The female face of the marist network

The contribution of marist youth ministry animators to the vitality of the charism

Abstract

The article deals with the way in which the animators of the Marist Youth Ministry (PJM) visualize the participation of women in the Catholic Church, Marist Network and, consequently, in the group experience they experience together with other adolescents and young people. As a central objective, the proposal is to understand how the service they perform contributes to the vitality of the institutional charisma. For purposes of theoretical basis, it was approached in the reference: mariology and Marian Church, making use of, among other authors, Murad (2020), Riccordi (2017) and Pope Francis (2013, 2016, 2019, 2020); the presence of women in the public life of Jesus with Boff (2011) and CNBB (2021); Marist charism with Tiecher (2019) and Strobino (2019). The methodology used a qualitative approach by completing an online questionnaire. From this, the study concludes by highlighting that the young women contribute signifi cantly to the perpetuation of the way of being and acting of Saint Marcellin Champagnat and points out ways for the way of living this charism to be even more perennial in the spaces of mission of the Marist Network.