The Verbum Dei graduate is spiritual.  He has a sincere and deep sense of God’s presence and love in his life.  He has an understanding of Catholicism and has developed an understanding of his faith in relation to Christianity, deepening his personal relationship with God through prayer, contemplation and action.  Being spiritually rooted, he makes value-driven choices and recognizes the value in healing and reconciliation with himself, others, and the Lord.  He is a “man with and for others,” recognizing the human dignity of all and therefore committed to understanding and responding to issues of social justice for a more humane and just world. 

 The Verbum Dei graduate:

• has read the Gospels and encountered the person of Jesus Christ as He is presented in the New Testament.
• has a basic understanding of the Church's teaching about Jesus Christ and His redeeming mission, as well as the embodiment of that mission in and through the Church.
• has had some exposure to non-Christian and non-Catholic religious traditions.
• is beginning to take more responsibility for exploring and validating one's own faith.
• has had some personal experience of God, either in private prayer, while on a retreat, in liturgical prayer, or in some other moving experience; is learning how to express self in various methods of prayer.
• is beginning to form a Christian conscience and evaluate moral choices, and can reason through moral issues with increasing clarity.
• has begun to appreciate the centrality of the Eucharist to a vibrant Christian community.
• is learning through his or her own failure of the need for healing by and reconciliation with friends, family, Church, and the Lord.
• is at the beginning stages of understanding the relationship between faith in Jesus and being a “person for others."
• is familiar with Church teaching on social justice.