Building Integrity for Mission
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.
The International Leadership Development Program organized by Faith and Praxis in 2023 will be a multilingual program with simultaneous translation. Please find flyers in three languages with detailed information and see if the program might be of your interest. Also, please forward this email to any members of leadership teams that you think might benefit from this formation.
We are an international residential Centre for training in leadership and spiritual. personal and relational development of lay Christians, priests and members of religious communities. We welcome mature participants from all over the world. There are around 60-100 participants each year for the Diploma and Certificate programs. The programs are full-time and residential.
For the 2022-23 academic year thee Angelicum is inaugurating the St. Catherine of Siena Scholarship Program, which we are starting to provide financial support for religious sisters who want to study at the University. The scholarship recipients will relocate to Rome for one year to study in one of three 1-year diploma programs in Theolgy and Formation.
Heart of Life Centre for Spiritual and Pastoral Formation, Melbourne Australia. Retreats, programs, courses for Winter.
“The drama of loneliness, of the feeling of being alone, is consuming many presbyteries,” lamented the head of the Catholic Church.
SEDOS Residential Seminar 2022 at House of the Divine Master, ARICCIA (ROME), and ONLINE
Monday, 9 May – Friday, 13 May 2022. On the theme of FORMATION FOR MISSION.
Heart of Life Spiritual and Pastoral Formation Centre, Program 2022. Check out what is on offer.