The Ongoing Formation Course for Formators was held from 17th to 22nd February 2019 at NavSadhana Regional Pastoral Centre. The Resource Person, Rev. Fr. Snehanand IMS, focused on the theme – “Towards a new approach to formation in the Third Millennium”. He highlighted the problems connected with formation, it’s faith perspective, it’s goal, recruitment and areas of formation. He threw light on the human, spiritual, intellectual, and cultural formation in Mission, Leadership Training, Community and Formators.
The participants felt that the whole course enabled them to be effective formators and empowered persons as they are in the world, where money, media and technology explosions have come to define the contemporary age; where the realities such as globalization, liberalization, privatization, individualism, fundamentalism, communalism, consumerism, and terrorism are encountered in daily life. He stressed the need of paradigm shift in formation and religious life. They also felt that they have been enlivened to be ‘souls on fire’ and be the ‘wind beneath the winds of the formees’. They realized that the formation is ‘caught and not taught’ and its orientation must be a vital process that centered on the Person of Christ the Lord for transformation, transparency, transfiguration and transcendence.
