Saint Joseph’s Salesian Youth Renewal Center

Last Updated September 8, 2026

A Salesian retreat center is a center of popular spirituality, which can be of considerable importance in evangelization and in the process of education to the faith of the people and also of the young. Many of the centers of spirituality in our care are significant centers for the development and experience of salesian spirituality: centers for the spreading of Marian devotion, like the Sanctuary of Mary Help of Christians at Turin and very many others all over the world; places of communication and sharing of the salesian spirit through the figure of Don Bosco; centers of revitalization of Christian life through the liturgy, the Eucharist, the sacrament of Reconciliation, and prayer; reference points and places of pilgrimage for individuals and groups, large and small. This means that we must see to it that the work of retreats and spiritual renewal is of high quality and based on a pastoral project, which is strongly motivated and effective for the evangelization of people in general and of youth groups in particular. The following are important components of a center of renewal and spirituality: