Specific places dedicated to the young by the Christian community, such as oratories, youth centres and other similar structures, manifest the Church’s passion for education. They can take many forms, but they remain privileged spaces in which the Church becomes a welcoming home for adolescents and young adults, who can discover their talents and offer them in service. They transmit a very rich educational patrimony, to be shared on a large scale, to support families and civil society itself. In the context of a Church that looks outwards, though, a creative and flexible renewal of these realities is needed, moving away from the idea of static centres, to which the young can come, towards the idea of pastoral subjects moving with and towards the young, capable, that is, of meeting them in their ordinary places of life – school and the digital environment, existential peripheries, the rural world, the world of work, musical and artistic expression, etc. – generating a new type of apostolate that is more dynamic and active. Chapter III Renewed Missionary Vigour
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