date: 01.03.2015.
The 22nd International Meeting for Organisers of Pilgrimages, Leaders of Peace Centres and Međugorje Prayer and Charity Groups will be held in Medjugorje from the 2nd to the 6th of March 2015. The theme of the gathering is:
"Peace be with you!" (John 20, 21)
In Our Lady's School
PROGRAM
Monday, 2. 03. 2015
15.00 Registration of participants
17.00 Evening Prayer Program in the Church
Tuesday, 3. 03. 2015
9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar
9.30 Lecture
Intermission
11.00 Meeting and discussion with the lecturer
15.00 Work in language groups
17.00 Evening Prayer Program in the Church
21.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar
Wednesday, 4. 03. 2015
9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar
9.30 Lecture, sharing
Intermission
11.00 Meeting and discussion with the lecturer
14.00 Prayer on Cross Mountain
17.00 Evening Prayer Program in the Church
20. 30 Meeting with Parish priest
Thursday, 5. 03. 2015
9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar
9.30 Lecture, sharing
Intermission
11.00 Meeting and discussion with the lecturer
12.30 Lunch for all the participants
15.00 Prayer on Apparition Hill
17.00 Evening Prayer Program in the Church
Friday, 6. 03. 2015
9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar
09:30 - Experiences of the Participants, 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 attended elementary school, as well as the first class of a High school in Čitluk. Then he chose the Franciscan call 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 Jesuit Grammar School in Dubrovnik where he graduated. He put on the Franciscan habit on 15 July 1987 in Humac where he spent a year of 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 made eternal vows in Široki Brijeg in 1993. He was ordained as deacon in Zagreb in 1996 and as a priest in Frohnleiten in 1996. His first served in Franciscan monastery in Innsbruck where he spent a year as an assistant, then as a spiritual assistant in Frohnleiten, and as a chaplain in Augsburg. He has been a chaplain in Mostar for three years, and then a parish priest in Gradnići for seven years. He has been serving as a chaplain in Međugorje since September 2010, and as a parish priest in Međugorje since 2013.
