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Priestly Formation - Intellectual Formation
St. John's Seminary School of Theology exists primarily to prepare and recommend candidates for ordination to the ministerial priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church. It offers a program at a graduate professional level designed to foster the students' understanding and personal assimilation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as expressed in the Tradition of the Church and found it in doctriinal and spiritual traditions. It intends thereby to promote their development for the ministry of word, sacrament, and pastoral care.
The goal of the academic program at St. John's Seminary is to promote serious intellectual inquiry into and mastery of the essential aspects of Catholic religious tradition and of ways of living the Catholic faith in daily life.
Through study, students come to understand and assimilate the Catholic faith as proposed and safeguarded by the magisterium of the Church. The study of philosophy and the humanities prepares for the study of theology. Together, students come to understand and appreciate the task of theology by identifying the Catholic synthesis of faith and reason.
The academic program also seeks to help seminarians as Catholic believers acquire a basic competence with regard to the history of the Catholic Church and the content of the Church's religious tradition.
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Priestly Formation
127 Lake St. Brighton MA 02135 (617) 254-2610