Basic Discernment Benchmarks
Community of Aspirants
Basic Discernment Benchmarks for the Aspirancy Stages:
- Minimum three years of active discernment under the guidance of a vocation director
- Two-week minimum annual residency at B.C.S. (e.g. during diaconate studies weeks)
- Clear articulation of conviction of a priestly calling with reasonable presumption of permanency to formation and discernment toward presbyteral ordination
- Capacity to be an active and mature agent of his own formation.