By LiCAS.news
VIETNAM – More than 100 women religious from Northern Vietnam completed a weeklong formation course designed to strengthen their capacity to guide candidates in religious life, amid growing calls for more professional and spiritually rooted formation within congregations.
Held from May 11-18 at the Pastoral Center of the Diocese of Hải Phòng, the intensive training brought together 108 sisters from 10 congregations, one monastery, five associations, one society of apostolic life, and one institute of consecrated life.
It was organized by the Executive Committee of the Union of Women Religious Congregations of Northern Vietnam, according to the Vietnamese Bishops’ Conference.
“With the hope that each congregation’s trainees may receive appropriate and quality formation,” the committee said in a statement, “we organized this ongoing formation course for formation leaders.”
The program focused on three core areas: deep psychology and anthropology in religious formation, spiritual accompaniment centered on spousal love for Christ, and renewed engagement with the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Sr Teresa Vũ Thị Ảnh, a member of the Lovers of the Holy Cross of Phát Diệm and an expert in the psychology of consecrated life, opened the course with a comprehensive session on the psychological and anthropological dimensions of religious formation.
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