SPIRITUS Formation

As most of you probably already know SPIRITUS is a ministry aimed at reaching the young people of Wisconsin through running retreats for various parishes and schools, but what some of you might not know is that the secondary mission of SPIRITUS is to help form the young adults on the team into fired-up young leaders.  One way we are formed into leaders prepared to lead the future generations of Catholics is through what we call “Formation”, now I know that is not the most clever of names but it helps us team members remember what we are there for.  During the week we usually have Thursdays as our days of Formation, we do not run any retreats but we have speakers give us talks about various topics.  The speakers are usually priests around the diocese but we also do have laymen and women give talks as well. Two Thursdays a month we have what is called Cor Jesu in Green Bay and young adults in the area are more than welcome to attend, and what we do at Cor Jesu is listen to an hour long talk and then have exposition of the Blessed Sacrament for an hour.   On top of the talks, the SPIRITUS team reads different books throughout the year that we discuss typically on Thursdays as well.  These books are typically more spiritual in nature and help us to connect our prayer lives with our ministry is some respect.  The formation aspect of SPIRITUS is not just limited to a talk or two a week and discussing a book once a week.  Through living in community, running retreats, interactions with students and D.R.E’s and most importantly prayer are the other ways in which the members of SPIRITUS are formed into the young adult leaders that the Catholic Church needs at this moment in it’s over 2000 year history.  As we continue to be formed please keep us in prayer and know of our prayers for the people of the Wisconsin whom we come in contact with.  God Bless!

-Mike