Tuesday, January 4, 2022

4 characteristic elements of formation (ratio fundamentalis 2016)

 1. one 2. integral 3. grounded in community 4. missionary in spirit

1&2 = single integrated & continuous

3 = vocation is discovered & accepted within a COMMUNITY, it is formed in the context of an educating community to belong to the family of the presbyterate at the service of a particular community

4 = the seminarian is taken from and given back to a christian community to server & guide as pastor to participate in the one mission entrusted by Christ to His church, i.e. EVANGELIZATIONin all its forms

goal of formation: "to form MISSIONARY disciples who are 'in love" with the Master, shepherds 'with the smell of the sheep' who live in their midst to bring the MERCY of God to them.

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