Program of Priestly Formation (Ascension)

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Program of Priestly Formation

to the Church through consecrated life, in a fidelity and witness to the charism of their founder in the gift that is shared, 86 and upon those whose primary call is to be of Christlike service to the Catholic faithful through a commitment in obedience, simplicity of life, celibacy, and holiness.

86 See Sacred Congregation for Religious and for Secular Institutes/Sacred Congregation for Bishops, Mutuae Relationes ( Directives for the Mutual Relations Between Bishops and Religious in the Church , 1978); Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Directives on Formation in Religious Institutes (1990).

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