Pope Francis reminds seminarians of the honesty necessary in allowing Holy Mother Church to speak to them through their formators:  “…the seminarian should know himself and let himself be known, relating to the formators with sincerity and transparency.”   (Ratio Fundamentalis #45)  Each seminarian is assigned a priest mentor who acts as his external formation advisor.  Meeting with his formator on a monthly basis, these meetings are an opportunity to discuss regularly the seminarian’s progress in the priestly formation program.  These meetings become the basis for the formation faculty to be able to recommend a man advance through the formation program.