18th INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR FOR MARRIED
COUPLES
The 18th International Seminar for married couples
will be held
in Medjugorje from November 8-11,
2017
"That your love may increase ever
more" (Phil 1:9)
In Our Lady's School
Programme:
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
2 pm Registration of the participants
4 pm Introduction to the seminar
5 pm Evening Prayer Programme in the church
Thursday, November 9, 2017
9 am Morning Prayer
9:30 am Lecture,
sharing
2:00 pm Prayer
on
5 pm Evening Prayer Programme in the church
Friday, November 10, 2017
7 am
Prayer on Apparition Hill
9:30 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
11, 2017
9 am Morning Prayer
9:30 am Lecture,
sharing
11 am Experiences and testimonies
12 am Final
Holy Mass
Speakers at the seminar are: fra
Marinko Šakota and p. Mijo Nikić
Father Marinko Šakota
was born in Čitluk in 1968. He completed the elementary school, as well
as the first class of the High school in Čitluk. Then
he felt the Franciscan calling 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 the Jesuit Grammar School in
Dubrovnik where he later graduated. He put on the Franciscan habit on July 15,
p. Mijo Nikić
- a priest, member of the Society of Jesus, born in 1953 in Gornji
Zovik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He comes from a large
family of twelve children. He graduated Psychology and Theology in Zagreb
at Jesuit College. He obtained Master's degree in Abyssal Psychology at
the Papal University Gregoriana in Rome. In
2002, he defended doctor's dissertation at the Catholic Theological Faculty in
Zagreb with theme: "Image of God in the new religious movements".
Ever since 1992, he has been teaching Psychology, Psychology of Religion and
History of Religions at the Faculty of Arts of the Society of Jesus in Zagreb.
He teaches also Sacraments of Reconciliation and Anointment of the Sick,
Mariology and Eschatology at the Theological Institute of the Society of Jesus.
He published several articles in various
magazines and he participates in local and international symposiums. He is
editor of several publications: New religious movements (1997); Reincarnation
and/or Resurrection (1998); Faith and Health (2007); Illness
and health in religions (2011). He published the following books:
Image of God in religious sects and in new religious movements (2003);
Psychology of a family (2004); As seen in the eyes of
psychologist theologian (2015); Biblical Psychotherapy (2015);
How to prevail the fear with faith (2005); Wrong and true images
of God (2011). He has been conducting spiritual exercises for
priests, nuns, families as well as psychological - spiritual seminars for
lawyers, managers and others about the role of the spirituality in stress
management. He is the president of the Foundation Bishop Josip
Lang that cares for poor and elderly people.
He was a member of the Papal Commission for
investigation of Medjugorje phenomenon as the expert
in psychology.
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.