Mexico – Meeting of Rectors in the Salesian Province of Mexico City
Mexico City, Mexico – May 2024 - A Meeting of Rectors of the Mexico City-Mexico Province (MEM) was held, chaired by Fr Ignacio Ocampo Uribe, MEM Provincial and the Provincial Council on 7-8 May, at the premises of the Pastoral Formation Centre of the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians Parish. Participants prayed, shared moments of formation, analysis of the socio-political and cultural situation, including legal ones, in the light of the teaching of the Church, of the mission and of Salesian pastoral education. They analysed the areas of formation and orientation of beneficiaries in the different environments, from the perspective of the Church's social doctrine; Salesian youth ministry and Christian human values, so that each can exercise Don Bosco's ideal of Christian identity and upright and committed citizenship autonomously but with a sense of community. The need to respond to current challenges was shared with concrete initiatives enlightened by hope, based on Christian and civil principles, respectful of the human being, their processes and development, rights and concrete responses and allowed by a critical but at the same time proactive analysis, which highlights faith in Jesus.