Religious Formation Ministry Programme

Loreto House

 

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This programme offers outstanding opportunities for personal and ministerial growth in a cross-cultural setting. Since it was established in the early 1980's it has become renowned internationally for its excellence.

The programme is experiential, process oriented and intellectually challenging. It prepares people for change in ministry, emerging pastoral needs, initial and on-going formation. In addition the programme incorporates the best contemporary insights to give participants a vision of leadership which energises, renews and affirms them as they return to take up their roles at the end of the year.

 

 

 

The multinational mix of the group

adds a unique and enriching element

which is celebrated in

art, music, dance and cultural activities

The Process

We recognise that any effort at facilitating others and continuing to travel with them on their inner journey, presupposes that one has travelled the way oneself and has learned from that experience. The focus therefore in the programme is on the whom she or he may be called to minister.

The emphasis is on experiential learning. A group of mature people coming from many parts of the world enjoy a unique opportunity to share their diverse backgrounds, cultures and experience of God in their personal and ministerial lives.

The process of personal integration

is enhanced

by facilitated group reflection and dialogue,

individual counselling

and spiritual direction.

 

Liturgy, prayer,

relaxation

and enjoyable fun times

are integral to the life of the group.

Spirituality on which the programme is based

The RFM Programme came into being when apostolic communities were beginning to reap the fruits of an intensified search for renewal inspired by movements in the modern Church. We seek a spirituality which supports our understanding of what it means to be a pilgrim church, to hear the cry of the poor and to promote justice and peace. We risk being open to the Spirit in initiatives and decisions, in creativity in relationships and in the courage of commitment. We endeavour to understand more fully the dynamics of authority and creative leadership, to be healed, to be reconciled, to celebrate as brothers and sisters and to be sent out to proclaim the God we have come to know. Participants are helped to identify these experiences and will have the space and time for reflection, study and worship in which they can appropriate, deepen and communicate the values of the Gospel, experience the challenge of intercultural living, and struggle with issues of race, gender and care of the earth.

 

 

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