date: 24.02.2016.
The 23rd International Meeting for Organisers of Pilgrimages, Leaders of Peace Centres and Međugorje Prayer and Charity Groups will be held in Medjugorje from 29th February – 4th March, 2016.
The theme of the Meeting is:
"Be merciful, just as also your Father is merciful." (Lk 6, 36)
In Our Lady's School
PROGRAMME
Monday, February 29, 2016
15.00 The registration of the participants
17.00 The Evening Prayer Programme in the Church
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
9.00 The Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
9.30 Lecture
Recess
11.00 Meeting and discussion with the Lecturer
15.00 Work in language groups
17.00 The Evening Prayer Programme in the Church
21.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
9.30 Lecture, sharing
Recess
11.00 Meeting and discussion with the Lecturer
14.00 Prayer on Cross Mountain
17.00 The Evening Prayer Programme in the Church
19.00 New: Meditation and dinner with members of the parish (bread and tea)
Thursday, March 3, 2016
9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
9.30 Lecture, sharing
Recess
11.00 Meeting with the parish priest
12.30 Lunch for all the participants
15.00 Prayer on Apparition Hill
17.00 The Evening Prayer Programme in the Church
Friday, March 4, 2016
9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
09:30 – The experiences of the participants, followed by the Closing Holy Mass
The Lecturer at the retreat is Fr. Marinko Šakota, the parish priest of Medjugorje
Father Marinko Šakota was born in Čitluk in 1968. He completed the elementary school, as well as the first class of the High school in Čitluk. Then he felt the Franciscan calling and went to the Franciscan seminary in Visoko where he completed the second class of the Grammar school, and the remaining two he completed in the Jesuit Grammar School in Dubrovnik where he later graduated. He put on the Franciscan habit on July 15, 1987 in Humac where he spent his first year of the Novitiate. He started studying philosophy and theology in Sarajevo at the Franciscan Theology (1989-1990), continued in Zagreb at the Jesuit College (1990-1992), and he completed his studies in Fulda, Germany, where he graduated in 1995. He gave eternal vows in Široki Brijeg in 1993. He was ordained as deacon in Zagreb in 1996 and as a priest in Frohnleiten in 1996. He first served in Franciscan monastery in Innsbruck where he spent a year as an assistant, then as a spiritual assistant in Frohnleiten, and as an assistant parish priest in Augsburg. He served as the assistant parish priest in Mostar for three years, and was then appointed as the parish priest in Gradnići for seven years. He has been serving as the assistant parish priest in Međugorje since September 2010, and as the parish priest in the same parish since 2013.
