Preface | p. xi |
Foreword | p. xv |
The “How” or the “Why” of Religious Life | p. xvi |
Discernment in the Face of Positive and Negative Experiences | p. xix |
Are Aptitudes Signs? | p. xxiv |
Attitudes of Those Responsible for Formation | p. xxv |
Certainty and Religious Life | p. xxvi |
Acknowledgments | p. xxix |
The Call to Religious Life | p. 1 |
From Whom Does the Call Come? | p. 1 |
The Mysterious Character of the Call | p. 2 |
God Calls by Means of the Events of One's Life | p. 4 |
The Basis of our Choices | p. 5 |
The Birth of a Desire | p. 7 |
Time for Thinking Things Over | p. 8 |
How to Discover the Call via Aspirations | p. 9 |
The Desire To Meet God and Set Out; an Exodus Spirituality | p. 10 |
The Signs Accompanying the Choice of Religious Life | p. 19 |
What is Discernment? | p. 19 |
Who is to Discern? | p. 20 |
Choosing on the Basis of Desires and Motivations | p. 21 |
The Desire to Encounter God A God Who Makes Sense of My Life | p. 22 |
The Desire to Live in a Group | p. 25 |
The Desire for a Change in Life, Conversion | p. 30 |
The Desire to Follow Jesus | p. 34 |
Trust in the Future | p. 35 |
Renunciation | p. 37 |
The Taste for Knowing and Learning | p. 38 |
Generosity | p. 39 |
The Quest for an Institutional Form of Life | p. 40 |
Conclusion | p. 42 |
Who Are the Young Today? | p. 43 |
A First Statement | p. 43 |
The Universe of the Young | p. 44 |
Values That Can Favor a Call to Religious Life | p. 47 |
What Are Young People Expecting from Us? | p. 49 |
Their Apprehensions | p. 52 |
The Fear of Commitment | p. 54 |
The Fear of Rules | p. 56 |
Some Reference Points for Formation | p. 57 |
Accompanying Vocations | p. 61 |
Motivations | p. 61 |
Elitism in Religious Life | p. 63 |
The Exercise of Compassion: Truth or Ideology | p. 65 |
The Candidate's Personal Background | p. 69 |
Vital Strengths of the Individual | p. 70 |
Purity of Intentions and Commitments | p. 73 |
Pre-Formation | p. 75 |
To Be Successful: A Gradual Entering | p. 75 |
The Family Background | p. 77 |
Pastoral Aptitudes or Psychotherapy | p. 78 |
The Pre-formation Steps | p. 81 |
Adaptation to Religious Life | p. 89 |
A New Phase: The Formation Itself | p. 89 |
Entry into Religious Life | p. 91 |
First Challenges | p. 98 |
Emotional life and sexuality | p. 121 |
Conclusion | p. 127 |
Persons in Charge of Formation and of the Community of Formation | p. 129 |
Introduction | p. 129 |
The ideal community | p. 130 |
A shared responsibility | p. 132 |
Who has to adapt? | p. 133 |
The person in charge of formation | p. 136 |
The relation between the person in charge of formation and the person in formation | p. 140 |
Religious culture | p. 142 |
Psychological accompaniment | p. 143 |
Training those in charge of formation | p. 143 |
Hopes and fears | p. 144 |
Conclusion | p. 147 |
Evaluation | p. 149 |
Introduction | p. 149 |
Some general considerations | p. 149 |
The candidate in formation | p. 151 |
The evaluation report to the community and the council | p. 154 |
An evaluation of the programs | p. 157 |
Pastoral Work with Vocations | p. 159 |
The Mysterious Choices of God Exerted on Men | p. 159 |
Developing a Positive Attitude towards our Way of Life | p. 161 |
A visible community | p. 163 |
An open community | p. 165 |
Praying Communities | p. 167 |
Take time to live | p. 168 |
Conclusion | p. 169 |
Bibliography | p. 171 |
Endnotes | p. 173 |
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