Policoro, Italy – June 2024 – The Salesian Family Provincial Council for Italy-s Southern Province (IME) met in Policoro on 29 and 30 June. The Advisory Council represents a significant coordination and animation body of the 32 Groups of the Salesian Family, 13 of whom belong to the Province. The Policoro meeting opened with an address from the Provincial, Fr Giampaolo Roma. Taking up some fundamental passages of his Report to the Provincial Chapter last April, he said: "There is a growing awareness of SF thinking and planning, convinced that the future can only be according to the logic of a vast movement of people and pastors. This certainty for us is growing, albeit slowly." Key points on the agenda included updating the timing of the SF Study Days (including at the regional level); the presence of the SF in Houses or Sectors entrusted to the Laity in the SDB and FMA Provinces. These are important themes that highlight how timely and inescapable it is that communion is the main path of mission for the Salesian Family, and that it recognises itself as a 'vast apostolic movement' generated by the Spirit of the Lord. In Don Bosco's passion this expresses the educational and spiritual care for the salvation of all young people, in particular and the poorest and most disadvantaged

Source: Cosimina D'Errico (donboscoalsud.it)