Spiritual Formation

• The Unavoidable Mystical Dimension of Christianity
• The Prophetic Dimension of Christianity
• John Paul II: Can Holiness be Planned?
• Today We Make Saints Randomly
• The Way for the Council’s Renewal
• The Importance of Leading a Spiritual Life
• Sunday, Day of Formation
• The Apostolate of the Dominican and that of the Carmelite

• Rebuilding the Christian Soil, Saint Benedict, the Third Mansions, and the Formation of a Christian Civilisation
• The Five Pillars of Spiritual Formation
• Spiritual Formation as a Journey
• Catechesis vs. Spiritual Formation
• Spiritual Doctrine and the Universal Call to Holiness, Why Complete Formation Matters for Every Christian
• A New Vocation in the Church: Spiritual Formator
• “Spiritual Formation” vs. “Spiritual Director” in the Church
• The Shepherd Taught at Length
• Catechising and Making Disciples
• Spiritual Formation – God’s Domain
• Reforming Spiritual Theology
• The Signs of the Times: A Call to Read the Gospel in Depth
• The Next Trent: Constructing a Universal Spiritual Formation for the People of God

• Spiritual Theology vs. Theology
• Spiritual Theology: The Science of Love
• Defining Spiritual Theology
• The Conditions of Vatican II’s Call for Renewal
• Moving From one Theology to the Other
• More Articles: Learning Spiritual Theology
• A Proven Doctrine Of Acquiring Perfection
• Teaching How to Contemplate
• “Spiritual Growth”, from “I Want to See God”, Bl. Marie-Eugene (especially “B. Mystery of Growth“)
• The Severed Pedagogy: The Loss of Practical Knowledge in Spiritual Formation and the Recovery of the Grammar of Acts
• Elijah, Moses, Carmel and Access to God: A Refoundation of the Covenant
• A Renewed Formation Brings a Renewed Carmel, On the Integrated Vision of the Spiritual Journey That Contemplative Formation Needs Today
• Consecrated Life and the Lost Map of the Spiritual Journey: Recovering the Hidden Fruitfulness of Union with Christ

Ecclesia, Magistra Perfectionis

• Church Reform and Spiritual Formation
• The Direction of Spiritual Life Today: From Monastic Stability to Interior Transformation, An Analysis of Spiritual Formation and the Universal Call to Holiness
• Spain: A Prophetic Sign of True Reform, How Spiritual Renewal Shielded a Nation from Schism and Offers a Key to Reading Church History
• Duc in Altum, The Call to Holiness, A Letter to the Pope (Book)

Priestly Formation

• Articles On Priestly Formation
• Book: “Priestly Formation, Towards a Sapiential Vision”, Book Amazon USA – Amazon UK
• A Three-Days Program for Heads of Seminaries and Directors of Formation: “Formation From Above: Spiritual Life as the Unifying Principle of Priestly Formation.”

