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Welcome to Christian Formation & Direction Ministries (CFDM) Arizona

Here for our two-year certificate program in spiritual direction? Due to the COVID Virus, Year One for Cohort 6 will take place on the Zoom platform, providing a safe and accessible environment, while lowering the tuition. Download and print the application here: Application Cohort 6-2

Our mission is to cultivate spiritual formation, fostering our response to the invitation to deepen our relationship with the triune God.  Our trainings, events, workshops and programs offer the opportunity to go deeper in your relationship with God, yourself and the world.

I invite you to explore our two-year certification training program in spiritual direction, as well as other workshops, events and resources offered through CFDM Arizona.

Joyce in Purple Shirt

Blessings and Peace,

Joyce Vidal-Thornburg, MA, CT, CSD
Executive Director, CFDM Arizona
jvidal460@gmail.com

The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a person’s life, to get behind the face of conventional gestures and attitudes which are presented to the world, and to bring out the person’s inner spiritual freedom, his/her inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his/her soul. – Thomas Merton

The discernment workshop helped me focus on the biggest question in my spiritual life: to whom do I pray? My project, which calls me to continue whether I’m ill and abed or well and about, is to pursue the faint trail of the divine feminine through the tangle of masculinized Christianity. I need a strong image of the feminine in which to heal myself and draw the energy to serve and pray for others.

 

From “A Time for Discernment”

I began my CFDM program with an unclear understanding of why I was drawn to every mention of it. It was a mystery. And by the time I graduated two years later, I fully understood. It was precisely the Mystery…I am home…

 

CFDM Cohort 2 Member