19th INTERNATIONAL MEETING FOR ORGANISERS OF PILGRIMAGES, LEADERS OF PEACE CENTRES AND MEDJUGORJE PRAYER AND CHARITY GROUPS

date: 01.03.2012.

The nineteenth International Meeting for Organisers of Pilgrimages, Leaders of Peace Centres and Međugorje Prayer and Charity Groups will be held in Medjugorje from the 4th to the 8th of March 2012. The theme of the gathering is:

 “…I do belive, help my unbelief!” (Mark 9: 24)

PROGRAM


Sunday, 4. 03. 2012

14.00  Registration of participants

 17.00  Evening Prayer Program in the Church


Monday, 5. 03. 2012

9.00     Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar

 9.30     Lecture, sharing: Fr. Marinko Šakota

                   Intermission

 11.00     Meeting and discussion with the lecturer

 5.00     Work in language groups

 17.00     Evening Prayer Program in the Church

 20.30   Meeting with Parish priest

 


Tuesday, 6. 03. 2012

9.00      Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar

 9.30      Lecture, sharing: Fr. Ante Vučković

         Intermission   

 11.00   Meeting and discussion with the lecturer

 15.00   Prayer on Apparition Hill

 17.00   Evening Prayer Program in the Church

   


Wednesday, 7. 03. 2012 

9.00      Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar

 9.30      Lecture, sharing: Fr. Dario Dodig

         Intermission   

 11.00   Meeting and discussion with the lecturer

 14.00    Prayer on Cross Mountain

 17.00     Evening Prayer Program in the Church

 21.00     Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar


Thursday, 8. 03. 2012

9.00     Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar

         Prayer, Closing Holy Mass

 12.30  Lunch for all the participants 

  

Lecturers at this year's seminar are:


Fr. Marinko Šakota  was born in Čitluk, in 1968. He attended elementary school and the first grade of high school in  Čitluk.

 Then he decided to live the Franciscan calling, so he enrolled in the Franciscan seminary in Visoko, where he completed his second grade of high school. He completed the last two grades at the Jesuit High School in Dubrovnik, where he also graduated. He adorned the Franciscan habit on 15 July 1987 in Humac, where he spent a year of his novitiate. He began his studies of philosophy and theology at the Franciscan Theology in Sarajevo (1989–1990), then continued his studies at the Jesuit Academy in Zagreb (1990-1992), and completed them in Fulda, Germany in 1995, where he also earned his degree.  He took his permanent vows in  Široki Brijeg in 1993. He was ordained a deacon in Zagreb in 1996, and a priest in Frohnleiten in 1996. He first served at the Franciscan monastery in Innsbruck where he spent a year assisting. Then he was a spiritual assistant in Frohnleiten, and served as a chaplain in Augsburg. He spent three years serving as a chaplain in Mostar, and then seven years as a priest in Gradnići. Since September 2010 he has served as a chaplain in Međugorje.



Fr. Ante Vučković. Ph. D.   Born in 1958 I Sinj into a large family. He is a member of the Franciscan Province of the Most Holy Saviour with its seat in Split. He attended and completed studies at the classical secondary college and seminary in Sinj, while he studied theology in Makarska and Split. He was ordained as a priest in 1983. After serving as a chaplain in Metković and Munich, he studied philosophy in Munich and Rome where he obtained his doctorate in the dimensions of hearing with Martin Heidegger. He taught philosophy in Rome at the Pontifical University Antonianum and at the Franciscan Divinity School in Makarska. He is a professor at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Split. He also lectures at the Philosophical department of the same university. He is the head of spiritual exercises, seminars and spiritual retreats. He is a spiritual companion and advisor. He has published a number of books. He is published in professional and populist periodicals.  




Fr. Dario Dodig  was born in Ljubuški, in 1973. He attended elementary and high school in Ljubuški. In 1992 he joined the postulature in Široki Brijeg, and in  1993 he adorned the Franciscan habit in Humac. From 1994-1998 he studied at the Zagreb Catholic Faculty of Theology. He took his permanent vows in Mostar, in 1997. He was ordained a deacon in  Chicago, in 1999, and a priest in Norval, Canada. From 1999-2005 he was actively involved with the Franciscan Youth organizing seminars on spiritual renewal, youth platforms, Sunday school in the parish and in state schools. From 2005-2010 he served as a monasterial and parochial vicar in charge of the construction of church facilities and actively involved in various pastoral activities. In  2010 he became a parish priest in Čerin. Throughout all these years he has been an editor of the Međugorje Mir radio station and of other media as well.