Promoting virtue as a task

Sr. Celia reporting for another group:

• There are things which need to be understood in the task of promoting virtue:
o The desire for God is already present
o Often we cannot articulate it for another person
o The person must come to their own articulation of this hunger
o Perhaps virtues can offer a language, words to frame their experience
o Our challenge is to lead them beyond concepts to commitment
o An important task is to lead people to make a connection between their goodness and holiness
o It is a challenge to relate such holiness to youth (See “Soul Searching”)
o At the level of peers this task is one thing; at the level of adults, there is a need for wisdom and mentoring
o Wisdom figures are needed for sharing experiences
o Specific training that may be necessary in these tasks of promotion could include training to give talks to groups, training of student leaders, offering skills which last a life time (e.g. DSM, CMU)
o Ministers must develop their own skills and their development is a mutual need along with the need to offer development to others
o Such training is not simply skills orientation but life formation!
Br. Tho reporting for another group: