El Camino Program
This propaedeutic program offers an excellent opportunity to initiate men into seminary formation under the guidance of an extensive and experienced staff.
While our constant goal has been to provide the very best priests, our means of attaining that goal has necessarily changed, attentive always to the mind of the Church and the signs of the times.
Throughout the years, the U.S. bishops have offered concrete guidelines for formation through their periodic revision of the Program of Priestly Formation. In 2022, the bishops offered seminaries the sixth edition of this document with some major changes in procedures and vocabulary, all in the spirit of St. John Paul’s Pastores Dabo Vobis.
Based upon the changes to seminary formation expressed in the sixth edition of the Program of Priestly Formation, Saint Meinrad has responded with a propaedeutic formation program and a vocational synthesis program. Saint Meinrad’s El Camino program for seminarians new to formation. This propaedeutic program, already underway at Saint Meinrad, offers an excellent opportunity to initiate men into seminary formation under the guidance of an extensive and experienced staff.
The Emmaus Program is Saint Meinrad’s program for assisting dioceses and religious communities with the Vocational Synthesis stage of formation. The transition back to life and ministry in the diocese or religious community will be facilitated and amplified through offering essential training and evaluation for those moving into the parish-based model for the transitional diaconate.
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