International missionary formation centers
CIFM
CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE FORMATION MISSIONNAIRE MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC, CANADA
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Why join the CIFM ?
- To know oneself better and for personal growth
- For a spiritual journey and a deepening of one’s faith
- To verify one’s call to missionary life abroad or clarify it more thoroughly.
The CIFM is first a life center
Intercultural communitarian life
- Openness to dialogue by welcoming differences
- Formation
- Insertion activities in the surrounding environment
- Spiritual accompaniment with experienced missionaries.
A stage at the CIFM ?
- For men and women aged between 20 and 40 years old, who wish to deepen a missionary life project and commit themselves to work abroad for a number of years in the name of their faith.
- A nine (9) months stage asking for an interruption of work or studies
- Short stages for specified needs.
Note : the Center is also opened to those who sense that they are being called to become missionary priests and wish to verify or deepen that call.
Write to us :
Raymond Desrochers, p.m.é,
8055, avenue Casgrain
Montréal (Québec)
H2R 1Z4
Telephone : (514) 383-3694
CFAM
MISSIONARY FORMATION AND ANIMATION CENTER
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS
Why the CFAM ?
To form young adults of Central America, the Caribbean and South America for the mission abroad.
For a Christian life experience among an international community.
Before joining the CFAM...
- To have already realised a missionary journey
- To have followed a program of missionary formation as a group
- To have been involved in an apostolic activity in one’s country.
The stage at the CFAM
- A whole year with the interruption of one’s work or studies during the stage
- Deepening of one’s faith
- Formation to mission
- Training in personal prayer
- Spiritual accompaniment
- Apostolic activities realised as a team.
After the stage at the CFAM
- One can express his/ her availability to leave for the mission for a few years and ask for his/ her association with the Foreign Mission Society. The choice of the country is left to the authorities of the Society.
Write to us :
Beatriz Medina
Apartado postal 3137
Tegucigalpa, M.D.C. 11101
Honduras, C.A.
Phone: 011-504-239-1900
CFAM Director for 2010: María Beatriz Medina
Email: cfam.cemac@gmail.com
Visit the CFAM website. (in Spanish): http://cfamcemac.weebly.com/
NAIROBI, KENYA
A CENTER OF FORMATION FOR THE FUTURE MISSIONARY PRIESTS
BY Bernard Duquette, p.m.é.
Since 1991, our Society has decidedly chosen to live by giving itself concrete means : foundation of the CIFM in 1992 and of the CFAM in1996, one month of missionary discernment in Honduras every two years, opening up to the internationalisation of its members in 1997, creation of the missionary group of Kenya in 2001.
Today, 17 years later, we are harvesting the fruits. Nearly 30 lay missionaries are working with us as associates. And without having explicitly looked for it, young people felt a call to missionary priesthood, choosing a long formation scattered with new challenges, but to which they are responding with enthusiasm. We already had 2 ordinations to the priesthood and in 5 years, we could count on 7 new p.m.é. priests, something not seen since 1978! Would it be reasonable to throw in the towel now when the Lord is sending us workers to take over from a part of the abundant harvest sowed since 1921 ?
On of the new challenges faced by the candidates in formation is certainly that of the learning of many languages within a relatively short period. We are aware that this new challenge is a consequence of our international opening up. In Kenya for example, English is the language used in our group even if it is not the first language of anyone among us (Spanish, French, Arabic, Kiswahili…). From my personal experience with young people, I can see that a true missionary vocation is never afraid of challenges. On the contrary, these challenges stimulate and propel forward that missionary vocation.