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The one thing that all successful pastoral leaders have in common is their drive for improvement -both in who one is and what one does - a fierce commitment to their own lifelong formation and an unflinching quest for personal excellence. This workbook is used in ongoing formation programs at the Institute for Priests and Presbyerates at St. Meinrad School of Theology. It provides a framework for priests to examine their lives, both ministerial and personal, and set goals for growth. In this handbook, many different areas of focus and growth are recommended. It is your job, through prayerful discernment, to put in place a manageable plan that has realistic goals and healthy benchmarks for evaluation. You will be amazed at how such a simple tool in your life can lead to radical transformation.

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Father J. Ronald Knott is a priest of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky. Ordained May 16, 1970, he has served as a home missionary, college teacher, campus minister, pastor, cathedral rector, traveling evangelist, homiletics instructor and archdiocesan vocations director. He is presently the Director of the Institute for Priests and Presbyterates at Saint Meinrad School of Theology; a columnist for his archdiocesan newspaper, The Record; and a part-time campus minister at Bellarmine University in Louisville. Father Knott has had articles published in America, Church, Seminary Journal, Deacon Digest, and The Pastoral Review. He has given major addresses at national conventions on church renovation, homiletics, presbyteral unity and vocations. He has presented more than 75 parish missions and retreats and has led more than 100 presbyteral convocations around the country and abroad. Father Knott holds a Masters of Divinity degree from Saint Meinrad School of Theology in Indiana and a Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Presbyterian Seminary in Chicago. He has authored several books for clergy and published three collections of his homilies and eleven volumes of his For the Record book series. Three of his books for clergy are available in Spanish and one in Swahili.

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