date: 27.06.2016.
The 21st International Priests Seminar will be held in Međugorje
from July 4 to 9, 2016
Topic: "Be merciful, just as also your Father is merciful." (Lk 6, 36)
"In Our Lady's School"
SEMINAR PROGRAMME
July 4th 2016, Monday
16. 00 – 18. 00 Registration of participants (Hall of the Blessed John Paul II)
18.00 THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMINAR
(Prayer of the Rosary, Holy Mass, Prayer for healing of body and soul, Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary)
July 5th 2016, Tuesday
9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
9. 30 Lecture, prayer
12. 00 Break (Silent Adoration)
15.30 Lecture, prayer
18.00 The evening prayer programme (Rosary, Holy Mass, Prayer for healing of body and soul, Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary)
22.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
July 6th 2016, Wednesday
9.00 Laudes in Latin and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
9. 30 Lecture, prayer
12. 00 Break (Silent Adoration)
15.30 Lecture, prayer
18.00 The evening prayer programme (Rosary, Holy Mass, Prayer for healing of body and soul, Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary)
July 7th 2016, Thursday
6.00 Rosary at Apparition Hill
10. 00 Lecture, prayer
12. 00 Break (Silent Adoration)
15.30 Lecture, prayer
18.00 The evening prayer programme (Rosary, Holy Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament)
July 8th 2016, Friday
6.00 The Way of the Cross on Cross Mountain, confessions
15. 30 Lecture, prayer
18.00 The evening prayer programme (Rosary, Holy Mass,Veneration of the Holy Cross )
July 9th 2016, Saturday
08.30 Prayer at fr. Slavko Barbarić's grave
09.00 Sharing of experiences, suggestions and testimonies
CONCLUSION OF THE SEMINAR WITH HOLY MASS AT 11,00
The leaders of the Seminar for Priests are:
Father Damir Pavić was born on 9 November 1971 in Vareš. His native parish Vijaka was dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. He is a member of the province Bosna Srebrena. He was ordained on 29 June 2005 in Sarajevo. He worked in the parish Fojnica, the parish Okučani and for the last four years he has served in the parish of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Brestovski. Upon Virgin Mary’s intercession, he felt the love for the call of the priest in Međugorje.
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.
