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The Parish Internship is envisioned as an eight month full time experience within the diocese of the student. It begins in January of the third year of theology and end in August of that year. Ordinarily this would mean a beginning date the first week of January with August 15 as the date for concluding the experience.
Internship is the practical application of pastoral ministerial skills in a defined learning situation. The emphasis is on relating what has been learned in the academic setting of the classroom with what is lived and experienced in the pastoral setting of the parish. During the eight months it is expected that the student will encounter the diversity of life in a parish community by participating in the various gatherings where people worship and carry out the service, education, evangelization, and stewardship dimensions of church life.
The Parish Internship has been conceived:
- to provide a positive opportunity for the student to engage in that ministry which is the right and duty of the Christian by Baptism;
- to enhance the readiness of the student for the integration of theological study and its application to priestly ministry in a contemporary setting within a local parish community;
- to enable the student minister and the Church to identify more accurately those attitudes and aptitudes for priestly ministry which the student possesses at this time in order to set further academic and formational goals within the whole program of study; and
- to enable the student minister to identify and to employ a spirituality appropriate to the diocesan priesthood.
Further information on the Parish Internship may be found in the appropriate handbooks and materials of the Director of Field Education.
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