PARISH YOUTH MOVEMENT

WHAT WE PROPOSE MOVEMENT:

- not organisation or association, with statutes, membership card, uniform or badges...

- but “movement”, that is “being mobilised and moving“

- a vital process that is expressed in word, presence and action

- a spirit incarnated in a style of life and action

- creative impulse: translating the values into renewed forms of life and action

YOUTH - OF THE YOUTH:

- of the youth from 12-25 years or so

- grouped by age, according to state of development

- who gather in the name of faith.

PARISH – FOR THE COMMUNITY

- it is not a movement of youth for youth but of “youth for the community"

- the youth do not gather just for themselves but to contribute, with their uniqueness, to the growth of the whole parish community

- a vocational movement, the environment in which the youth, stimulated to be more and to grow ‘with’ and ‘for’ others, discover their vocation:

- their fundamental vocation to be sons and daughters of God

- their specific vocation, the way in which they are called to live out that fundamental vocation

- movement promoted by the parish community in line with the communitarian journey of the whole parish