Studies of the Mendicant Missionaries

"And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" (Jn 8:32). 

Taking to heart the importance of Truth in the Christian life, the young missionaries are committed to solid, orthodox, and faithful philosophical and theological formation as one of their pillars of personal sanctification and apostolate. 

That is why the aspirant and postulant Mendicants begin their academic formation taking classes inside the Domus. The classes are divided in the following areas: languages, anthropology, theology, spirituality, and religious life.   These classes help to acquire a more comprehensive formation for the religious missionary life.  Older brothers and different magnanimous, devout, and faithful bishops, priests, deacons, religious, and other lay theologians are invited to impart this weekly formation.

Later on in the formation path, the junior missionaries begin a full load of undergrad or grad classes at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, in Detroit.  The academic programs they can study are: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Bachelor of Philosophy, Master of Arts in Theology (with various concentrations: e.g. New Evangelization, Systematic Theology, Sacred Scriptures, etc.), or Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.).

For those missionaries that are foreign and need proficiency in the English language, we have found some schools that teach them good ESL (English as a Second Language) classes in the meantime that they enter into the full academic load at the seminary.