17th INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR FOR MARRIED
COUPLES
The 17th International Seminar for married couples
will be held
in Medjugorje from November 9-12, 2016
Be merciful, just as also your Father is merciful. (Lk 6, 36)
In Our Lady's School
Programme:
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
2 pm Registration of the participants
4 pm Introduction to the seminar
5 pm Evening Prayer Programme in the church
Thursday, November 10, 2016
9 am Morning Prayer
9:30 am Lecture,
sharing
12 pm Silent
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
3:00 pm Lecture,
sharing
5 pm Evening Prayer Programme in the church
Friday, November 11, 2016
6 am Prayer on
10 am Lecture,
sharing
12 pm Silent
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
3 pm Lecture, sharing
Preparation
for confession
5 pm Evening Prayer Programme in the church
Saturday, November
12, 2016
7 am
Prayer on Apparition Hill
10 am Experiences and testimonies
11:30 am Final
Holy Mass
The seminar coordinator is Fr. Marinko
Šakota.
Speakers at
the seminar are: Father Ivan Filipović and married couples from the Community
Cenacolo
Don Ivan Filipović was 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.
The
seminar will be held in the hall behind the church. Participation per couple
for the seminar is 40 €. Reservations may be made via email: seminar.marija@medjugorje.hr, or
fax on the number: +387 36 651 999 (for Marija Dugandžić). The number of
participants is limited due to the space constraints and therefore we kindly
ask that you send your registrations as soon as possible. In the same way, we
ask that all couples, seminar participants organise their own accommodation in
Međugorje.
For the purpose of the seminar organization and your
own 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 had received a positive response.