Program of Priestly Formation (Ascension)

Index

O

release of priests for seminary apostolate of, 424, 434 seminary governance responsibility of, 98, 157, 161, 407–414, 420 Marialis Cultus , 326 marital status, determining, 84 marriage and family, study in. See Configuration Stage Mary, devotion to, 43d., 229i., 256 medical-moral ethics, study of. See Configuration Stage mentors first pastoral assignments and, 403 in formation, 200, 293, 370h., 371 metaphysics, study of. See Discipleship Stage Ministeria Quaedam , 173 ministries of acolyte and lector, 136, 173–174, 177 Misericordiae Vultus , 24n33 Missiology, study in. See Configuration Stage missionary dimension of pastoral formation, 3–4, 14, 29, 36, 370c. mission statements of seminaries, 421 moral relativism in U.S. society, 18–20 moral theology and ethics, study in. See Configuration Stage, Discipleship Stage Mutuae Relationes (1978), 49 mutual trust, importance of in formation relationships, 75, 91–92, 95, 97, 98, 101, 119, 141, 165, 191, 208, 220, 431, 436

Oath of Fidelity

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diaconate and, ordination to, 174 priest formators and professors and, 466 priesthood and, ordination to, 176 rectors and, 437

obedience

human formation and, 219–221

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