Questionnaire on Ratio Formationis

Please read the following methodological considerations carefully before answering the questionnaire.

The purpose of this questionnaire is to survey the knowledge and application of the Ratio Formationis in all the circumscriptions of the Order. Your answers will help us to improve our criteria for discernment and formative accompaniment.
The questionnaire is addressed to all the brothers. Some questions are formulated covering two moments of formation that is with the brothers currently in initial formation (present) and those already in ongoing formation (can keep their past initial formation in mind) while answering the questions.
The SGF is committed to protecting privacy, safeguarding data and using them exclusively for formation purposes.
Before answering any questions, please read the RF numbers indicated along with the question.

General questions

1. Which of the following regional areas of the Order do you belong to?

2. What stage of formation are you in?

3. What is your age?

Questions on the understanding of the text of the Ratio Formationis

4. How would you rate your knowledge of the Writings of St. Francis and the Franciscan Sources?

5. Are you reading any books on Franciscanism?

6. After having carefully read the first chapter of the RF (nos. 1-56), with which Personality Traits of St Francis do you feel most identified? (Use the scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is very little identified and 10 is completely identified).

a. Tireless search for the face of the living God

b. Love for all creatures

c. Ability to feel like a brother to everyone, without excluding anyone.

d. Itinerant preaching of the Gospel

e. Service to the poor and the lepers

f. Ability to remain joyful and confident in the midst of problems and difficulties

7. What is your level of identification with the following Charismatic Values (nos. 62-73) (use a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is very little identification and 10 is completely identification)?

a. Contemplation

b. Life in Fraternity

c. Priority to the service of the poor

d. Mission in other countries

e. On the care of Creation

8. On the initiation and integration of the formative dimensions (No. 61). Throughout your formation process, are or have the human, spiritual, intellectual and missionary dimensions been sufficiently integrated by the charismatic dimension at all stages?

9. On the human dimension (n. 83). Does or has the formation process helped you to be aware of and responsible for the gifts and talents God has given us for the service of the fraternity?

10. On the spiritual dimension (n. 95-97). Does the silence that invites contemplation and love for the Word of God help you in the face of the danger of Superficiality and Devotionalism?

11. During the time of my formation, my experiences and images of God have been purified (n. 95)?

12. On the intellectual dimension (n. 110). Study must not feed our individualism, but should strengthen our capacity for community reflection. In relation to the methodologies of the formation centre where I receive or have received my academic training, I can say that:

13. On the pastoral missionary dimension (nº 123). During the period of formation, pastoral experiences are important and must take into account the gifts and abilities of each brother; they must be carried out in fraternity, never alone; and they must be accompanied and evaluated by the formation team.

14. On personal accompaniment (nos. 145-151). Mark the option that best reflects your personal reality:

15. Concerning the formation team (nº 165-169). Mark the options that, in your opinion, best describe the formation team that accompanies you or has accompanied you.

a. Taking into account the number of brothers who make up or have made up the formation team, is or has been:

b. The brothers who are or have been members of the formation team are or have been valued, work as a team, always discern and decide together

c. The formation received by members of the formation team to become formators is/was

16. On the profile of formators (nº 170-173). Rate from 1 to 10 in a global way the qualities of the brother formators who accompany you or have accompanied you in your formation process

a. They have a passion for formation and feel identified with this fraternal service.

b. They know how to work in a team

c. Have a realistic self-image, healthy self-esteem and a sufficient emotional maturity

d. They create space for listening and dialogue with other formators and formees.

e. They have a strong sense of belonging and are sensitive to situations of poverty and marginalisation.

17. On specific initial formation (295-301). Fraternal life and formation for consecration have priority in the time of initial formation, which is always the same for all the brothers.

a. In your circumscription, does formation for fraternal life and religious consecration have priority over specific formation for ecclesial ministries or fraternal ministries?

b. Does your circumscription have a specific formation plan for lay brothers?

c. What model of post-novitiate formation does or did your circumscription have?

18. On formative collaboration (nos. 302-304)

a. If your formation house is or has been the fruit of formative collaboration

- Has or had formation with brothers from other circumscriptions a positive and enriching experience?

- Is or was the fraternity composed of brothers from the various circumscription that make up the collaboration?

- Do you think that receiving formation outside your fraternity can or has weakened your sense of belonging to the fraternity?

b. If you have not or have not had any experience of collaborative formation

- Would you share or have you shared, at least at some stage of formation, with brothers from other circumscriptions?

- Do you know other cultures, other languages, other realities?

19. On affective-sexuality (see Annex III: Psycho-affective and sexual maturation)

a. Are you aware of the protocol for child and vulnerable adult abuse in your circumscription?

b. Have you signed it and committed to follow its guidelines?

c. In your formative experience, have you had or are you able to share any doubts, concerns or problems of an affective-sexual nature with your formators?

d. In the formation house where you live or lived, do you think there is/was sufficient formation and information on sexual orientation and the responsibility to construct a sexual identity in accordance with the demands of our charism?

e. Do you think you need or have needed more help in this formative dimension or do you feel or have you felt sufficiently formed?

20. Are you happy with your vocation as a Capuchin Friar Minor?

Questionnaireon Ratio Formationis