By Mathias Hariyadi
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Forty theology students from STF Driyarkara Jakarta stepped into ordinary parish life on May 11, joining worshippers at Regina Caeli Church in North Jakarta in an effort to help future clergy and religious learn pastoral presence, silence, and liturgy in an increasingly distracted digital age.
The students, representing various religious congregations and diocesan backgrounds, participated in the Fifth Sunday of Easter Mass at Regina Caeli Church in Pantai Indah Kapuk Parish, serving as lectors, choir members, psalm readers, collectors, and other liturgical ministers.
The immersion was organized by Father Jacobus “Jack” Tarigan of the Archdiocese of Jakarta, who teaches theology at STF Driyarkara and also serves as associate pastor of the parish.
Instead of limiting seminarians and religious sisters to classroom instruction, Tarigan said he wanted students to experience pastoral ministry directly within a parish community.
“That is, into the Sunday Mass at PIK Parish, where I serve pastorally,” the priest told LiCAS News.
STF Driyarkara, founded in 1969, is a Jakarta-based philosophy and theology school attended by seminarians, religious sisters, and lay students from various congregations and dioceses.
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