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ROLE OF ANIMATORS
Lay People 12: Adults should be anxious to enter into friendly dialogue with the
young, where, despite the difference in age, they could get to know one another and
share with one another their own personal riches. It is by example first of all and, on
occasion, by sound advise and practical help that adults should persuade the young to
undertake the apostolate. The young, on their side, will treat their elders with respect
and confidence; and though by nature inclined to favour what is new, they will have
due esteem for praiseworthy traditions.
ATTENTION AFFIRMATION
Are you too long and boring? The person should have an
Are you using different dynamics experience of being loved
effectively? He must be helped to know his
Are you watchful of the others’ worth
response? The freedom and
uniqueness to be respected
INTERACTION
Is friendship and mutual acceptance LEARNING
growing?
Is the group atmosphere joyful and Learning is changing some behaviour
free? Where are they in respect to this matter?
Is the attitude of sharing and caring Where should they move to? What help
growing? needed?
Which is the best way to encourage this
change?
GOAL-ORIENTATION
Facilitator should have an idea of the goal.
Gp. members should gradually become aware of that.
Action-reflection-action will be a great help.
Aloud - Does my voice reach to the end of the auditorium? Is my speech loud
and clear, but at the same time not too loud and irritating?
A Program Co-ordinator
Interiories the vision of the project, discovering it in the context of
Jesus' plan for the Kingdom
Thinks about the before, during and after of the program, discerning
God's plan for the whole and the parts of the program
Plans the details of each session, considering in detail the who, what,
when and how. Intercede for each ingredient, so that the
Lord's guidance will be there.
Makes sure that the program has achieved its Goal, especially
through the communication of vision, mission and formulation
of future plans for the participants as a whole. The program
should be one step forward in forming volunteers to be the
Christian Presence in a troubled world.
Be sure of yourself. Have a clear plan and prepare well; but be ready to
change and adapt if the situation demands. Have your eyes, ears and
heart open to the group and for the Lord.
Avoid Clichés Don't use meaningless words and phrases. Use expressions
relevant to the group.
Be resigned to the Lord's will. In the Lord a failure is not a defeat and a
success, not a great thing. What we are doing is only one step forward
in God's plan for us and the Church.
CHARACTERISTICS
• Youth Initiative.
• A move, not an organisation.
• Jesus centered - starting with God experience.
• Built on personal prayer, word of God, Sacraments (Constants).
• Building loving communities (cells, Sharing groups etc.)
• Instilling in youth a deep love for the church.
• A sign of joyful contradiction.
• Moving with the times.
• Charismatic Spirituality (Baptism of Holy Spirit, charisms).
• Evangelistic life style.
TALENT-MISSION INITIATIVES
Well convinced that youth is a time of great generosity and creativity young people at
all levels are encouraged to do something good with Lord. Christianising the different
life situations of young people is the prime task they are encouraged to take up, as
they are the best influence on modern culture and in turn most affected by it. This has
resulted in the various ministries or organised evangalisation groups and styles under
the wide umbrella of Jesus youth. Some of them are...
Parish Ministry; Campus Ministry; Christeen
Out-reaches in slums, hospitals and colonies
Intercession Net works
Music, Audio-Visual and Art ministries
Youth for Life teams
Young Professionals Networks
The Rex Band and other youth out reach groups
Evangelisation formation teams; etc.
NEW TRENDS
• Study groups
• Networking
• Talents for mission
• Committed volunteers
Jesus Youth is relevant wherever young people have the eagerness to take appropriate
initiative for the Lord.
JESUS YOUTH
1. Persons or groups that attract and CHALLENGE the youth by being a joyful
sign of contradiction.
2. Help the youth to have a FRESH LOOK at the present-day world and culture
in the proper light.
3. Communicate using relevant DYNAMICS taking into consideration the pace,
complexity and culture in which they live.
