LIVING EVANGELICAL CITIZENSHIP

65. This second part of the Working Document present in a synthetic and articulated form the voice of the provinces which, in the preparation and implelentation of the Province Chapters, carried out a indepth study on the them of GCXXI. The restitution of the richness and ideas and proposals that came offer a living and variegated picture of our «being there» in history as active citizens.

We reflected at length on how to lay out this third part which we think important for the preparation and the start of the Chapter experience. 

Two directions emerged from our research: to start from the attentive listening to the voices from the provinces and to be in continuity with the preceding General Chapters and in line with the Plan of Formation.

This part presents the reflection on some aspects of evangelical citizenship that are particularly relevant, and which characterize our way of living the demands of the Covenant in the educational mission today.

We allowed ourselves to be provoked by some questions that are closely interdependent on each other:

         -  On what foundations are our vocational identity and our witness rooted? What are the

   evangelical roots of our being active citizens?

-  Which problems and what challenges does today’s complexity put on our life and our

   educative mission? How do our communities allow themselves to be questioned by them

   in relationship to a responsible journey of evangelical citizenship?

-  How do we express our evangelical citizenship concretely today? What proposals are we

   to offer, what choices are to be made , what actions or  to be placed into the

   environments in which we live?

Our point of view is from an educational vision.   This implies the commitment to educate ourselves to assume with renewed responsibility in history, the educational mission together with the educating communities and the Salesian Family.