El acompañamiento comunitario en la formación sacerdotal

Abstract

Community accompaniment is mentioned both in the Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis and in the Priestly Formation Plan, something that represents a certain novelty in the training process of seminarians. It is necessary to specify what this community support consists of, since neither of the two documents specifies it. The community dimension of seminary formation
has always been necessary, because it has to do with the essence of the ordained ministry, but today it becomes even more urgent, due to various influencing factors. Social psychology is an instrument that can help establish a series of criteria to make a community of seminarians a truly formative instrument that helps the candidate in his vocational discernment and forms him as a missionary disciple, since these are the two purposes of all accompaniment.