The Spiritual Formation of Seminarians: Learning to Live in Intimate and Unceasing Union with God

In this book, Deacon James Keating provides an opportunity for one spiritual director to introduce his mind to the minds of other directors with the hope that his ideas may season their own already developed method of direction.The book does not attend to all the possible realities a director may encounter within his or her training or within the daily execution of this ministry.Keating wishes to share his approach to directing seminarians by reflecting upon themes and experiences which regularly appear within direction sessions.Spiritual direction certainly has some universal components to it.All directors want their directees to internalize a habit of prayer, to choose a life of remaining with God, to suffer the vulnerability necessary to know divine love and to then embody that love as heralds of the Gospel.But each director approaches his or her directees from within their own skin, from within a personality that is unique, and by way of a formation that reflects the unique attract