The main responsibilities of this position are threefold. Firstly, to direct and
oversee the human formation programme of the Seminary to ensure that it
provides the foundation for each seminarian’s overall priestly formation in
accord with the Ratio Nationalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis. This formation is
provided by being attentive to what emerges spontaneously within the
general circles of communal life, and by systematically providing specific
material to the seminarians throughout the stages of their formation.
Secondly, to develop a Human Formation Team which is comprised of the
Seminary Faculty in various capacities by confidentially resourcing the
formators with fundamental understandings of human development and
psychological insight relevant to each seminarian’s need for growth. Thirdly,
to provide an appropriate level of counselling to individual seminarians and
referring them to clinical psychologists when formal therapy is required.
Closing date: ASAP 2022 Position starts January 2023
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