Configured to Christ: On Spiritual Direction and Clergy Formation

The best clerical formation today prepares men to be divinely loved in their humanity. In Configured to Christ: On Spiritual Direction and Clergy Formation, Deacon James Keating shares what makes a priest or deacon peaceful, personally happy, and—to the extent he keeps receiving the love of God in prayer as a man of interiority and sacrament—a minister of God’s love to his people. This volume includes the following essays: Part I: The Interior Life of the Cleric Theology as Thinking in Prayer Newman: Theologian of Prayer I Will Not Leave You Orphans Spiritual Direction: Navigate Your Life Toward God Part II: The Formation of the Cleric The Seminary and Western Culture: Relationships That Promote Recovery and Holiness From Fantasy to Contemplation: Seminarians and Formation in a Paschal Imagination Christ Is the Sure Foundation: Priestly Human Formation Completed in and by Spiritual Formation Human Formation and Communion with Christ Seminary Formation and Interior Silence Beyond Schooling: Seminaries, Integral Formation, and the Role of Academics Teaching Seminary Theology Real Celibacy Is an Invitation from Divine Beauty The Deacon: Identity and Holiness Part III: The Pastoral Mission of the Cleric Contemplative Homiletics Contemplative Homiletics: Being Carried into Reality Growing in Love of the Lay Life: Evangelising Martyrs Teaching Parishioners to Pray The Eucharistic and the Healing of Affection for Sin

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