Chapter, Paragraph, Number
1 Intro, 0,3| support for priests in their spiritual life and ministry.~This
2 I, 0,5 | society, recognize the deepest spiritual needs, determine the most
3 I, 0,5 | sacrament and the demands of the spiritual life which is consistent
4 I, 0,6 | rejection of the message of spiritual and religious values are
5 I, 0,7 | project which includes a spiritual and religious dimension
6 I, 0,8 | look for and to practice spiritual and religious values. The
7 I, 0,9 | search, for ethical and spiritual values. These naturally
8 I, 0,9 | their ministry, in their spiritual life and indeed in the very
9 II, 0,13 | covenant is established as "a spiritual house, a holy priesthood,
10 II, 0,13 | holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to
11 II, 0,13 | living stones" who build the spiritual edifice by keeping close
12 II, 0,18 | Council points out, "the spiritual gift which priests have
13 II, 0,18 | consecrating them as a spiritual temple and a holy priesthood
14 III | THE LORD IS UPON ME~The Spiritual Life of the Priest~
15 III, 0,19 | that a Christian life is a "spiritual life," that is, a life enlivened
16 III, 0,20 | synthesis of the priest's "spiritual life" and of the gift and
17 III, 0,20 | quality" of the priest's spiritual life. These are elements
18 III, 0,21 | and he is endowed with a "spiritual power" which is a share
19 III, 0,21 | sacrament of holy orders, the spiritual life of the priest is marked,
20 III, 0,21 | priest and victim. ~The spiritual existence of every priest
21 III, 0,21 | himself our servant."( 47)~The spiritual life of the ministers of
22 III, 0,22 | the Church."( 50) In his spiritual life, therefore, he is called
23 III, 0,23 | animates and guides the spiritual life of the priest inasmuch
24 III, 0,23 | indispensable for his harmony and spiritual balance. The Council reminds
25 III, 0,24 | The Spiritual Life in the Exercise of
26 III, 0,24 | exists between the priest's spiritual life and the exercise of
27 III, 0,24 | relation between a priest's spiritual life and the exercise of
28 III, 0,24 | ethos, and as a result the spiritual life, is none other than
29 III, 0,25 | 25. For a spiritual life that grows through
30 III, 0,25 | provides a focus for the spiritual life of the priest who carries
31 III, 0,25 | creating a series of moral and spiritual "dispositions" which correspond
32 III, 0,26 | bond between the priest's spiritual life and the exercise of
33 III, 0,26 | of his ministry and his spiritual life. The gift of grace
34 III, 0,26 | both in his ministry and spiritual life, belongs to the Eucharist,
35 III, 0,26 | is contained "the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely
36 III, 0,26 | each of them, the priest's spiritual life receives certain features.
37 III, 0,26 | Paenitentia: "The priest's spiritual and pastoral life, like
38 III, 0,26 | of the priest an intense spiritual life, filled with those
39 III, 0,27 | decisive for the pastoral and spiritual life of the priest, such
40 III, 0,28 | 38)."( 74) It is in the spiritual life of the priest that
41 III, 0,29 | as a singular source of spiritual fertility in the world."( 76)
42 III, 0,29 | biblical, theological and spiritual richness, as a precious
43 III, 0,29 | For an adequate priestly spiritual life, celibacy ought not
44 III, 0,29 | the moral, pastoral and spiritual demands of priestly celibacy
45 III, 0,31 | authentically Christian spiritual life, the spiritual life
46 III, 0,31 | Christian spiritual life, the spiritual life of the priest has an
47 III, 0,31 | purposes and meanings in the spiritual life of the priest by virtue
48 III, 0,31 | configuration of the priest and his spiritual life. In this sense, "incardination"
49 III, 0,31 | of attitudes as well as spiritual and pastoral decisions which
50 III, 0,31 | pastoral mission and his spiritual life. ~Other insights or
51 III, 0,31 | reference to other traditions of spiritual life can contribute to the
52 III, 0,31 | presbyterate with precious spiritual gifts. Such is the case
