Desert Formation Experience is the thirty-day spiritual pilgrimage first-year graduate seminarians make each year to the Holy Land. There they experience firsthand the places Christ walked and taught, suffered and died, while seeking his guidance in their own walk toward the priesthood.
The ultimate goal of the Desert Formation Experience and all of the summer programs is to ensure the priest-graduate of the seminary is a man of strong character and deep spirituality; a man you can be proud to call your spiritual “Father.”
DFE Blog: Walk Along with the Seminarians
The DFE pilgrims keep a spiritual blog in which they share insights from each day of their journey. Why not go on a “pilgrimage” to the Holy Land yourself by following along with them? Visit sacred sites such as Bethlehem, Nazareth, the River Jordan, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Journey with the seminarians to the holy city of Rome, the final destination on their life-altering Desert Formation Experience. Go to blog.
Desert Meals
The Desert Formation Experience cost roughly $200 per seminarian per day ($1,500 per week). Due to COVID, we will be unable to participate in a Desert Meal. However, we’d like to offer a Seminarians to speak to your parishioners on a weekend after all of the masses. For more information, please call 313-596-7424. The names and intentions of all contributors are placed on a Prayer Scroll and prayed for by the pilgrims at each holy site.Desert Golf Classic
Why not support the DFE seminarians and have a great time, too? Get a golf team together in mid-September and take on the gorgeous course at the Indianwood Golf & Country Club in Lake Orion. Join golfers for bragging rights at a cocktail hour and awards dinner afterwards. Learn more at desertgolfclassic.org.
Can You Help?
Only through the generosity of benefactors can the men cover the cost of this spiritual journey of faith.