4. MODELS, not advice, exert greater influence.
5. EXPERIENCE is the greatest teacher.
6. NEW FRIENDSHIPS that lead them towards a new culture and life style.
7. Being part of a MOVEMENT helps them to have a feeling of belongingness.
8. A constant effort to build up the individual in relation to the VALUES of the
Gospel and the PERSON OF JESUS.
9. Constant encouragement to step out and REACH OUT in love and also with a
desire to introduce Jesus.
10. Help the person to acquire confidence knowing his uniqueness.
11. Encourage INITIATIVE in all its different forms.
12. Action-Reflection-Action. Plan follow up.
13. Guide them towards a NEW SPIRITUALITY.
14. Usher them into the RICHNESS OF THE CHURCH.
1. Physical Characteristics. They grow rapidly. Be patient with their clumsiness. activities not to
Girls are about a year to 18 months ahead of be too competitive or over-strenuous.
boys-They have alternating periods of energy Don't mistake fatigue for laziness. they may be
and fatigue. doing their best.
2. Mental Characteristics: They like adventure Appeal to these traits. Help them to use these to
and discovery and have active imagination- make their faith come alive. Guide them in
capable of serious thinking and have a new thinking through problems for themselves. Direct
ability to think abstractly & concretely. But them to Scriptures to find answers to tough
knowledge is growing faster than experience. questions.
- They enjoy humour.
Learn to laugh with them. Use
humour.
3 Social Characteristics want to be grown up Don't call them "children" Give responsibilities,
and independent of adults but still act childish but don't be disappointed if they act irresponsibly.
- want to belong to the gang and have a strong Respect their peer loyalty. Expect cliques.
sense of loyalty Encourage friendship. Direct their
Loyalty to the Lord.
- extremely self-conscious Avoid teasing or sarcastic remarks. They'll take
them seriously. Show each one that you care about
as individuals
- hero-worshippers Be worthy of their respect, but don't set yourself on
a pedestal. You might fall off.
4. Emotional Characteristics emotions intense Make special efforts to under- stand them. Avoid
and frequently fluctuate. have little control causing emotional disturbances. Don't schedule a
since closely tied to changes in their body. – noisy game before a serious prayer time; they wont
feel that no one understands them settle down quickly. Take time to talk to each one
personally. Show them that you appreciate their
uniqueness.
5. Spiritual Characteristics Show that the life of the Church and Bible truths
- Want practical religion are relevant to their situation.
- have religious doubts Doubts are part of the growing process. Welcome
them as a sign that they are making their faith their
own and not just something handed on. Give
honest answers.
- they seek ideals. Direct this desire to Christ and the ideals He sets
for us in the Scripture.
Carl Rogers and his students have developed a scheme of the fully functioning
person, generally referred to as “Self theory”. Rogers summarises this theory in the
outline below:
A. The individual has an inherent tendency towards actualising his organism.
B. The individual has the capacity and tendency to symbolise experiences
accurately in awareness.
• A corollary statement is that he has the capacity and tendency to keep his
self-concept congruent with his experience.
C. The individual has a need for positive regard.
D. The individual has a need for positive self-regard.
E. Tendencies A and B are most fully realised when needs C and D are met. More
specifically, tendencies A & B tend to be most fully realised when
1. The individual experiences unconditional positive regard from significant others.
2. The persuasiveness of the unconditional positive regard is made evident through
relationships marked by a complete and communicated empathetic understanding
of the
individual’s frame of reference.
F. If the conditions under E are met to a maximum degree, the individual who
experiences these conditions will be a fully functioning person.
Self-esteem
A person lives essentially in his own personal and subjective world. The picture he
has of himself is a more important determinant of psychological adjustment and
effective behaviour than childhood (Psychoanalysis) or environmental (Behaviourism)
stimuli... A person sees the world through the filter of his self, and therefore his view
of self will colour and influence what he does and does not see, and how he sees that
which he does.
RAISING SELF-ESTEEM
• Learning to accept oneself is a key building block in the structure of self-esteem.