53 III, 0,31 | welcome priests into their spiritual family: from societies of
54 III, 0,31 | and from various forms of spiritual communion and sharing to
55 III, 0,31 | congregations represent a spiritual enrichment for the entire
56 III, 0,31 | constitutes part of the priest's spiritual life and continual practice
57 III, 0,32 | Council teaches that "the spiritual gift which priests received
58 III, 0,32 | It thus follows that the spiritual life of the priest should
59 III, 0,33 | the principal agent in our spiritual life. He creates our "new
60 III, 0,33 | For the development of the spiritual life it is essential to
61 III, 0,33 | which he will meet along his spiritual path.~Here I would repeat
62 IV, 0,35 | us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
63 IV, 0,40 | encouraging invitation to spiritual direction. It is necessary
64 IV, 0,40 | great tradition of personage spiritual guidance which has always
65 IV, 0,40 | and appreciate the gift of spiritual direction, to look for it
66 IV, 0,40 | of education and personal spiritual guidance: They will never
67 IV, 0,40 | 14-15), offering to God a spiritual worship acceptable to him (
68 V, 0,42 | material space, should be a spiritual place, a way of life, an
69 V, 0,42 | formation -- the human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral
70 V, 1,44 | physical, psychic and spiritual -- and which is expressed
71 V, 1,45 | Spiritual Formation: In Communion
72 V, 1,45 | finds its completion in spiritual formation. Every human being,
73 V, 1,45 | educational process of a spiritual life, seen as a relationship
74 V, 1,45 | and Christian experience, spiritual formation possesses the
75 V, 1,45 | attachment to the Church. Spiritual formation has its roots
76 V, 1,45 | paschal mystery."( 134)~Spiritual formation, as we have just
77 V, 1,45 | as for all the faithful spiritual formation is central and
78 V, 1,45 | too for every priest his spiritual formation is the core which
79 V, 1,45 | fathers state that "without spiritual formation pastoral formation
80 V, 1,45 | foundation"(135) and that spiritual formation is "an extremely
81 V, 1,45 | The essential content of spiritual formation specifically leading
82 V, 1,45 | decree Optatam Totius: "Spiritual formation...should be conducted
83 V, 1,46 | values and demands of the spiritual path trodden by the candidate
84 V, 1,46 | which is also the heart of spiritual life, with his allegory
85 V, 1,46 | Jn. 15:1, 4-5).~There are spiritual and religious values present
86 V, 1,46 | priests, through a suitable spiritual formation, have become deeply
87 V, 1,46 | points out a second great spiritual value: the search for Jesus. "
88 V, 1,46 | In a certain sense, the spiritual life of the person who is
89 V, 1,46 | seek Christ signify in the spiritual life? And where is he to
90 V, 1,46 | define the content of the spiritual formation of the candidate
91 V, 1,47 | An essential element of spiritual formation is the prayerful
92 V, 1,47 | primary value and demand of spiritual formation. Prayer should
93 V, 1,47 | value of silence as the spiritual atmosphere vital for perceiving
94 V, 1,48 | on which the whole of the spiritual life turns, is the gift
95 V, 1,48 | and, as a result, in the spiritual formation of candidates
96 V, 1,48 | urgent to rediscover within spiritual formation the beauty and
97 V, 1,48 | These are elements of the spiritual life which often prove to
98 V, 1,49 | 49. Spiritual formation also involves
99 V, 1,49 | seeking Christ in people.~The spiritual life is, indeed, an interior
100 V, 1,49 | From this point of view, spiritual formation has and should
101 V, 1,49 | found, in the program of spiritual formation of the future
102 V, 1,50 | 50. The spiritual formation of one who is
103 V, 1,50 | that is, for evangelical, spiritual and pastoral motives. The
104 V, 1,50 | together with the rectors and spiritual directors of the seminaries
105 V, 1,50 | under the direction of a spiritual father. The spiritual director
106 V, 1,50 | a spiritual father. The spiritual director should help the
