The Pastoral Formation Program is coordinated with and integrated into the spiritual and academic spheres of the Seminary. The program aims to provide seminarians with an opportunity for personal involvement in and practical exercise of the pastoral ministry. Learning through active engagement in the ministry is seen as an integral part of the total formation of the future priest, for it both draws from and further enriches academic and spiritual aspects of formation. Active pastoral involvement, when properly designed and supervised, is educational in nature.
Field work is thus a laboratory for learning through practice.
This program is coordinated by the Director of Pastoral Formation. During the academic program students take part in pastoral field placements. Students in the first year take a practical teaching course to prepare for teaching religion. This can include working in a parochial grammar school. High School ministry which involves classroom instruction, vocation programs, and assisting in students' service programs.