date: 03.07.2011.
The 16th International Priests Seminar will be held in Međugorje
From 4th to 9th July 2011 on the theme of: "THE PRIEST AND THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILLIATION – CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES"
SEMINAR PROGRAMME
July 4th 2011, Monday
13. 00 – 18. 00 Registration of participants (New hall)
18.00 BEGINNING OF THE SEMINAR
(Prayer of the Rosary, Holy Mass, Prayer for health of body and soul, Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary)
July 5th 2011, Tuesday
8.30 Laudes in Latin and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
9, 00 Lecture, prayer
12, 00 Break ( Silent Adoration)
15,30 Lecture, prayer
18.00 Evening programme (Rosary, Holy Mass, Prayer for health of body and soul, Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary)
July 6th 2011, Wednesday
8.30 Laudes in Latin and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
9, 00 Lecture, prayer
12, 00 Break ( Silent Adoration)
15,30 Lecture, prayer
18.00 Evening programme (Rosary, Holy Mass, Prayer for health of body and soul, Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary)
22.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
July 7th 2011, Thursday
6.00 Rosary at the Apparition Hill
9. 30 Lecture, prayer
12, 00 Break (Silent Adoration)
15.30 Lecture, prayer
18.00 Evening programme (Rosary, Holy Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament)
July 8th 2011, Friday
6.00 Way of the Cross on Križevac, confessions
15. 30 Lecture, prayer
18.00 Evening programme (Rosary, Holy Mass,Veneration of the Holy Cross )
July 9th 2011, Saturday
08.30 Laudes at fr. Slavko Barbarić's tomb
09.00 Sharing of experiences, suggestions and testimonies
CONCLUSION OF THE SEMINAR WITH HOLY MASS AT 12,00
The coordinator of the seminar is Fr. Miljenko Šteko.
The lecturer is Tonči Matulić was born in 1966. He is a full professor of moral theology and the social teachings of the Church at the Catholic Theological Faculty (KBF) of the University of Zagreb. He studied theology in Split and Zagreb and was ordained as a priest in 1992. He received a Master's degree in moral theology from the Academia Alphonsiana of the Pontifical Lateran University in 1995 and a PhD in moral theology from the same institution in 1998. He has also completed studies in the field of bioethics at the Institute of Bioethics of the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, at the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., at the Pontifical Institute for the Study of Matrimony and the Family of the Pontifical Lateran University, and at the Institute of Bioethics.
He teaches the following courses: Basic Moral Theology II (KBF); Bioethics, Sexual and Marital Morality (KBF); Social Teaching of the Church II (KBF); Basic Moral Theology (Catechist Institute – KI) and Special Moral Theology (KI). He has participated for several years in public discussions on the challenges of bioethics. In his scientific research he develops and promotes a critical awareness on the importance of and the need for an interdisciplinary dialogue in resolving the pressing challenges of bioethics.
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 all the years to date. 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 themselves 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 Mass intentions.
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 Organizers 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.
