Presentation to perspective seminarians. Holy Thursday, March 29, 2018

1. St. Catherine AndThe Priests:
Guiding Principles for Healthy,
Happy and Holy Priesthood

2. What Principles GuideYour Leadership:
3 Questions to Answer Now
• Janice Marturano
• Founder and Executive Director,
Institute for Mindful Leadership;
• FormerVice President, Public
Responsibility and Deputy
General Counsel, General Mills.

3. Article from
Institute for Mindful Leadership
1.What are my leadership principles?
2.What are those principles that are my rudder
amid the storms?
3.And what do I notice when my actions as a
leader do not align with these principles?

4. St. Catherine AndThe Priests:
A Message ForThe Church OfTheThird Millennium
• Lecture By Professor Maria Antonietta Falchi Pellegrini
• Italy in 1300’s
• Torn by civil strife
• Church subject to corruption, disagreement and political interests.
• “The visible events of the life of the Church are prepared in the silent
dialogue of the souls consecrated with their Lord.” (Edith Stein)

5. Catherine of Siena
•Outlined a reform:
•To extend to the entire body of the Church.
•Must start from personal conversion.

6. Catherine of Siena: Recommendations
Internal
• Inspired by purity, peace and charity.
• Based on life of prayer
• ”With the spouse of the breviary at his side"
• Sobriety,
• Detachment from earthly pleasures,
• Devotion to the glory of God
External
• Attentive to the good of souls,
• Administer the Sacraments
• Illumination of the faithful by word and
example
• Correction of sinners
• Charity to the poor.

7. Pastores DaboVobis
(“IWill GiveYou Shepherds”)
• Pope John Paul II
• March 25, 1992
• Concerns formation of priests
• Addressed to clergy and lay faithful of the Catholic Church.

8. Four “Dimensions”
Human
• Diet
• Exercise
• Hobbies
• Friendships
• Entertainment
Intellectual
• Secular reading
• Spiritual reading
• Technology
•  Homily preparation

9. Four “Dimensions”
Spiritual
• Prayer
• Spiritual direction
• Eucharist
• Adoration
• Confession
Pastoral
• Family
• Priest fellowship
• Priest workshops
• Priest funerals

10. Article from
Institute for Mindful Leadership
1. What are my leadership principles?
2.What are those principles that are my rudder amid the storms?
3. What do I notice when my actions as a leader do not align with
these principles’?

11. St. Catherine AndThe Priests:
End of Presentation