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Fr. Patrick Finn's avatar

As far as liturgical and other formation for transitional deacons during the synthesis stage, I could see it being useful for seminaries to host periodic “reunions” or “training weeks” back on the seminary campuses. Some seminaries are clearly more prepared for some of these things than others. I went to Saint Meinrad for their Associate Pastor Workshop the year after I was ordained a priest and found it very helpful and fruitful: it is intended to help “newly ordained priests make a seamless transition into parish ministry, addressing the practical tasks and challenges, spiritual concerns, identity and accountability issues inherent within this transition” (https://saintmeinrad.edu/priests-ongoing-formation/effective-pastoring-workshops/). Of the 16 or so if us who attended, I was one of two who did not go there for theology. It continues to strike me as very odd that more seminaries don’t have this kind of program on the books, because it would not be terribly resource intensive for seminaries to host this kind of program. Under PPF 6, this sounds like the sort of program that would belong to the Vocational Synthesis stage, though adapted for diaconate.

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Joe's avatar

So will seminarians who enter straight from high school now have to do the propaeduetic year before going to college?

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