Our Lady of the Angels Seminary

MINIMAL SET OF VALUES WITH CORRESPONDING BEHAVIORS TO BE EFFECTIVE AS OLAS FORMATORS
Stage	Goal Values	Means Values	Behaviors

1	Wonder/Awe/Fate: Appreciating and feeling helpless in the face of the grandeur and mystery of life.	Safety/Survival: Having concern about health, safety and having enough to minimally sustain life.	1. Join field work with the students every Monday. 2. Have a renunciation box in the community stock room. 3. Give to the director of sems first the things which the seminarians can use. 4. Bring down to the refectory extra food in the pantry or refrigerator in the rec room that is not consumed within two days. 5. We shall not buy junk food during the recreation. 6. Submit to an annual medical check-up.

2	Security: Creating an environment where one feels one’s most basic needs are met, such as healthcare benefits or salary.	Property Control: Developing skills in managing property and finances.	1. Have a log book for each car, which must be checked by the driver before its use. 2. Employ proper management procedures in raising livestock for them to be productive. 3. Be responsible owners of pets. 4. Have a waste management program for OLAS. 5. Have an official inventory of OLAS property: tables, chairs, etc. 6. Assign someone as property custodian to check all the repairs that need to be done. 7. Make provisions for health insurance.

3	Family Belonging: Nurturing close and loyal relationships with one’s family and/or co-workers.	Friendship/Belonging: Being part of a group with whom one can share day-to-day.	1. The friars shall take time at meals, whenever possible, to converse and shall just wash their own dishes afterwards. 2. Have Mass with the Rieti friars on every first Thursday. 3. Visit the Rieti friars once in a while. 4. Each friar priest shall take turn in celebrating Mass for the workers (after consulting them on the appropriate time). 5. Have a monthly celebration for all the birthday celebrants of the month (friars, teachers, workers, students), who sit at one table together at lunchtime on the last Friday of the month. 6. Organize an ongoing formation program for the seminarians’ parents or guardians.
3	Self-Worth: Knowing that one is valued by those who know one well.	Support/Peer: Giving and receiving support from one’s peers even in difficult times.	1. Have a special recollection outside of OLAS at least once a semester prepared ahead of time. 2. Have a regular feed-back to one another at least during the special recollection. 3. Share with one another one’s values in the personal profile. 4. Share with one another what has transpired with oneself for the whole month in one’s ministry. 5. Keep the internal affairs of OLAS within the community. 6. For the formation team to seek avenues to gather as much information pertinent to formation.

4	Belief/Philosophy: Adherence to a belief system, set of principles, or established philosophy of life.	Communication/Info: Transmitting ideas and factual data between people and components of an organization.	1. To live according to the VM of OLAS. 2. To undergo a seminar at the beginning of the term on policies and guidelines for formation and the school. 3. To maximize the use of bulletin boards. 4. To publish a bi-monthly OLAS News-letter. 5. To develop the skill of processing information.
	Competence/Confidence: Having assurance in one’s skills to achieve and make a positive contribution at work.	Efficiency/Planning: Making critical path planning that maximizes output and minimizes waste.	1. To assess strategic planning quarterly and to critique for possible recommendations for future plans. 2. Friars assigned as members of the formation team must be willing to undergo a formal training and on-going formation and must be full time in such assignment. 3. To get involved in the formulation and implementation of formative plans and activities for OLAS aspirants.
	Play/Recreation: Placing a priority on playful relaxation as essential to the quality of relationships and work.	Competition: Being energized to win and do better for one’s self and as part of a team.	1. To play indoor and outdoor games among ourselves and with the collegians. 2. To have an outing at least once a year.

5	Integration/Wholeness: Harmonizing the mind and the body.	Congruence: Ability to express feelings and thoughts consistent with internal experiences in a straightforward manner.	1. Do a BTR on our personal experiences in the ministries at least once a month during the re-collection. 2. Once a month organize a special liturgy to-wards a spiritual integration of no. 1 above. 3. Do training of communication skills.
	Service/Vocation: Knowing that you have skills, occupation, or profession that is making a significant contribution.	Generosity/Compassion: Being sensitive to the limitations of others and using one’s unique gifts and skills to help them without expecting something in return.	1. See to it that any project that we propose to undertake during the chapter be on a collaborative basis to enhance personal charisms and support individual limitations. 2. Seek how members of the community can collaborate in one’s ministry. 3. Organize outreach programs, like catechesis and family enrichment programs to our neigh-boring community around OLAS compound, in coordination with the parish.
	Self-Actualization: Developing spiritual, psychological, physical and mental health.	Quality/Evaluation: Appreciating objective self-appraisal. Being open to what others reflect about oneself or one’s group and the product of one’s work for personal growth and the improvement of service to others.	1. Establish a feedback system through which the students, teachers, staff and workers can evaluate the friars. 2. To make available tools which we can use for the evaluation process. 3. Taking into account the results of the evaluation process, organize an ongoing formation program for the community members.

6	Contemplation: Practicing the art of meditation in order to achieve quality presence	Detachment/Solitude: The regular discipline of detachment that leads to quality relationships with others.	1. 30 mins. – 1 hr. a day contemplation/ meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. 2. Once a month day-off allowing each friar a full day of solitude.
6	Presence: Being attentive to others in a high quality way, so their lives become meaningful.	Intimacy: Sharing thoughts, feelings and fantasies, mutually, freely, and regularly with another person.	1. To identify ways of feeling free to communicate with one’s intimate friend. 2. To give time to individuals to give in-formation completely. 3. To provide venues and occasions for intimacy, by making time for enhancing intimacy level among ourselves. 4. To make oneself available all the time to anyone. 5. Once a month eat-out.

7	Intimacy/Solitude: Experiencing inner harmony that results from meditation, mutual openness and acceptance of an-other person.	Community/Personalist: Committing to a group or team to maximize both independent creativity and interdependent cooperation.	1. The friars shall encourage one another to use whatever talents, abilities, etc. that each one has for the good of the community. 2. The friars shall go out of their way to make each other feel accepted and welcomed despite that a certain friar may have some weaknesses and limitations. 3. To manifest a lifestyle that is consistent with our Form of Life.

8	Word: Transforming other people’s values and world views through communicating of universal truths.	Global Justice: Bringing about inter-institutional interaction to provide the basic rights and necessities for the disadvantaged.	1. The friars shall patronize and encourage others to use our own native/local products (vs. effects of globalization) 2. Be part of advocacy groups that challenge Filipino producers to make high-quality products. 3. Assign a justice and peace animator who may conscientize, organize and mobilize the community about the justice and peace situation not only in our country but in the whole world. 4. The community shall always see to it that justice is rendered to our very own workers/staff. 5. We shall organize activities that will promote the care of creation. 6. As friars like Francis, we should always take care of plants and animals. 7. As friars, we should treat each human being equally (including visiting friars). 8. Organize fora to promote respect for each other and for humanity.

Take Note: The ideas contained here are considered as they have been approved by the friars in their local chapter. After undertaking testings and mentorings from Dra. Bella Dumas, (of Values Technology) OLAS friars were able to produce this MINIMAL SET OF VALUES.