BLESSING OF EXPECTANT MOTHERS

Will be next weekend; on the May 31 & June 1 weekend during Saturday 5.00PM, Sunday 8.30 & 10.30AM Masses.

FIRST THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY

Next  week we celebrate – First Thursday  June 5th - a day of special prayer for our priests, religious & seminarians. After 6.00PM Holy Mass, we expose the Blessed Sacrament and we celebrate THE HOLY HOUR.  First Friday -   June 6th . After the Holy Masses, we expose the Blessed

Sacrament and recite the Litany to the Sacred Heart, followed by Benediction. First Saturday - June 7th. After 8.00AM Mass, there will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and the Litany to the Blessed Virgin Mary will be recited.

HOLY MASS INTENTIONS  

We still have empty spots for Holy Mass intentions at the beginning of  June. If you would like to have Holy Mass celebrated for your intentions, or for your loved ones, (living  or dead), please contact the Parish Office.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Seminary

of the Institute of Christ the King in Gricigliano,

near Florence/Italy

 

Studies and manual works

Our seminarians not only live in the seminary, which includes in its facilities a huge refectory and a big kitchen, but the seminary serves also as their place of intellectual work and study. For this reason, the superiors had to install in another wing of the building appropriate classrooms and also a conference hall with up-to-date teaching equipment. Professors of Roman Universities, of the Sorbonne and of the IPC Philosophical Faculty in Paris and also some of our own priests with academic degrees teach a one-year course of Spirituality, a two-year course of Philosophy, and a four-year course of Theology as an obligatory formation of all our candidates to the priesthood. Those members that are not preparing themselves for priestly ordination do, nevertheless, share part of this formation in a five-year period with selected courses chosen for them by their superiors. The intellectual formation is accompanied by a thoroughly human formation, which includes general culture, priestly manners, and quite an extensive amount of daily practical work in house and garden. This combination has turned out to be very efficient for the complete education of mind and body that we want to give to our candidates. A purely intellectual formation is never sufficient for a priest. If it does not go along with a profound prayer life and the humility to accept practical duties and fulfill them well, the personality of the priest would certainly remain insufficiently formed.

A community life style

For young men it is especially important to learn that everyone who lives in a family whether it be a small or big community has to take over responsibilities for the other, but he also has to learn how to integrate his life into the discipline that is the foundation of true charity towards others. It is not always easy, and it will cost sacrifice and mortification of the will, but in the end through free obedience and hard work, it will give everyone joy and satisfaction.

Prayer-life

Without any doubt the most important element in seminary life is daily contact with the Lord in the Holy Mass, the Holy Office, the Rosary, and personal meditation. The seminarians get to know not only the history and the rubrics of the Sacred Liturgy but also its inner meaning and its great power for their spiritual lives. Every single gesture has a profound signification and every detail of the liturgy counts when it comes to our relationship with the Lord.

Corpus Christi 2008

Sunday, May 25th, 12:30 pm

The External Solemnity of the feast of Corpus Christi will be held on Sunday, May 25th, at 12:30 pm. Please join us during this most important Eucharistic celebration and tell your family members and friends to come!