APPROACH TO FORMATION 

1. Directional

• Providing opportunities for encounter with self, others, God and the world.
• Making resources available.
• Facilitating the process of self-transformation.
• Enabling them to discern their Vocation.
• Assisting the students to discern personal charism and integrate it with the Charism of the Congregation.

2. Inspirational

• Witness of personal life.
• Challenging and supportive presence.
• Personal maturity and integrity.
• Sharing experience of God, commitment, Priesthood / Brotherhood, mission.
• Witness of personal prayer life.
• Witness of lived apostolic spirit.
• Witness of personal values, integrated with professed values.

3. Educational

• Providing academic information and necessary intellectual input.
• Giving values and value clarification.
• Developing necessary skills.
• Offering professional training for our specific apostolate.
• Performing one's duties as an expression of mission.
• Giving pastoral orientation.

4. Transformational

• Facilitating growth at various levels.
• Facilitating clarity and integration of values and attitudes.
• Clarifying and deepening motivations.
• Encouraging personal maturity and responsibility.
• Fostering tolerance towards shortcomings, failures, etc.

Facilitating freedom – freeing self from within and without.