Arco Norte

Twenty-eight lay people of Arco Norte and of the Cruz del Sur province began a course animated by a team of the Central-American Institute of Spirituality of the Company of Jesus, in order to provide modules of theoretical and practical formation, with historical-psycho-spiritual accompaniment tools.

This first initiative at a regional level comes from a proposal of the General Council for the design of a global framework for a Marist vocational process and has been promoted by the Commission of the Laity of the América Central province. The course includes two classroom modules of 13 days (2016 and 2017) and 9 months of experiencing spiritual exercises in ordinary life. The classroom modules offer a workshop on personal growth, elements of human and spiritual discernment, tools of psychological accompaniment and tools of spiritual and vocational accompaniment.

Participants belong to 12 countries and five Marist provinces. In some of the provinces, over 70 lay people are accompanied and follow a vocational itinerary.