Realizowanie podstawowych zasad formacyjnych w Wyższym Seminarium Duchownym Diecezji Ełckiej w latach 2012-2022

Abstract

The article is a study devoted to the implementation of the formation principles at the Theological Seminary in Ełk in the years 2012-2022. The first part presents the personal structure of the Seminar. Based on the cited data, it turned out that the most variable element of the seminar structure is the decreasing number of alumni. The team of formators and the group of lecturers, which also underwent modifications, constituted a relatively stable construct. The second part deals with the means and ways of implementing the formation principles in force at the Higher Theological Seminary in Ełk. These principles were included in the formation document for the seminaries of the Church in Poland (1999). Each of the four dimensions of formation (human, spiritual, intellectual, pastoral) was governed by its own rules. Based on the study, it should be said that to a greater or lesser extent all of them were taken into account in the process of shaping vocations in the Ełk Seminary. The basic ways and means of their implementation are included in the Regulations and the Statute of the seminar. In addition, their shape was determined by the experience from previous years of the Seminarʼs operation, guidelines and proposals of teams responsible for formation associating rectors, spiritual fathers or prefects, the specificity of the events experienced and the conditions of the local Church.