Formation Meeting at Blackfriars

28th March 2019

The prior and community hosted formators from across the English speaking world for their annual meeting to share experiences of formation and plan future collaboration. The Vocations Promoters, Masters of Novices, and Masters of Students from the four American provinces as well as Irish and English provinces met for talks given by the Abbot of Mount St Bernard’s on discernment and formation in a monastic context.

Close collaboration has existed for a long time between the English and Irish provinces, with Irish students sometimes being sent to study at Blackfriars. The weekend also nurtured the growing collaboration between the English province and the Western US province.

Pray for Vocations

Formators have a unique responsibility in the Order as they nurture the future of their provinces; training new men in the religious life, and, for clerical brothers communicating, the great joy of priestly ministry in the Church. Please pray for them, those they form, and for vocations to our Order.

Lord, send us priests; Lord, send us holy priests; Lord, send us many holy priests!