January 08, 2016   |   Read Online

Diaconate Weekend #5 – Let's Pray for Each Other

This weekend is a diaconate formation weekend for my classmates and me. We’ll be studying “Prayer & Sacramental Participation”.

I’m going to try to remember to share when I’m away on these weekends, and ask you, in the charity of your own prayers, to please lift my classmates and me up in your prayers during these formation weekends.

In turn, I will be remembering you and keeping your intentions in prayer during our Holy Hour on the Friday night of the weekends. If there’s a particular intention you’d like me to keep in prayer, please comment with it here or message it to me privately.

N.B.: This first year is an introductory year – the four years that follow carry more intense college-level academic studies. This year’s topics include:

• September: Introduction to Discernment

• October: Introduction to Theological Reflection

• November: Introduction to Spiritual Direction

• December: Pastoral Identity, Skills, and Boundaries

• January: Prayer & Sacramental Participation

• February: Evangelization & Ecumenism

• March: Research & Writing

• April & May: Philosophy (formal academic coursework begins)

• June: Retreat

September: Introduction to Discernment

October: Introduction to Theological Reflection

November: Introduction to Spiritual Direction

December: Pastoral Identity, Skills, and Boundaries

January: Prayer & Sacramental Participation

February: Evangelization & Ecumenism

March: Research & Writing

April & May: Philosophy (formal academic coursework begins)

June: Retreat

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