St. Joseph's Seminary and College

Project Information

• Initiative: Individual School Grant (ISG)
• Project Title: The Redemptor Hominis Center for Holistic Health
• Project Description: The Redemptor Hominis Center for Holistic Health will strengthen St. Joseph's Seminary's capacity to form healthy, resilient Catholic leaders by providing comprehensive, multi-component, holistic health programming aligned with both its historic mission and the new guidelines of the USCCB's Program for Priestly Formation (2022). Core objectives of the center will include: 1) Providing individual wellness assessments for all seminarians in each stage of priestly formation (Propaedeutic, Discipleship, Configuration); 2) Enabling early identification and overseeing consistent wellness services to address seminarians' holistic (mental, physical, and emotional) health needs; 3) Supporting recently ordained alumni with workshops and fraternity programming intended to strengthen satisfaction and success; 4) Empowering diaconate candidates, deacons, and lay church leaders through workshops and conferences on wellness topics intended to strengthen their ability to meet parishioner needs.
• Project Area: Church vitality and equipping lay leaders | Lay ecclesial formation (Catholic) | Non-degree and continuing/lifelong learning | Upskilling pastoral and ministerial leaders
• Project Start Date: 25-Oct-01
• Project End Date: 30-Dec-31
• Project Amount: $999,440