Formation Library

This Section contains the formative documents of the Church and the Congregation. You will find also booklets prepared by the General prefecture of formation in the past years. The article library contains articles on different themes on formation. You may download the required articles as guided by the link. You will also find links to Catholic information, resources and news.

General Plan of Formation

GPF can quite fittingly be considered as the Magna Carta on Formation that the Congregation, as mother and teacher, offers to its members, and above all to its new missionaries. It gathers up the core essentials of our missionary life and high lights its dimensions: charismatic, Christocentric, ecclesial, cordimarian, and human.

Initiation into the Missionary Life, Manual for the Claretian Novice

This manual presents the summary of the main topics and formation suggestions that the novices in the congregation must learn and assimilate during the novitiate.

Historical Notes on Formation in the Congregation

These notes are the fruits of the research by Fr. J.M Palacios cmf who has presented them in a book as an aid for Claretian formators so that they may come to know the partly scattered and forgotten tradition of our formative reality.

Claretian Year

Includes the daily itinerary of St. Anthony Mary Claret; History of the Congregation from its foundation to January 1, 2020; Important persons related to Claret and the Congregation; the Autobiography of Claret; Consitutions of the Congregation; selected Chapter Documents; daily reflection and quotable quotes.

Claretian Vocation Directory

“This Directory gathers together the most important points of reference, objectives, criteria, attitudes and options that must be present in an adequate pastoral approach to Claretian vocation ministry.

Initiation in the Ministry of the Word

Our formation should be a process of initiation in the ministry of the Word in such a way that the Word should become one of the hinges of the process of formation. IMW is a pedagogical tool geared to this goal.

Traces of Claret

A guide to the essentials to get to know the congregation of Claretian missionaries prepared by Fr. Vicente Sanz Tobes. It is a useful hand book of information about the congregation for missionaries in formation

The Claretian Formator

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BOOKLETS

26 Challenges of IFC
25 Encounter of the Prefects 2006
24 Voc Consistency & Fidelity Today
23 Inter Religious Dialogue
22 Formation, Canonical Aspects
21 Essential Chronology
20 Eucharist and Claretian Life
19 Formation and Martyrdom
18 Statutes of the Provincial Prefecture
17 The Forge
16 Prophetic Dimension of Formation
15 A Claretian Reading of the Word II
14 A Claretian Reading of the Word I
13 CMF in the Dynamic of Inculturation
12 Letter of General: CMF in Formation
11 Charismatic Foundation II
10 Charismatic Foundation I
9 Reality in the Congregation
8 Cordimarian Dimension
7 Formed in the Forge of Mary
6 Formation of Missionary Novices
5 Spiritual and Formative Texts II
4 Spiritual and Formative Texts I
3 Ongoing Formation in Claret
2 The Formation of Missionary Novices
1 The Formation of Missionaries

CHURCH DOCUMENTS

2014 Apostolic Letter to the Consecrated-Year of Consecrated Life
2014 Circular Letter to the Religious-Year of Consecrated Life
Papal Addresses on World Day of Consecrated life
2011 Reform of Ecclesiastical Studies of Philosophy
2011 Pope Benedict XVI-Internet in the Seminary Formation
2009 African Synod-Proposals related to Formation
2008 Guidelines for the Use of Psychology in Formation
2008 On Higher Institutes of Religious Sciences
2008 The Service of Authority and Obedience
2007 Aparecida- Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean
2005 Criteria for Discernment of Vocations-Homosexual Tendencies
2002 Starting Afresh from Christ
2001 Novo Millennio Ineunte
1998 On the Relationship between Faith and Reason
1998 Inter Institute Collaboration
1998 Formation of Permanent Deacons
1997 New Vocations for Europe
1996 Vita Consecrata
1996 On Admitting Candidates from Other seminaries
1994-1995 Papal Audiences on Consecrated Life
1994 Working Paper for Synod of Bishops on Consecrated Life
1994 Ordinatio Sacerdotalis
1994 Fraternal Life in Community
1994 Directory on the Ministry and Life of Priests
1993 Catechism of the Catholic Church
1993 On Preparation of Seminary Educators
1992 Pastores Dabo Vobis
1990 Directives on Formation
1990 Redemptoris Missio
1988 Virgin Mary in Intellectual and Spiritual Formation
1986 Formation and Social Communication
1986 Pope’s Message to Conference of Religious
1984 Redemptionis Donum
1983 Essential Elements in Religious Life
1983 Educational Guidance in Human Love
1983 Code of Canon Law
1980 On Spiritual Formation in Seminaries
1980 The Contemplative Dimension of Religious
1979 Liturgical Formation in Seminaries
1978 Religious and Human Formation
1978 Mutual Relations between Bishops and Religious
1974 Guidelines for Formation in Celibacy
1971 Evangelica Testificatio
1970 Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis
1967 On Celibacy of Priests
1966 Ecclesiae Sanctae
1965 Perfectae Caritatis
1965 Presbyterorum Ordinis
1965 Optatam Totius Decree on Priestly Training
1964 Lumen Gentium
1963 Paul VI-Summi dei Verbum
1961 On Selection and Training of Candidates to Religious life and priesthood
1959 John XXIII- Princeps Pastorum
1959 John XIII-Sacerdoti Nostri Primordia
1957 Pius XII- On the States of Perfection
1954 On Virginity
1950 Pius XII on Development of Holiness of Priestly life
1947 Pius XII-Provida Mater Ecclesia
1935 Pius XI on Catholic Priesthood
1926 Pius Xi-On Catholic Missions
1908 Pius X On Priestly Holiness
1879 On the Restoration of Christian Philosophy
1563 Trent on Seminary Formation
1215 IV Lateran Council
1179 III Lateran Council
460 Leo the Great

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FORMATION ARTICLES

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Here is a list of Folders of formation-related topics that contain many articles from various sources. When you click the topics, it will take you to a cloud drive from where you can download the articles which are of interest to you.