Before the apostles were sent out to evangelize, he spent time in their formation.

We are called to live out our faith and share it with others, to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth. To do this effectively in a society which is increasingly ignorant of and even hostile to Christian values we need formation. In this meditation we consider how:

• Christ spent time forming the apostles before sending them out to all nations
• We too are called to go out and help others find God and to make our culture more Christian
• For this we need  a deep spiritual, doctrinal, human and apostolic formation
• Pope St John Paul II writes of the need for formation in his Apostolic Exhortation “Christifideles laici“
• We can receive this formation in a variety of ways