Review article
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.29.4.7
Social Pastoral Care of Young People. The Example of the Friends of St. Martin Association
Igor Jakobfi
orcid.org/0000-0003-0963-9778
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Đakovo, Croatia
Abstract
Within the scope of the Second Diocesan Synod, the Archdiocese of Đakovo-Osijek has developed its new path of evangelization process. Concerning the laity, private associations of believers play an important role in this process and are expected to contribute to the synthesis of religious and secular life according to new pastoral models. Today, the question remains as to how much these associations have responded to the synodal demands. To contribute to the search for an answer and in search of examples of good practice, we investigated the Friends of St. Martin Association. The first part of the paper presents the features and principles of social pastoral care of young people as a set of criteria to evaluate the implementation of synodal de-mands in the field of youth ministry. The second part of the paper presents an evaluation of projects for young people implemented by the Association, and the third and final part offers practical guidelines for the future pastoral practice of the Association and societies in the Archdiocese.
Keywords
Đakovo-Osijek Archdiocese; Second Diocesan Synod of Đakovo and Srijem; the social doctrine of the Church; social pastoral care of young people; laity; Friends of St. Martin association; associations of believers
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269473
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Publication date:
28.12.2021.
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