Salesian Youth Movement
The Salesian Youth Movement (SJB) is a spiritual community in the Catholic Church and part of the Don Bosco family .
history
The Salesian Youth Movement was founded in 1988, in the 100th year of the death of St. John Bosco (Don Bosco), the founder and father of the Don Bosco family. Their spirituality goes back to St. Francis de Sales ( Salesian youth spirituality ).
Even if a youth movement in today's sense was probably unimaginable for Don Bosco at that time, the charisma of the Salesian youth movement goes back to him: First of all, there is his idea of education, now called the preventive system , which resulted in the establishment of oratorios . In addition, during his lifetime he was the initiator of various Christian youth groups (ital. Compagnie) in which the young people themselves were active. These groups spread around the world and persisted into the 1960s. After the Second Vatican Council , the Salesians of Don Bosco and the Don Bosco Sisters looked for modern expressions of this spirituality, which - based on the Gospel and guided by understanding - should correspond to the young people of this time. Groups and associations emerged that were combined in the early 1980s to form the Salesian Youth Movement, which to this day consists of a large number of individual, partly national and partly international organizations.
It is recognized as a spiritual community in the Catholic Church .