Missionary Formation

Missionary formation programs

INTERCOMMUNITARIAN PROGRAM OF MISSIONNARY FORMATION ( PIFM )

FOR WHOM ?

For any person between 20 and 40 years of age or more who wants to become an associate of a missionary institute to work in the name of his/ her Christian faith in the mission abroad and in international.solidarity.

FOLLOWING WHICH PATH ?

First stage : discernment

Verify one’s motivations
Discover in-depth one’s identity at the human, spiritual and missionary levels.

Second stage : deepening

Discover the basics of the missionary vocation.
Acquire the practical tools related to the missionary commitment.

WHERE ?

A- In MONTRÉAL

First and second stage for the Montreal group:

- at the central house of the Foreign Mission Society,
- 180, Place Juge-Desnoyers, Laval (Pont-Viau), QC

WHEN ?

One monthly week-end between September and April.

	PIFM: 1
	2010
1	September 24-25-26, 2010
2	October 23-24, 2010
3	November 13-14, 2010
4	December 11-12, 2010
	(Christmas celebration on the 11th)

	2011
5	January 15-16, 2011
6	February 11-12-13, 2011
7	March 12-13, 2011
8	April 9-10, 2011
9	April 29-30 + May 1, 2011
	Easter on April 24 in 2011

	PIFM: 2
	2010
1	September 11-12, 2010
2	October 2-3, 2010
3	November 6-7, 2010
4	Dicember 3-4-5, 2010
	(Christmas celebration on the 11th)

	2011
5	January 15-16, 2011
6	February 5-6, 2011
7	March 5-6, 2011
8	March 26-27 2011
9	April 16, 2011
	Easter on April 24 in 2011

B- IN QUEBEC

First stage for the Quebec group:
- In a community house in Québec, Sainte Foy district.

- In Québec, formation is offered in partnership with the Laval University. It is now possible to earn 3 university credits at the department of Theology and Religious Sciences

WHEN ?

	2010
1	September 25-26, 2010
2	October 16-17, 2010
3	November 13, 2010
4	Dicember 11-12, 2010

	2011
5	January 15-16, 2011
6	February 5, 2011
7	February 6, 2011: "convivencia"
8	February 26-27, 2011
9	March 19-20, 2011
10	April 9-10, 2011

INFO ?

In Montreal :

Intercommunitarian Program of Missionnary Formation (PIFM)

M. Jean Binette, p.m.é.

8055, avenue Casgrain,
Montréal (Québec)
Canada H2R 1Z4

Telephone : (514) 383-3694

jean_binette@yahoo.ca

In Québec :

M. Christian Busset
867, rue Rochette,
Québec (Québec)
Canada G1V 2S6

Telephone: (418) 527-3273
E-mail: smerochette@videotron.ca