Diploma in Religious Formation

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    A Proposed Pre-Novitiate Formation Project For the Province of Mother of The Greatest Love Of the Canossian Daughters of Charity
    (Tangaza University College, 2005) Kuen Rita, Chung Sau
    In the year 2002, the General Council of the Canossian Sisters established a new Province in Africa — the Province of Mother of the Greatest Love. It is composed of three countries: Egypt, the Sudan and Uganda. The presence of our Sisters in these lands gradually attracted young women to join our Congregation. There is thus a growing need for the ministry of Initial Formation. Being new. the Province has no well established formation program of its own. The Sisters in the formation ministry have been using the formation program of the Province of Eastern Africa. Though there are commonalities among the African cultures, each country is distinct from the others historically and socially. Egypt and Sudan are Arabic countries and have a strong Islamic cultural background. These factors make the new Province very different from the Province of Eastern Africa and the new Province is becoming more and more aware of the need of a sound. localized, and inculturated formation throughout all stages of Religious Life. The vvriter of this project was involved in formation work in the Province and tbund it very challenging. This work is the result of her two years study of Spirituaiity and Religious Formation. The objective of this work is to present to the Province a more developed and concrete plan of Pre-Novitiate formation. It is based on what is said about formation in the Rule of Life, the Canossian Plan of Formation. the Plan of Formation of the Province of Eastern Africa. and the documents of the Church. In addition. it takes into consideration the historical. cultural and social background of the candidates. It aims to be a useful tool to help formators and formation communities as they are entrusted with the important ministry of shaping the future of the Province and the Congregation. Religious formation is a life long process. It begins with the Pre-Novitiate formation and continues with the Novitiate, the juniorate and the on-going formation until one comes to the end of the battle of life. A well established formation plan should cover all the stages of formation, thus showing the graduality and continuity of the whole process. Nonetheless, due to the time factor, this work can only address the first stage. that of the Pre-Novitiate formation, Knowing that theory and ideal need to be confronted and tested by the reality of life, the writer sincerely welcomes suggestions and comments from those who read it or use it. It is the hope of the writer that this work will be an inspiration to others for future contributions to the completion of the whole plan of formation for the new Province.
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    A Pre-Novitiate Formation Programme Project For The Divine Word Missionaries
    (Tangaza University College, 2005-03) Lima, Carlos Vieira
    Formation constitutes an essential element of religious and missionary life. "The Church, together with Congregations of men and women religious, considers formation a top priority. As a result, much re-search, reflection, evaluation, revision and revitalization of formation programmes has taken place, not least with our own Society.-I The formulation of the vision and goal of formation, coupled with the structuring and re-structuring of formation programmes, pre-supposes a number of critical questions being asked by the Society. Who can be admitted to religious missionary life? Who are being formed? How are they being formed? What are they being formed for? What approach should be taken? What model? The structure? The over-all vision?2 It was in view of these concerns that this formation programme project was undertaken. The aim of this project is to design a formation programme that can offer a framework, which will assist those working in formation at this particular stage, Pre- Novitiate, as well as at other stages of formation in the Society of the Divine Word, in the Kenya-Tanzania Province. The choice of the topic was made based on two elements: the first one is my own experience in formation work in the Pre-Novitiate, since December 2001; the second element was the request by the Provincial Superior to organize a formation handbook containing all the levels of formation in the Province. As I work in the Pre- Novitiate stage, I was entrusted with the responsibility of designing the Pre-Novitiate formation programme. I gladly accepted the task and chose the topic "A Pre-Novitiate Formation Programme" as the object of research of my project. This Formation Programme consists of five major sections. Section one starts with the issue of the nature of the Congregation, its aims and Spirituality. It spells out the aims, goals, nature, objectives and purpose of formation in general in the Society of the Divine Word. It also spells out the constitutive elements of the SVD identity, namely, Spiritual. Communitarian, Religious, Academic, Affective, Missionary and Physical dimensions. Section two focuses on the nature and purpose of the Pre-Novitiate stage and the essential elements of the rationale of the Pre-Novitiate programme. There are five areas or axis of formation considered essential to assist the candidate in his journey of personal growth and vocational discernment. These are: the Human, the Christian and Spiritual, the Religious and SVD, the Missionary, and the Academic formation. Section three occupies with the contents and the means of formation, and with some characteristic activities. Section four deals with the issues of those who are responsible for formation, the evaluation of the formation programme and the assessment of the candidate. Section five starts with the candidate's role in the formation process. It continues with some recommendations based on practical experiences and on the outcome of the research process/exercise. It is followed by the conclusion with few remarks and observations. In the end there is an appendix.
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    A Proposed Pre-Novitiate Formation Project
    (Tangaza University College, 2005-03-21) kuen Rita, Chung sau
    In the year . 2002, the General Council of the Canossian Sisters established a new Province in Africa — the Province of Mother of the Greatest Love. It is composed of three countries: Egypt. the Sudan and Uganda. The presence of our Sisters in these lands gradually attracted young women to join our Congregation. There is thus a growing need for the ministry of Initial Formation. Being new. the Province has no well established formation program of its own. The Sisters in the formation ministry have been using the formation program of the Province of Eastern Africa. Though there are commonalities among the African cultures, each country is distinct from the others historically and socially. Egypt and Sudan are Arabic countries and have a strong Islamic cultural background. These factors make the new Province very different from the Province of Eastern Africa and the new Province is becoming more and more aware of the need of a sound, localized, and inculturated formation throughout alt stages of Religious Life. The writer of this project was involved in formation work in the Province and found it very challenging. This work is the result of her two years study of Spirituality and Religious Formation. The objective of this work is to present to the Province a more developed and concrete plan of Pre-Novitiate formation. It is based on what is said about formation in the Rule of Life. the Canossian Plan of Formation. the Plan of Formation of the Province of Eastern Africa. and the documents of the Church. In addition, it takes into consideration the historical. cultural and social background of the candidates. It aims to be a useful tool to help formators and formation communities as they are entrusted with the important ministry of shaping the future of the Province and the Congregation. Religious formation is a life long process. It begins with the Pre-Novitiate formation and continues with the Novitiate, the juniorate and the on-going formation until one comes to the end of the battle of life. A well established formation plan should cover all the stages of formation, thus showing the graduality and continuity of the whole process. Nonetheless, due to the time factor, this work can only address the first stage, that of the Pre-Novitiate formation. Knowing that theory and ideal need to be confronted and tested by the reality of life, the writer sincerely welcomes suggestions and comments from those who read it or use it. It is the hope of the writer that this work will be an inspiration to others for future contributions to the completion of the whole plan of formation for the new Province.
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    A Pre-Novitiate Formation Programme Project For The Divine Word Missionaries
    (Tangaza University College, 2005-03) Lima, Carlos Vieira
    Formation constitutes an essential element of religious and missionary life. "The Church, together with Congregations of men and women religious, considers formation a top priority. As a result, much re-search, reflection, evaluation, revision and revitalization of formation programmes has taken place, not least with our own Society."1 The formulation of the vision and goal of formation, coupled with the structuring and re-structuring of formation programmes, pre-supposes a number of critical questions being asked by the Society. Who can be admitted to religious missionary life? Who are being formed? How are they being formed? What are they being formed for? What approach should be taken? What model? The structure? The over-all vision?2 It was in view of these concerns that this formation programme project was undertaken. The aim of this project is to design a formation programme that can offer a framework, which will assist those working in formation at this particular stage, Pre- Novitiate, as well as at other stages of formation in the Society of the Divine Word, in the Kenya-Tanzania Province. The choice of the topic was made based on two elements: the first one is my own experience in formation work in the Pre-Novitiate, since December 2001; the second element was the request by the Provincial Superior to organize a formation handbook containing all the levels of formation in the Province. As I work in the Pre- Novitiate stage, I was entrusted with the responsibility of designing the Pre-Novitiate formation programme I gladly accepted the task and chose the topic "A Pre-Novitiate Formation Programme" as the object of research of my project. This Formation Programme consists of five major sections. Section one starts with the issue of the nature of the Congregation, its aims and Spirituality. It spells out the aims, goals, nature, objectives and purpose of formation in general in the Society of the Divine Word. It also spells out the constitutive elements of the SVD identity, namely, Spiritual, Communitarian, Religious, Academic, Affective, Missionary and Physical dimensions. Section two focuses on the nature and purpose of the Pre-Novitiate stage and the essential elements of the rationale of the Pre-Novitiate programme. There are five areas or axis of formation considered essential to assist the candidate in his journey of personal growth and vocational discernment. These are: the Human, the Christian and Spiritual. the Religious and SVD, the Missionary, and the Academic formation. Section three occupies with the contents and the means of formation, and with some characteristic activities. Section four deals with the issues of those who are responsible for formation, the evaluation of the formation programme and the assessment of the candidate. Section five starts with the candidate's role in the formation process. It continues with some recommendations based on practical experiences and on the outcome of the research process/exercise. It is followed by the conclusion with few remarks and observations. In the end there is an appendix.