Within the IFC Formative Program, the 4 areas of Regnum Christi formation are given.
Regnum Christi promotes the formation of formators because of the awareness that people who are well prepared to form, guide and inspire others are essential for deep, lasting and dynamic apostolic action.
Chapter 1
“Entering into the Adventure of the IFC”
Objective: To introduce the International Formators Course and its program; in this chapter, the tools which the formators will use throughout the course shall be provided.
Conferences / Activities:
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- Opening conference on IFC’s expectations
- Formative program explanation
- Prayer workshop
- Oratory and pastoral preaching workshop
- Conference on truth
Chapter 2
“Treasures in clay – discovering men’s identity”
Objective: To explain the basis of man’s dignity, mainly searching for the answer to the following questions: Who is man? What is his goal? How does he fulfill his purpose? Similarly, further exploring of the disorder introduced by original sin will be carried out, both in terms of the external and internal obstacles that each person faces in his path towards transcendence. Lastly, it is worth noting that in this module the tools that permit the participant to get to know himself better will be given, emphasizing the acceptance of qualities and flaws with the aim of achieving a personal planning program.
Conferences / Activities:
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- Man’s dignity
- Man’s purpose and goal
- Man’s plenitude
- The obstacles to personal fulfillment
- The person, spirit made flesh – Visit to the Vatican Museums
- Workshop
- Debate
- Pilgrimage to Orvieto – Assisi, field study on Church reformation and cultural transformation
Chapter 3
“Own your Worldview – Getting to know the world we live in”
- Objective: To be aware of and understand the ideologies and problems that challenge today’s world, hence forming an objective personal criterion in accordance with the Gospel. The topics cover the world’s scenarios and the ideologies that are currently assailing it (particularly relativism). From evangelic truth and the solid foundation of man’s dignity, it will be sought that the formators acquire the capacity of seeing, judging, and acting as true Christians in their everyday lives, transforming culture through their own testimony.
- Conferences / Activities:
- Past ideologies: A History of Philosophy
- Present ideologies: gender and man’s sexual dimension
- Present ideologies: religious relativism
- Present ideologies: political relativism
- Future ideologies: transhumanism
- Workshop
- Cinema forum
Chapter 4
“I shall be a Father to you and you shall be my son – God’s action in history and in our lives”
- Objective: To study and grasp God in Sacred Scripture, making room for the formator to experience a personal encounter with Him, and Church History, creating the proper space for the formator to understand God’s providential actions in man’s history).
- Conferences / Activities:
- Church History
- Bible Workshop
- Socio-drama
- The Holy Shroud
Chapter 5
“I came to set the world ablaze, and how I wish it were already burning” – bringing our Regnum Christi mission to the world”
- Objective: To present the figure of a Regnum Christi formator as a valuable answer to current Church needs. This should allow the participant to interpret social reality under the scope of his own identity, which is none other than that of an apostle of Jesus Christ that bears witness to the Good News, and in so doing proving himself capable of tackling with a critical and truthful mind the challenges that appear before him. Similarly, Regnum Christi’s history, spirituality, and apostolic methodology are to be studied. The international character of IFC should contribute, at this point, to generate a unique exchange of experiences.
- Conferences / Activities:
- Apologetics
- Regnum Christi’s apostle
- Christian action and leadership – Psychometric tests
- Regnum Christi’s history
- Looking ahead: your own RC section – Reading the signs of the times
- Regnum Christi, a path to holiness
- Workshop – Feedback and personal remarks
- Rally throughout Rome – Leadership, intellectual and cultural formation
- Reading – Circle of studies on the Apostolic Exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate
RC Mission Corp
RC Mission Corp – Apostles of Jesus Christ
The Regnum Christi Mission Corps is a 1-2 year Catholic youth missionary program that leads young people into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ, forms them as Christian leaders and apostles, and sends them out to put their unique gifts and talents at the service of the evangelizing mission of the Church.
Objective: Preparation and training as a missionary by having an experience of Christ, allowing oneself to be transformed by Him.
The contents taught in this section are: the life and mission of the missionaries of Regnum Christi, going down to the practical details of daily life; the five dimensions of the missionary: spiritual, human, intellectual, apostolic, and communion. And it will conclude by presenting the group of mentors who will accompany them throughout the year.