107 V, 1,50 | regarding the evangelical, spiritual and pastoral reasons proper
108 V, 1,51 | expression of, both human and spiritual formation: It is a fundamental
109 V, 1,51 | their human, Christian, spiritual and vocational growth. In
110 V, 1,51 | word of God, grows in his spiritual life and prepares himself
111 V, 1,53 | will both nourish their spiritual life and guide them to carry
112 V, 1,53 | theology and formation in the spiritual life, in particular the
113 V, 1,53 | of research or from the spiritual tenor of prayer. St. Bonaventure
114 V, 1,53 | engage in speculation without spiritual Joy, or to be active if
115 V, 1,54 | dogmatic and moral theology, of spiritual theology, of canon law and
116 V, 1,57 | different aspects of human, spiritual and intellectual formation.
117 V, 1,57 | ensures that the human, spiritual and intellectual formation
118 V, 2,61 | to formation, the human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral
119 V, 2,62 | Christian, intellectual and spiritual preparation for the candidates
120 V, 2,62 | it be directed mainly to spiritual formation to discern the
121 V, 2,63 | the human, cultural and spiritual formation which will lead
122 V, 2,64 | such persons receive the spiritual and intellectual formation
123 V, 3,65 | ecclesiae," as a central spiritual and pastoral value in the
124 V, 3,66 | formation: the rector, the spiritual father or spiritual director,
125 V, 3,66 | the spiritual father or spiritual director, the superiors
126 V, 3,66 | professional, pedagogical, spiritual, human and theological,
127 V, 3,66 | of qualities: "human and spiritual maturity, pastoral experience,
128 V, 3,66 | feature of the ministry of the spiritual director, the priestly community
129 V, 3,66 | candidates in regard to their spiritual, human and intellectual
130 V, 3,68 | the domestic virtues and spiritual and material help, especially
131 V, 3,68 | product of the Christian, spiritual and apostolic experience
132 V, 3,68 | learn "respect for other spiritual paths and a spirit of dialogue
133 V, 3,68 | help to the ministry and spiritual life which are proper to
134 VI, 0,71 | aspects of formation human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral --
135 VI, 0,72 | formation of the priest in its spiritual dimension is required by
136 VI, 0,72 | ongoing formation in its spiritual aspect. This formation proves
137 VI, 0,72 | services, even if these are spiritual or sacred, or to a businesslike
138 VI, 0,74 | bond that is juridical, spiritual and pastoral. This awareness
139 VI, 0,74 | friendship, as well as the spiritual bonds which exist between
140 VI, 0,74 | forms of mutual assistance, spiritual and material as well. Priestly
141 VI, 0,74 | each institute and each spiritual tradition, broadens the
142 VI, 0,74 | whether in the intellectual, spiritual or pastoral areas. In this
143 VI, 0,77 | passion, reliving Paul's spiritual experience when he said, "
144 VI, 0,78 | in ensuring the human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral
145 VI, 0,78 | are simple and humble, the spiritual enthusiasm of people who
146 VI, 0,78 | draws from them a precious spiritual nourishment. Even the doubts,
147 VI, 0,80 | problems.~There are also spiritual gatherings for priests,
148 VI, 0,80 | gatherings for priests, such as spiritual exercises, days of recollection
149 VI, 0,80 | These are opportunities for spiritual and pastoral growth, in
150 VI, 0,80 | various elements of the spiritual, intellectual and apostolic
151 VI, 0,81 | useful not only for the spiritual life but also for the apostolic
152 VI, 0,81 | apostolic and pastoral life.~Spiritual direction too contributes
153 VI, 0,81 | of its value. It ensures spiritual formation. It fosters and
154 VI, 0,81 | election to the pontificate: "Spiritual direction has a wonderful
155 VI, 0,81 | indispensable for the moral and spiritual education of young people
156 VI, 0,81 | who receives it, it is a spiritual act of humility and trust."( 232)~
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