More Articles

• Reforming Spiritual Formation 
• The Call to Holiness as the Core of Christian Life 
• Spiritual Formation
• The Urgent Imperative: Spiritual Formation as the Church’s Foundational Response
• The Direction of Spiritual Life Today: From Monastic Stability to Interior Transformation: An Analysis of Spiritual Formation and the Universal Call to Holiness
• A Model for Renewed Spiritual Formation: The School of Mary’s Experience
• The “Solid Foundations” Course: A Practical Illustration
• Reforming Spiritual Theology? 
• Reforming Theology: A Call for Deeper Engagement
• Transfiguration of the Church 
• Evangelisation and Fruitfulness
• Synodality and Spiritual Formation
• Entering the Garden: Spiritual Theology as the Criterion of Philosophical and Theological Formation
• The Formation of Future Priests: From the Institution to the Formation Programme
• Church Reform and Spiritual Formation. Reform “From Above” and Its Limits: Church Councils Before the Reformation (1215–1517)
• The Context of French Spirituality in the Seventeenth Century
• Spain: A Prophetic Sign of True Reform: How Spiritual Renewal Shielded a Nation from Schism and Offers a Key to Reading Church History
• Mary and the Formation of the Priest (Bernard Pitaud P.S.S.)
• The Transfiguration of the Parish
• “The Poor Are Dying of Hunger for the Word of God”: Reforming Seminary and Ongoing Priestly Formation
• One Shepherd, One Charity, The Inner Unity of Priestly Life and the Sapiential Renewal of Theology
• ‘In Persona Christi Pastoris’, What Is Unique About Spiritual Direction Given by a Priest
• Formation From Above: Spiritual Life as the Unifying Principle of Priestly Formation. A Three-Day Program for Heads of Seminaries and Directors of Formation
• By Their Fruits: Rethinking the Measure, the Root, and the Method of Priestly Formation
• You Go Into the Vineyard Too The Eleventh Hour, the Mystery of Readiness, and the Theology of Synergy in Matthew 20:1–16
• Breathing the Breath of God: The Fulfilment of the First Commandment and the Transformation of Christian Life
• ‘I Will Be Their Shepherd’: The Transformation of the Steward of the Mysteries of God
• ‘Solitude Before Serving’ in Priestly Formation
• The Straight Word of Truth, Theology, Preaching, and the Direct Path to God
• The Art of Salvation: The Hidden Science at the Heart of Priestly Formation
• Marian Centrality in the Ecclesial and Priestly Vision of Jean-Jacques Olier: A Forgotten Axis of Clerical Formation       More developed here.

• The Epiphany of “The Church of The Desert” (Spiritual Ecclesiology: The meaning of the Prophetic branch of the Church)
• The Prophetic Creed   (See also asa video Powerpoint)
• The Transfiguration of the Parish
• Reflections on the Deacon‘s Vocation
• The Deacon as Herald of the Gospel: Lectio Divina as the Foundation for Gospel Faithfulness, Teaching, and Witness
• The Bishop, ‘Master of Perfection’
• The Bishop, Builder of the Church
• Spiritual Formation: The Essential Priority for Renewing Religious Life
• The Prophetic Office of the Church I/II (see video)
• The Prophetic Office of the Church II/II (see video)
• Regarding the Functions of the Church: John Henry Newman, Preface of the Third Edition of his book “Via Media”.
• Finding Our Way in Spiritual Life (Video Playlist)
• From the “Thinking Reed” to the Unconscious Self
• Vatican III? Not Yet. Why the Renewal of Spiritual Theology is the Real Condition for a Council
• The River of Living Tradition: Progressive Understanding of the Mystery of Christ and Transmission of Salvation
• Recovering the Spiritual Living Tradition of the Church
• Understanding the Actual State of Spiritual Theology. Two Prisms for Reading Its History, and the Yardstick by Which It Must Be Measured.

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The School of Mary

• The Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Formation
• The Implementation Of Spiritual Formation in the School of Mary
• A Short Guide to the School of Mary
• The School of Mary Statutes
• The School of Mary and Religious Life
• Is The School of Mary a Charism?
• Our Lady Of Mount Carmel And The School Of Mary
• Celebrating Our Lady of Mount Carmel        Watch the Video also
• Therese Co-Patroness of the School of Mary
• Spiritual Formation and The School of Mary

• The Corner Stone of Spiritual Formation: Solid Foundations 000
• More on Solid Foundations 000
• Is the Solid Foundations Course 000 for Everybody?
• Solid Foundations of Spiritual Life: Setting the Language for a Responsible Spiritual Relationship with Christ
• What Comes After SF000?
• A Letter for Students on the Solid Foundations Course
• Three+ Years Formation Plan
• Testimonials

Spiritual Theology

– Theology, Spiritual Theology, and the Question of Method

– When the Old System Collapses, Will the New One Appear? Theological Method, Spiritual Crisis, and the Path Forward (I/II)

– Spiritual Doctrine and the Universal Call to Holiness, Why Complete Formation Matters for Every Christian (II/II)

– Origen and the Birth of Mystical Theology: The Architecture of the Mystical Life Before “Mystical Theology”

– From the Unity of Theology and Spiritual Life to Three Theological Threads, Monastic Theology, Scholastic Theology and the Dionysian Tradition of Mystical Theology

– Mystical Theology as a True Form of Theology: From Dionysius to John of the Cross