Salesian Family

Province Pastoral Plan 2004-2007 Salesian Family
Preamble: The Salesian Family is the fruit of Don Bosco’s charismatic creativity as Founder of apostolic institutes and Teacher of Holiness. Various groups of the Salesian Family have been active in California for over a century, and in 2004 Salesian groupings in California and Texas, in addition to the SDB, FMA and COOPERATORS, include: Don Bosco Volunteers (VDB), Don Bosco’s Past Pupils, Past Pupils of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, Caritas Sisters of Miyazaki (CSM), Association of Salesian Women (ADS) and the Association of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA). We Salesians of the San Francisco province know that to give ourselves to the young we must cultivate vocations to the Salesian Family in our part of the world.
Themes	Goals	Strategies	Tactics
Call to Holiness	1. To promote awareness of and foster committed membership in the Salesian Family as a way of fostering holiness in the Church.	1. By cultivating interest in “Salesian co-operation” among young adults and lay collaborators attached to our works.	1. In conjunction with the feast of Don Bosco, the local delegate for Cooperators in each house will assist local Cooperator groups to inform youth and lay collaborators about Salesian Cooperators, and invite their participation. 2. In houses with no active Cooperators, the local delegate for Cooperators will ask the Provincial Council of Cooperators to send representatives to inform youth and lay collaborators about Salesian Cooperators, and invite them to form a local group.
		2. By promoting and renewing the Alumni movement in each province school according to the inspiration of the World Confederation of Don Bosco Past Pupils.	1. In each school at least one Salesian will be active in the school’s alumni association. 2. Where possible, Salesians will assist the school’s alumni association to affiliate with World Conference of Don Bosco Past Pupils. 3. Once a year, the Salesian Family Delegate will insure that the officers of the various alumni associations active in the province have the opportunity to meet together.

Fraternal Community	1. To accompany various branches of the Salesian Family, especially Cooperators and Past Pupils.	1. By welcoming, inviting, and communicating with the various members of the Salesian Family.	1. Local communities will invite members of the Salesian Family to participate in Salesian celebrations and/or prayer experiences throughout the year.

Significant Presence with Youth	1. To reconfirm our ministry to the Salesian Family at the provincial and the local community levels.	1. By establishing a Salesian Family Commission in the province.	1. The Salesian Family Delegate will form a Salesian Family Commission from current active members of the branches of the Salesian Family by January 2006.
		2. By insuring that the province is informed about the various members of the Salesian Family.	1. Province publications, especially the Salesian Bulletin, will feature items on Salesian Family. 2. The Salesian Family Commission will print brochures on the various branches of the Salesian Family in time for the 2007 Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, and distribute them to all the communities. 3. Local communities will forward information on Salesian Family topics to the province webmaster at the start of every month, for posting on the province web site.

Formation	1. To form a plan of on-going formation on Salesian Family for members of the province.	1. By providing Directors with up-to-date resources on the nature and role of organizations that make up the Salesian Family.	1. The Salesian Family Delegate with members of the Salesian Family Commission will meet once each year with SDB communities to form, review and evaluate a local plan of on-going formation and information on the Salesian Family. 2. The Salesian Family Commission will help plan and coordinate days of recollection and/or formation for members of the Salesian Family.

Resources: Personnel and Finances	1. To cultivate dedicated and qualified animators for the Salesian Family.	1. By working with the province Youth Ministry and Formation Teams to include formation in Salesian charism and vocational animation in province programs of on-going formation.	1. The Salesian Family Commission will develop points for the curriculum of SES, SLIM and ISS that will deepen awareness of the Salesian Family as an ecclesial movement to be implemented in the programs for the summer and fall of 2005.
		2. By resourcing to Don Bosco’s Past Pupils groups of different national origins operative within the territory of the San Francisco province.	1. The Salesian Family Commission will promote workshops and prayer days for various immigrant Salesian Family groups operative within the province, helping these groups to engage facilitators, retreat preachers, etc.