Chapter, §
1 1 | emphasized the priority of a formation particularly attentive to
2 1 | regard to complete ongoing formation; but I want to focus in
3 2 | study as a means of integral formation and as a path of asceticism
4 2 | study had in the crowning formation of the three years at the
5 3 | must be met by an adequate formation to the new requirements".
6 3 | day, it is stated: "The formation aims at rendering the individuals
7 3 | therefore that the new level of formation is not motivated by lack
8 3, 3| presentation of the Gospel, formation to prayer and celebration,
9 3, 3| cultural and professional formation therefore seems indispensable
10 3, 3| with regard to priestly formation, in addition to what we
11 3, 3| quality of their intellectual formation in their educational and
12 3, 3| high level of intellectual formation, such as will enable priests
13 3, 4| large part on spiritual formation, on the cultural vision
14 3, 5| we may add to these the formation communities, which always
15 3, 5| processes and in salesian formation and spirituality.~And I
16 4 | training, and improving initial formation on the basis of the experience
17 4 | the risk of sacrificing formation to the urgent needs of the
18 4 | the moral and intellectual formation of our clerics". "In practice",
19 4 | sacrificed, and with them the formation of the young confreres.~
20 4 | Connected with this need for formation", wrote Fr Ricceri, "there
21 4 | and extending of ongoing formation and the foundation of new
22 5 | there are provinces with formation communities and qualified
23 5 | real priority investment in formation; how to shape a process
24 5 | formando", governing by formation. We are aware that governance
25 6 | preferential investment in formation meant in practical terms. "
26 6 | financial resources for formation is a task which is of importance
27 7, 3| for confreres prepared for formation communities in emerging
28 7, 3| organic plan for the ongoing formation of the confreres with a
29 7, 4| cultural dimension of initial formation~The formation of the Salesian
30 7, 4| of initial formation~The formation of the Salesian is not limited
31 7, 4| years in our reflections on formation. "It is necessary", declares
32 7, 4| philosophical and cultural formation which is more solid and
33 7, 4| importance of intellectual formation and where necessary restore
34 7, 4| preparation during the initial formation phase". I will refer to
35 7, 4| those responsible for their formation.~The first is aimed at "
36 7, 4| awareness. The initial phases of formation, in addition to leaving
37 7, 4| study, a plan for further formation and the conviction that
38 7, 4| verify and adapt intellectual formation (set-up, programs, methods
39 7, 4| concerned in intellectual formation to "emphasize the salesian
40 7, 4| confreres, who during initial formation devote a great deal of time
41 7, 4| and complete intellectual formation is more urgently necessary
42 7, 4| call it, in intellectual formation pays no dividends in any
43 8, 1| and world level, of which formation is one of the first.~We
44 8, 2| themselves centres for the formation of persons and the elaboration
45 8, 3| direct incidence on the formation of confreres, and in others
46 8, 3| own study centre for the formation of the confreres and to
47 8, 3| of confreres in initial formation who frequent centres in
48 8, 3| decisive than that of other formation guides; one cannot therefore
49 8, 3| delegate" the intellectual formation of young Salesians.~Similar
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