 BOGOTA – COLOMBIA - SCHOOL OF YOUNG LASALLIAN ANIMATORS: From February 18th to 22nd the first level of the new District School of Young Lasallian Animators was held in the facilities of Edén in Bogota. There were 71 young people from the different Lasallian works in the District present.
In the course of the meeting there was an intense atmosphere of fraternity, prayer, critical reflection and sharing on the theological, pastoral, pedagogical, didactic and methodological elements of the animation of youth groups.
Br.Eduard Quitián, Sub-Director of the Pre-Novitiate, shared with us the work that was carried out during his course in Brasil on the history of youth pastoral ministry in the Latin-American Church and in the Lasallian District of Bogotá, especially in relation to the Indivisa Manent Lasallian Youth Movement.
Earlier, Br.Oscar Elizalde, Assistant-Secretary of CLAR, worked with the animators on the theological aspects of animation as a ministry of the Church, based on the premises of “Civilización del Amor: tarea y esperanza” (The Civilization of Love: the task and the hope) and on Lasallian spirituality and mysticism.
Br.Carlos Forero, Secretary for Pastoral Ministry, developed the theme of the foundations, mysticism, spirituality and structure of the Indivisa Manent Lasallian Youth Movement, while Br.Andrés Riveros, of the Pastoral Ministry Community, explained everything related to the dynamic of a Christian youth group to the animators.
The main work was the pedagogical block, carried out by Br.Camilo Enrique Rodríguez of La Salle College Bucaramanga, who worked on the pedagogical and methodological foundations of animation and drew up an instrument for the development of the meetings of the groups of the Indivisa Manent Youth Movement based on experiential methodology.
On the last day of work, the coordinators and delegates of pastoral ministry from all the works in the District, came together to work on the Annual Youth Animation Project, using an instrument thought out and developed by Br.Frank Leonardo Ramos of La Salle College Bogotá.
Apart from the Brothers already mentioned, some young people from the ‘Nivel Lazos’ (Links Level) of diverse District works, joined in temporarily as members of the organizing team, animating the “Kairos” which is that moment at the end of the day in which we celebrate the faith in the manner of youth, around the word of God, the experience of life and the symbols of the Indivisa Manent Lasallian Youth Movement.
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 (Brother Carlos Forero, Secretary for Youth Pastoral Ministry) |
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