Pope John Paul II describes seminary formation as,
 “A continuation in the Church of the apostolic community gathered about Jesus, listening to his word, proceeding towards the Easter experience, awaiting the gift of the Spirit for the mission.”
The Church continues to place the highest value on the work of priestly formation, because it is linked to the very mission of the Church, especially the evangelization of humanity: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19).

            Keeping in mind the value and the importance of the priestly formation and to increase the quality of the priestly formation we convoked the first Formation Forum meeting of this  academic year on 09th, September,2016 at 09:00 am at the Provincialate. As the saying goes, “Every moment is the start of the next big things in life” we started the moments of the meeting with a Prayer-filled and Grace-Filled half an hour of adoration, conducted by Rev. Fr. Arockia Selvam. Good many of the members of the formation forum participated in the meeting in the presence of Rev. Fr. Antony Dharmaraj, Our Provincial and Rev. Fr. Deivasakayaraj, the Councillor in charge for formation. The discussions of the meeting were based on;

•   Graded Formation in all the stages of  formation
•   Common Syllabus in all our formation houses
•  Human Formation
•   The Postulants programme   in our minor seminary

We concluded the meeting at 01:00 pm by singing a Hymn to our Mother Mary.

Thanks to all the participants.
“God always calls his priests from specific human and ecclesial contexts, which inevitably influence them; and to these same contexts the priest is sent for the service of Christ’s Gospel” (Pastores dabo vobis, no. 5).
By Fr. Sheen