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Profiles<\/h2>\n

Approach<\/a> | Evocations<\/a> | Landscape<\/a> |\u00a0Vision<\/a><\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” anchor=”approach” text_align=”left” padding_top=”75″ padding_bottom=”75″ css_animation=”” el_id=”approach”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text el_class=”ttl”]<\/p>\n

Approach<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”small” position=”right” color=”#424242″ thickness=”2″ up=”16″ down=”16″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]The \u2018Map Year\u2019 offers two semesters of serious intellectual study, probing the reading material discursively, even conversationally, in a seminar format. We call to aid a multitude of authors, always seeking to understand their motivating questions and lines of reflection, rather than merely noting their conclusions.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner]

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What do the seminarians study?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Areas of Study ><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=”element_from_fade”][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”evocations” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”75″ padding_bottom=”75″ css_animation=”element_from_fade” el_id=”evocations”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text el_class=”ttl”]<\/p>\n

Evocations<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”small” position=”right” color=”#424242″ thickness=”2″ up=”16″ down=”16″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]The end of our study is to promote a flexibility of mind adequate to discover how faith, drawing from the past, thereby roots itself ever more deeply in the present. Such an attitude was, arguably, the origin of the creative serenity that inspired such bold Catholic apostolates as Fr Tompkins and Fr Coady\u2019s Antigonish Movement, Catherine de Hueck Doherty\u2019s Madonna House, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin\u2019s Catholic Worker, Frank Sheed\u2019s Catholic Evidence Guild, Jacques and Ra\u00efssa Maritain\u2019s Thomist Circles, Pius Parsch\u2019s Liturgical Apostolate, the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd developed by Maria Montessori\u2019s disciple Sofia Cavalletti, as well as the scores of young men who beat a path to the doors of monasteries in pursuit of the Trappist vision Thomas Merton disclosed.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=”element_from_fade”][vc_column][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”15926,15928,15927,15925″ img_size=”600×600″ column_number=”4″ grayscale=”yes” images_space=”gallery_without_space”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”landscape” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”75″ padding_bottom=”75″ css_animation=”element_from_fade” el_id=”landscape”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text el_class=”ttl”]<\/p>\n

Landscape<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”small” position=”right” color=”#424242″ thickness=”2″ up=”16″ down=”16″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Our physical setting, likewise, promotes engagement with the contemporary world and actual parish life, for our seminary is no ivory tower or country estate. \u00a0It is located on the premises of the Toronto Oratory, which serves two inner-city parishes and numerous surrounding extended-care facilities. Here seminarians assist with parish ministry, participate in parish liturgy, are trained to sing in the parish choir, share a common table with the Oratorian Fathers and Brothers, and receive regular spiritual guidance.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=”element_from_fade”][vc_column][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16154,15929,15931,16155″ img_size=”600×600″ column_number=”4″ grayscale=”yes” images_space=”gallery_without_space”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”vision” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”75″ css_animation=”element_from_fade” el_id=”vision”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text el_class=”ttl”]<\/p>\n

Vision<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”small” position=”right” color=”#424242″ thickness=”2″ up=”16″ down=”16″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]A bishop, religious superior, or vocations director will have noted that enrolling in the \u2018Map Year\u2019 delays a seminarian\u2019s ordination and adds to his educational expenditure. Is it worth it? Our students think so. This is study with a difference. It begins to give seminarians a more comprehensive grasp of the \u2018strange city\u2019 to which Newman alluded. It is \u2018worth it\u2019 if students are confirmed in their vocations and acquire the confidence to navigate the present without anxiety.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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