The 22nd
INTERNATIONAL PRIESTS SEMINAR
The 22nd International Priests Seminar
will be held in Međugorje
from July
3 to 8, 2017
The theme of the Meeting is:
"That your love may
increase ever more" (Phil 1:9)
"In Our Lady's School"
SEMINAR
PROGRAMME
July
3rd 2017, 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
4th 2017, 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
5th 2017, 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
6th 2017, 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
7th 2017, Friday
6.00 The Way of the Cross on
15. 30 Lecture, prayer
18.00 The evening
prayer programme (Rosary, Holy Mass,Veneration
of the Holy Cross )
July
8th 2017, 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 seminar coordinator is Fr. Marinko Šakota.
The leader of
the Seminar for Priests is don Ivan Filipović, born on November 29, 1968 in Tomislavgrad (Bosnia and Herzegovina), where the roots of
his family are. As a child, he moved with his parents to Slavonia (Croatia), to
Đakovo where two brothers and the youngest sister
were born. He grew up in a peaceful, Christian family where he adopted true
human values, although in his growing up certainly the presence of the father
was missing who was on "temporary work" in Germany. In Đakovo, he finished elementary and high school, branch
mathematics and informatics, which allowed him to enrol as student in the
Faculty of Informatics in Varaždin, which he hasn’t
finished.
He interrupted his studies when he was
nineteen, left his home country and went “out into the world” to seek true
freedom, autonomy, human affirmation .... In his
search, life has led him through some periods of time and through several
European capitals where he met a lot of beauty, and unfortunately the world of
drugs.
From "the clutches of death," he
managed to pluck with the help of the Community Cenacolo
that received him when he was 26 years old, in a rather serious state of
dependency.
After four years of treatment, the Community
allowed him to deepen his interest in the Humanities at the Institute of
Religious Sciences in Pisa, Italy. With pleasure and success, he completed two
years of study at the Institute. Afterwards, he moved to the north of Italy, to
the Central Community House in Saluzzo, where he
finished with several young people from the Community the Faculty of Theology
in Fossano.
He was ordained to the priesthood on July
17, 2004 in the diocese of Savigliano, Italy, with
the permission of the bishop to work and act in the Community Cenacolo, to which he devoted his life and where he still
lives.
You may make reservations by e-mail: seminar.marija@medjugorje.hr,
or by fax: +387-36-651-999 (for Marija Dugandzic).
The parishioners of the Međugorje
parish will provide free accommodation to all priests during the seminar as
they have done in the previous years. We kindly ask all priests who are
organising their own accommodation with friends in Međugorje
to list the name, surname and telephone number of the family with whom they
have organised accommodation in their registration form. Priests who do not
have acquaintances and the possibility of directly organising accommodation
with families should make a note of this in their registration form and we will
organise it for them.
Instead
of a monetary payment, we ask you to kindly celebrate five Holy Masses for this
intention.
It is
necessary to bring with you: your celebret given
by your superior, an alb and stole, a Bible.
Many priests who do not have access to
Internet may not have been informed about the existence of this international meeting
in Medjugorje. Therefore, we kindly ask all Organisers
of pilgrimages, Prayer Groups and Centres for Peace to publish this information
as widely as possible by all means at their disposal, so that as many priests
as possible may participate. In as much as it is possible, we also kindly ask
you to financially assist the priests who would like to come but do not have
the necessary funds for such a journey. We thank you in advance and pray for
God’s blessing and the blessing of the Queen of Peace upon you and your work.
For the purpose of the seminar organization and your
safety, please consider yourself registered for seminar only when you receive
our written confirmation. If you did not receive our reply, it means that we
have not received your application and that you are not registered, because you
forwarded your e-mail to a wrong address or you have got a virus which blocks
your e-mails automatically. Consequently, you may consider yourself registered
for the seminar only if you received a positive response.