Building Integrity for Mission
See What’s On in our 2023 Program!We are pleased to present Heart of Life’s 2023 Program of courses and events. Whether you’re seeking to: undertake spiritual formation through one of our formation programs, participate in a 14-week seminar for professional and/or Read More …
newsletter n.22 – 02/2023 – Available also in FR – PT – ES – IT Dear brothers and sisters in ChristWe have reached the culminating moment of the Continental Stage: the continental synodal assemblies. We begin already on Sunday with the start of the synodal assemblies for Europe and Oceania. From Read More …
CLDG-Canon Law Legal Education 2023 Formation légale Good morning, I write to you this morning in my position of Coordinator of the program « LEGAL EDUCATION for Leadership of Religious Institutes and their Lay Collaborators”, a canonical formation program which Read More …
Oblate School of Theology MtM Participant Testimonials Ministry to Ministers Sabbatical Program Jesus said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” (Mark 6:31) The Ministry to Ministers (MtM) Sabbatical Program provides a sabbatical Read More …
From the Director’s Desk…Welcome to our first eNews of 2023. It’s a bumper first edition! In 2023, we celebrate 40 years of service. Keep an eye on our eNews and social media for special events in which you can participate to Read More …
I would like to present for your consideration the activities of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, with our Licentiate and Doctoral programs in Theology of Marriage and Family, the Licentiate and Doctorate in Read More …
Registration now open for the Multilingual Course on Synodality promoted by the Evangelii Gaudium Centre It is with a first introductory lecture entrusted to Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod, on 17 January 2023 that the multilingual course on synodality promoted by the Evangelii Gaudium Centre Read More …
The next MSC Ongoing Formation facilitators training course will be held face to face, 4-18 June 2023, at the Ursuline Convent, Via Nomentana, Rome. This training course is for Ongoing Formation facilitators or coordinators in your province, union, or region. More information will be provided next year. Expressions of interest are welcome now!! get in early.
If we understand Spirituality of the Heart as the underpinning structure of our lives, we see that it shapes and colours our perceptions and actions. While at the centre of our life and prayer our spirituality is more than a devotion, more than a theology; its movements are part of the human experience and give us a way of seeing ourselves and our mission in relation to God. In July 2022 the MSC Indonesian Province brought its younger men together in Bali for two weeks of Ongoing Formation [OGF]. Here there are three video presentations, produced by the wonderful media office of the province, on the content of that OGF.
Pope Francis’ Motu proprio, establishes new procedures for reporting abuse and violence. The document covers not only violence and abuse against children, but also abuse of authority. This includes cases of violence against religious by clerics, as well as abuse committed against adult seminarians or novices. One way to protect people is to provide good them with training in being assertive, so that they can challenge unacceptable behaviours, or to feel confident to report them to authorities. This article discusses assertiveness and what it involves.