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Mission

The communities in which we work every day are now facing an economic and socio-cultural contest deeply in constant changing and strongly affected by economic uncertainty that weighs on the prospects for young people, families and businesses.

In this landscape so different from the past, parishes, dioceses, institutions and all organizations (profit and non-profit) that move within the ecclesial world attend on one hand an increase in the quantity, quality and complexity of pastoral actions; on the other hand, they find themselves to anticipate and face difficult situations to which they always manage to respond efficiently and effectively.

These include lack or arduous availability of financial resources, the consolidation of parishes and, simultaneously, with the shortage of vocations, the emergence of institutional activities more and more difficult to manage and market activities subject to increase competitive pressures from public and private subjects, the proliferation of communication tools and their users, the demanding management of laic qualified employees and the increase in value of local resources in order to transform them from cost to revenue opportunities.

 

 

Many young priests and pastoral workers are very generous, spiritually strong and work with passion, but they are not always able to resolve leadership problems … Take a look at the lives of the great Saints of charity that illuminate the history of the Church, from Don Bosco to Mother Theresa of Calcutta. Their love for the poor was so resourceful and innovative to make even the great Silicon Valley people jealous. Don Bosco was called “God’s entrepreneur”.

 

The Rector

Mons. Enrico dal Covolo

To face adequately this complex and changing reality with not only effective but also with pastoral wisdom, the discipline of Pastoral Management comes, which aims to:

 

  • Analyze and specify how to manage processes and organizational aspects that involve people and material and financial resources in a missionari key

  • Prevent and resolve restictions and obstacles related to economic situations profoundly changed and changing

  • Know how to innovate and create new pastoral opportunities

 

combining:

 

  • competence

  • professionalism

  • Gospel

  • Church Teaching

Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down … It will easily drift into a spiritual worldliness camouflaged by religious practices, unproductive meetings and empty talk.

(Evangelii Gaudium, 207)

 

Christians standing still: this harms, because what is still, what does not walk, spoils. Like still water, which is the first water to stagnate, water which doesn’t flow....

(private visit of the Holy Father to Caserta - Monday 28th of July 2014)

For us the Pastoral Management is the integration of the skills and strategies developed in the world of enterprise but applied and declined starting from the values, culture, style, language and attention that are inherent in who always puts at the center human dignity and the common good.

New approaches, methods and management techniques, not only organizational to prepare and go with them to play with skill, knowledge and professionalism its role.

Today many aspects of pastoral service - such as how to take care of the development of leadership, animation of the community and its growth, organization, the effective and transparent management of resources - have become true scientific knowledge. With our school we do not want to create a secularized pastoral lifestyle but simply add value to the elements of reasoning useful to the mission of faith. In providing greater tools of concrete action it will be possible to release the best of the pastoral energies, often imprisoned in problems or conflicts that become a risk that could hide the great beauty of the message of Salvation in the Gospels.

 

Giulio Carpi - Director of the School of Pastoral Management

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