Training Programs in the Ignatian Tradition
Thank you for your interest in Holy Trinity's Ignatian Training Programs.
Our programs will begin again in the Fall of 2025,
starting with the Faber Program.
Explo
re and Discern
A call to formation to become a Spiritual Director
The seminar is designed to help individuals who are feeling drawn to the ministry of spiritual direction explore their desire and abilities for this ministry and to discern if indeed God is calling the person to further formation.
Spiritual Directors are called to accompany individuals who are seeking orientation, encouragement, and discernment in the life of the Spirit.
We are taking a brief hiatus due to staff transitions. The next session is expected to begin in the spring of 2026. Please hold your applications until further notice. Thank you for your patience!
Click here for the Explore and Discern brochure, which provides more information about the program.
Ignatian Training Program
Becoming a Spiritual Director
The online program provides structure, content, mentoring and supervision to individuals who discerned a call to the ministry of spiritual direction.
Spiritual Directors are called to guide individuals who are seeking ongoing orientation, encouragement, and discernment in the life of the Spirit.
This holistic spiritual formation program is designed and implemented in the spirit of cura personalis - adapting to the person’s gifts and talents while using the values and principles of the Ignatian tradition to understand situations as they arise.The dynamics of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola serve as the foundation for the program. For more information, please see the Ignatian Training Program brochure.
The Ignatian Training Program is on a brief hiatus due to staff transitions. It is expected to begin again in the fall of 2026. Please hold your applications until further notice. Thank you for your patience!
Online Faber Training Program to Give the Spiritual Exercises
St. Peter Faber was one of the first Jesuits. He met Ignatius of Loyola when they were studying at the University of Paris. Faber made the full Exercises only after spending four years in spiritual conversation with Ignatius. Once he made them, however, Faber proved to be a master ‘giver’ of the Exercises. In Ignatius’ estimation, Faber was the best of all the first companions in giving the Exercises to others. After the Society of Jesus was founded in 1540, Faber spent most of his time in Germany. He was convinced that the Exercises were the most effective way to remedy divisions among Christians and reform the Church.
We cherish the Exercises as Ignatius’ gift to the Church. Not only do the Exercises help people on their own journey of faith, but they can animate the spiritual, pastoral, theological, and liturgical life of the Church.
In offering this innovative program for training in the Spiritual Exercises, we rely on the patronage of Peter Faber. The Peter Faber Program forms skilled ministers of the Spiritual Exercises for ministry to the People of God in Washington and the surrounding area. The program enables participants to develop the competencies included in the document, “Guiding Standards for Those Who Give the Spiritual Exercises,” approved by the Jesuit provincials of the United States and English-speaking Canada, 2015.
We are taking a brief hiatus due to staff transitions. The next program is expected to begin again in the fall of 2025. Please hold your applications until further notice. Thank you for your patience!
Please see the Peter Faber Training Program Brochure for additional information.