HUMAN FORMATION IN MAJOR SEMINARIES

Seminar cum Workshop 10-13 February 2017 Dharmaram College, Bangalore

Abstract

Dharmaram College, on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of its foundation in Bangalore in 1957, conducted a four-day national level seminar cum workshop (10-13 February, 2017) on ―Human Formation in Major Seminaries,‖ to appreciate and celebrate the gift of priesthood and to evaluate the effectiveness of human formation, and its relation to the intellectual, spiritual and pastoral formation, so that we have ‗shepherds after the heart of the Good Shepherd.‘ It was a providential coincidence that the seminar began on the birthday of St Kuriakose Elias Chavara who gave pioneering services in the field of priestly formation, beginning with the foundation of a seminary in 1833 at Mannanam, even before the community was canonically established in 1855.