AMS Ministry Discernment and Charisms - Cat AMS 201

Advanced Ministry Studies

CATECHETICAL MINISTRY YEAR

Ministry, Discernment and Charisms

Course Description:

This course will help participants to become more active in the Catholic faith and to become apostles, disciples, missionary disciples  and go out on a mission.    

Course Learning Objectives:          

1. Participants will distinguish the terms Vocation, Ministry and Apostolate 
2. Particpants will learn the role of discerment in the self-life of a minister and as pastoral minister.  
3. Participants will reflect and understand the general process of discerment and become familiar with discerment tools. 
4. Participants will reflect on the Discermenbt of Charisms: What makes a charism different of talents and abilities. 
5. Participants will reflect on recognizing unique chrisms.  
6. Participants will understand the importance of collaboration and Sinodality. 

SESSION: Cat AMS 201

Date: Saturday August 26, 2023  

Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (Breaks and Lunch time included)  

Format: Zoom Live Class 

Professors: Fr. Fr. Frank Donio, S.A.C. and Catholic Apostolate Center Staff - Collaborators   

Fr. Frank S. Donio, S.A.C., D.Min. is Founding Director of the Catholic Apostolate Center and a member of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottine Fathers and Brothers). He is also Executive Director of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men of the United States (CMSM). His academic background, teaching, presenting, pastoral, and administrative work are focused primarily on evangelization, spiritual formation, and pastoral practice that fosters greater co-responsibility and collaboration among all the baptized.

He holds additional provincial, national, and international leadership positions in the Pallottines and in the Union of Catholic Apostolate (UAC), an international public association of the faithful founded by St. Vincent Pallotti in 1835. Fr. Frank is former Provincial Rector of the Immaculate Conception Province of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate. Some of his other prior assignments include Provincial Director of Formation, Pastoral Director of St. Jude Shrine in Baltimore, MD and Chaplain of Bishop Eustace Preparatory School in Pennsauken, NJ.

Notes: 

• Please register as soon as posible as this course requires pre-reading material.
• This class is eligible for ongoing formation. Those not registered in the Advanced Ministry Studies but would like to take the class as ongoing formation please use discount code: CatAMS201 for a 50% discount.