date: 04.07.2017.
The 22nd International Seminar for Priests began in Medjugorje on July 3, with the evening prayer programme and more than 250 participants from 28 countries gathered on the first day. They came from England, Ireland, South Africa, Serbia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Albania, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland, France, Le Reunion, Congo, Togo, Benin, Ivory Coast, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Fr. Ivan Filipovic, lecturer at the seminar celebrated the solemn Holy Mass at the White Dome of the St. James’ church. The coordinator is Fr. Marinko Sakota, the parish priest, while the theme is "That your love may increase ever more" (Phil 1:9). The seminar will finish on Saturday, July 8. The first Seminar was held by late Fr. Slavko Barbaric in 1996 when about 30 priests gathered, but the number kept increasing each year more and more. Parishioners of Medjugorje are providing the free accommodation to the priests from all over the world, as they do each year. (photos)
