The XXI General Chapter proposed as its motto for the 2018-2024 six-year term the mandate of the Apostle Paul to the Christian Community of Rome: Practice Hospitality. Based on this imperative, the General Commission of the YPV (Youth Pastoral Vocational) , of Sisters Hospitallers, begins its work by making the question its own: how to “embody a pastoral in the key of mission that commits us to be bold and creative in the task of rethinking the objectives, the structures, the style and the evangelizing methods of our hospitable vocational youth ministry ”?

Priorities and Strategic Lines of the YPV 2021-2024

This is the motivation behind the PJVH 2021-2024 Priorities and Strategic Lines document, in which five priorities are identified at the congregational level:

Being where the young people are, encouraging their participation in planning, carrying out a more open and inclusive youth ministry of hospital vocations, promoting vocational culture and promoting accompaniment and processes.

One of the strategies that arise from these options is to promote, throughout the Congregation, greater participation in the World Youth Day (WYD) that will take place in Lisbon (Portugal) in the year 2023.

With our sisters present in Portugal, together with the Brothers of San Juan de Dios and the Juventude Hospitaleira Movement, we are accompanying and participating in the initiatives that are programmed at the Church level with a view to this day.

Our challenge is to promote a path of participation, between Sisters and young people, towards this important youth ecclesial event in the various Provinces and Delegations of the Congregation. Surely we will do it from the dioceses and the proposals that are proposed to us at the Church level, which become an opportunity to approach the youth world from the charism and hospital spirituality.