One realistically assesses abilities and capitalises on strengths while recognising
weaknesses.
• Setting goals, making new contacts and risking new behaviour are ways of
utilising one’s potential.
• Since interpersonal relationships are among the most significant areas of
personal effectiveness, the atmosphere of trust and intimacy can provide an
ideal atmosphere for developing new interpersonal skills.
Stress should be places on the idea that one’s self-concept is learned and, therefore,
can be changed.
Conclusion
Do we put people off ‘private, do not trespass’ -be ready to take risks by
sharing - Start a movement of joy and creativity - This is the Good News of
Jesus. With Him begin this wonderful journey. ‘WE are an Easter people and
hallelujah is our song’.
SERENITY PRAYER
Reinhold Neibur
GOD GRANT ME THE
SERENITY
TO ACCEPT
THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE,
COURAGE
TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN.
AND WISDOM
TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS
AS A PATHWAY TO PEACE,
Song
If I were a butterfly, I'd thank you Lord for making my wings.
If I were a robin in the tree, I'd thank you Lord that I could sing.
If I were a fish in the sea, I'd wriggle my tail and giggle with glee.
But I just thank you Father for making me.
Clowns Prayer
(..In the museum gift shop there was this anonymous prayer..)
As I stumble through this life, help me to create more laughter than tears.
Never let me become so indifferent that I will fail to see the wonder in the eyes of a
child.
Never let me forget that my total effort is to cheer people, make them forget, at least
momentarily, the unpleasantness in their lives. And in my final moment, may I hear
you whisper:
“When you made My people smile, you made Me smile”.
What is Evangelization
18. ...The Church evangelizes when she seeks to convert, solely through the
divine power of the Message she proclaims, both the personal and collective
consciences of people, the activities in which they engage, and the lives and
concrete milieu which are theirs.
20. ...what matters is to evangelize man's culture and cultures always taking
the person as one's starting point and always coming back to the
relationships of people among themselves and
with God
The split between the Gospel and culture is without a doubt the drama
of our time, just as it was of other times.
21. Above all the Gospel must be proclaimed by witness. ....witness which
involves presence, sharing, solidarity, and which is an essential element, and
generally the first one, in evangelization.
All Christians are called to this witness, and in this way they can be
real evangelizers
22. Nevertheless this always remains insufficient, because even the finest
witness will prove ineffective in the long run if it is not explained,... There is no
true evangelization if the name, the teaching, the life, the promises, the
Kingdom and the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God are not
proclaimed. ... At every new phase of human history, the Church, constantly
gripped by the desire to evangelize, has but one preoccupation: whom to
send to proclaim the mystery of Jesus? In what way is this mystery to be
proclaimed? How can one ensure that it will resound and reach all those who
hear it?...
23. In fact the proclamation only reaches full development when it is listened
to, accepted and assimilated, and when it arouses a genuine adherence in
the one who has thus received it..... Such an adherence, which cannot remain
abstract and unincarnated, reveals itself concretely by a visible entry into a
community of believers. Thus those whose life has been transformed enter a
community which is itself a sign of transformation, a sign of newness of life,..
In the dynamism of evangelization, a person who accepts the Church as the
Word which saves normally translates it into the following acts: adherence to
the Church, and acceptance of the Sacraments, which manifest and support
this adherence through the grace which they confer.
NEW EVANGELIZATION
The Call "Look to the future with commitment to a New Evangelization, one
that is new in its fervour, new in its methods and new in its expression."
(Haiti, 1983)
"The Church can bear effective witness only where she is present as
humble servant of all in need. ... With eyes fixed on the beginning of a new
Christian millennium, the Church is called to renew her efforts to proclaim the
Good News of Salvation."
(Ad Limina Visit of Bishops of India, April 6 1989)
REDEMPTORIS MISSIO
3....No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme
duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
As I Am Sent Out
ROMANS 10:9-17 -