniment of young families,
especially in the first years of marriage, helping them also
to be an active part of the Christian community. SY 162

75. Integral formation of candidates
To the ordained ministry
and for religious life
1 - capable of fraternal relationships,
of an empathic listening and
of profound inner freedom.

76. 2 - proper accompaniment requires a serious and competent work
in differentiated educational teams, including female figures.

77. 3 - aim at developing in future pastors and consecrated persons
the capacity to exercise their leadership role in an authoritative
and non-authoritarian way, educating young candidates
to give themselves for the community.

78. 4 - too often young people present themselves at seminaries
or training houses and are welcomed without adequate knowledge
and a thorough reading of their personal history
5 - concerns the numerical consistency of the training communities.

79. Proposals for promoting renovation
1 - keep young people in constant contact with the daily life of families
and communities, with particular attention to the presence of female figures
and Christian couples, so that formation is rooted in the concreteness of life
and characterized by a relational trait capable of interacting
with the social and cultural context. SY164

80. 2 - specific preparation concerning the pastoral care of the young people. SY 164

81. 3 - according to the vision and spirit of
the Ratio fundamentalis institutionis sacerdotalis,
evaluate the possibility of verifying the training path
in an experiential and community sense. SY 164

82. All the vocational differences are gathered in the
one and universal call to the holiness, which
in the end can only be the fulfillment of that
appeal to joy of the love that resounds in
the heart of every young person. SY 165
CONCLUSION

83. We must be holy to be able to invite young people to become so. SY 166

84. contemplate and meditate during the Synod the courage of
many young people who have renounced their lives (martyrs)
in order to remain faithful to the Gospel
has been moving for us; . SY 167

85. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL
Abuelos
Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza
Amor y Matrimonio
Amor y Matrimonio 1 - el mundo de hombres y mujeres
Amor y Matrimonio 2 – crecer hastala madurez sexual
Amor y Matrimonio 3 – sicología – diferencias y complementariedad
Amor y Matrimonio 4 – causas de la atracción sexual
Amor y Matrimonio 5
Amor y Matrimonio 6
Amor y Matrimonio 7
Amor y Matrimonio 8
Amor y Matrimonio 9
Amoris Laetitia – cap 1
Amoris Laetitia – cap 2
Amoris Laetitia – cap 3
Amoris Laetitia – cap 4
Amoris Laetitia – cap 5
Amoris Laetitia – cap 6
Amoris Laetitia – cap 7
Amoris Laetitia – cap 8
Amoris Laetitia – cap 9
Amoris Laetitia – introducción general
Carnaval
Domingo – día del Señor
El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños
El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucaristía)
Espíritu Santo
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la iglesia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen
Feria de Sevilla
Gaudete et exultate
Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón
Hermandades y cofradías
Hispanidad
Lodato si 1 - 6
Lumen Fidei – cap 1
Lumen Fidei – cap 2
Lumen Fidei – cap 3
Lumen Fidei – cap 4
Madre Teresa de Calcuta – Santa
María y la Biblia
Medjugore peregrinación
Misericordiae Vultus en Español
Papa Francisco en México
Papa Francisco – mensaje para la Jornada Mundial Juventud 2016
Papa Francisco – visita a Chile
Papa Francisco – visita a Perú
Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2
Papa Francisco en Cuba
Papa Francisco en Fátima
Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia
Papa Francisco en Panamá – JMJ 2019
Papa Francisco en Abu Dabi
Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1
Revolución Rusa y comunismo 2
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 3
Santiago Apóstol
Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC
Sinodo de los jovenes
Vacaciones Cristianas
Valentín
Vocación
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86. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9
Amoris Laetitia – general introduction
Carnival
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Football in Spain
Gaudete et exultate
Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII
Holidays and Holy Days
Holy Spirit
Holy Week – drawings for children
Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC
Inauguration of President Donald Trump
Juno explores Jupiter
Laudato si 1 – care for the common home
Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation
Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis
Laudato si 4 – integral ecology
Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action
Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality
Love and Marriage 1-
Love and Marriage 2 – growing up to sexual maturity
Love and Marriage 3 – psychological differences and complimentarity
Love and Marriage 4- causes of sexual attraction
Love and Marriage 5- freedom and intimacy
Love and Marriage 6 - human love
Love and Marriage 7 - destiny of human love
Love and Marriage 8- marriage between Christian believers
Love and Marriage 9 – sacrament of marriage
Lumen Fidei – ch 1
Lumen Fidei – ch 2
Lumen Fidei – ch 3
Lumen Fidei – ch 4
Medjugore Pilgrimage
Misericordiae Vultus in English
Mother Teresa of Calcuta – Saint
Pope Francis in America
Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland 2016
Pope Francis in Pnamña (W.Y.D)
Pope Francis in Abu Dabi
Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the Gospels
Russian Revolution and Communismo 3 civil war 1918.1921
Russian Revolution and Communism 1
Russian Revolution and Communismo 2
Saint Patrick and Ireland
Sunday – day of the Lord
Synod of the youth
Thanksgiving – History and Customs
The Body, the cult – (Eucharist)
Valentine
Vocación
Way of the Cross – drawings for children
Winter Olympics – Korea2018
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