Spiritual Formation
Preparing: Spiritual Friends, Spiritual Directors, Spiritual Companions
For a Global Community
Vision
We are created with the capacity to seek and to find God. Spirituality is the totality of our responses to this perceived call of God. Spirituality is integrated into the whole complexity of human life.
Purpose
- To increase knowledge of theology, history and literature of the mystics
- To nurture one’s own faith and to aid in the process of spiritual formation
- To enter into an active discernment process of the call to spiritual companioning or the ministry of spiritual direction
- To follow the lead of the Spiritual Mentors - saints, mystics and spiritual teachers of the Christian Tradition - and the invitation of the Dominican Family over the centuries, to receive and soak in the Word of God allowing God the Holy Spirit to bring forth fruits so that all, everyone and everything, is drawn to God through the Holy Preaching
Designed for
Some preparation programs train people for work or ministry by giving them the skills and practices to manage the external realities. Dominican Center at Marywood's Spiritual Formation Program prepares people with skills and contemplative practices for tending the inner journey.
. . . transformation of the person
for transformation of the world.
The program will especially benefit people for whom spiritual guidance or spiritual friendship and companioning are auxiliary or new to their ministry; ministers, pastors, pastoral ministers, pastoral care chaplains, mental health workers, campus ministers, nursing and medical professionals, religious education directors, parish visitation volunteers, and R.C.I.A. team members, many of whom have received ministry training but wish to deepen and grow in their interior freedom and oneness with God.
ACCREDITED BY
Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan and
a P.R.I.M.E. relationship with Graduate Theological Foundation
Aquinas College
Aquinas College for credit, please contact Nancy Brousseau, OP at 1(800)253-7343, ext.137 or (616)643-0137 by August 10, 2006. Arrangements for credit cannot be made once the program begins.
www.aquinas.edu/theology/scholarships.html
Phase I: 3 credits
Phase II 2-year Practicum: 3 credits
Additional cost:
Undergraduate: $192 per credit
Graduate: $215 per credit
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Doctor of Ministry
in Spiritual Direction Degree
Dominican Center is a P.R.I.M.E. (Partnering Resources in Ministry Education) relationship with the Graduate Theological Foundation in South Bend, Indiana.
www.gtfeducation.org/
All work taken in the Spiritual Formation Program at DCM will earn credit towards Foundation D.Min. degrees in spirituality, spiritual direction, and pastoral care.
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