To be appointed in a formation setting would not default make one a formator. If that were the criterion then perhaps, our staff members who are serving the community for nearly 22 years are better formators than anyone else!
To be a formator one ought to be able to help the young grow in their vocation. Now that word 'vocation' could be understood narrowly in the sense that of the consecrated life or religious life or in a broader and better sense to mean, vocation to life.
It struck me yesterday evening that to be a formator of religious or consecrated life, would demand of me that I am first able to form young people in their vocation to life. How can I form vocation to consecrated life, if I have no idea or clue or interest in helping young people appreciate life... life in its basic form, in its human form?
Human life, Christian life, Consecrated life are concentric circles and not merely intersecting circles. To reach the inner, more challenging aspect of Consecrated life, I ought to go through human and Christian life.
To be a formator one ought to be able to help the young grow in their vocation. Now that word 'vocation' could be understood narrowly in the sense that of the consecrated life or religious life or in a broader and better sense to mean, vocation to life.
It struck me yesterday evening that to be a formator of religious or consecrated life, would demand of me that I am first able to form young people in their vocation to life. How can I form vocation to consecrated life, if I have no idea or clue or interest in helping young people appreciate life... life in its basic form, in its human form?
Human life, Christian life, Consecrated life are concentric circles and not merely intersecting circles. To reach the inner, more challenging aspect of Consecrated life, I ought to go through human and Christian life.
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