General
Bishop Jorge Carlos Patron Wong's Selection, Screening and Formation (2012)
Symposium Toward Healing and Renewal, held at the Pontifical Gregorian University, February 6-9, 2012
Candidates for the Priesthood and Religious Life: Selection, Screening and Formation by Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong, Coadjutor Bishop of Papantla, México
Pope Benedict XVI has pointed out that the change of era which we are living through is generating an “educational emergency”. One can perceive a difficulty in transmitting the fundamental values of a human and Christian existence to the new generations.
In the midst of this secularised and relativistic society, we do find areas which give reason for hope and which are full of work and effort for a Church which is more faithful to the Gospel. Among these privileged areas, where the holy spirit is invigorating various modes of life like “mustard seeds”, are seminaries and houses of formation. I shall list some of these glimmers of light which are already developing in our seminaries.