Mary Help of Christians College Seminary: May 2009

Sunday, May 10, 2009

IMPROVEMENTS

This summer, Msgr. Mario R. Morales, our Rector has worked on some major repairs in the seminary. Here are the most important projects. Thanks to all the benefactors of the Damaskus (play) and to Ms. San Jose. Thanks also to Mrs. Leila Cruz and her family (St. Joseph Drug Stores) for continuing to support and maintain our seminary library.

The chapel has a new ceiling, and is being re-painted.

The entire building has new windows.

Here are two new shrines in front of the chapel building:

The Crucifix

Our Lady, Mater Purissima (bust sculpture by ALD's Archbishop in the 1960s, +Msgr. Mariano Madriaga).

THE MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS COLLEGE SEMINARY

The Mary Help of Christians College Seminary is the Collegiate Seminary of the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan. It hopes to bring to the Priesthood those who have been called, and to bring them an adequate training, namely, with a conscious and free response of adherence and involvement of their whole person with Jesus Christ who calls them to intimacy of life with him and to share in His mission of salvation. (Pastores Dabo Vobis, n. 42)

Its aim is the more explicit and fuller development of a vocation to the priesthood, as it prepares young men for higher theological studies and eventually, for priestly service in the Archdiocese.

It offers a program of studies leading to the degree of Bachelor in Arts with concentration in Philosophy.

Through its varied curricular and co-curricular activities it hopes to produce graduates who would be:

· Responsible and free, creatively effective and committed Catholic Filipinos.

· Educated to love the truth, to be loyal, to respect every person.

· Just and true to their word, genuinely compassionate, men of integrity and balanced in judgment and behavior.

· Men of communion: affable, hospitable, sincere, prudent and discreet, generous and ready to serve, capable of opening himself to clear and brotherly relationship and of encouraging the same in others, quick to understand, to forgive and to console.

· Professionally competent and able to contribute fruitfully to the building of a more human world and equipped with the following skills; the ability to observe, analyze, interpret communicate intelligently and clearly, organize and effectively lead.

· Men who have learned to live in intimate and unceasing union with God; who live His Paschal Mystery in such a way that they will know how to initiate into it the people committed to their charge; who seek Christian in His Word and the Sacred Mysteries of the Church.

The Mary Help of Christians College Seminary, though seen as a place and a period in life, is above all an educational ecclesial community in progress. It is a community established by the Bishop to offer to those called by the Lord to serve as Apostles the possibility of re-living the experience of formation, which our Lord provided for the Twelve Apostles.

Christian community life is an integral content of the Mary Help of Christians College Seminary program of formation and is to found and pervade all its aspects. The integration of human experiences with Christian Life in a climate of mutual trust, fraternal concern and communion lived in an atmosphere of prayer is the fundamental thrust of MHCCS’s Formation.

The specific goal determines its features; the vocational accompanying of future priests, and therefore discernment of a vocation, the help to respond to it, and the preparation to receive the Sacred Order as imparted in the Theologate. It is then committed to a holistic formation: the human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral formation of future priests.

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Sunday, May 10, 2009

IMPROVEMENTS