Mary Help of Christians College Seminary: October 2012

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Rector's Circular 6-2012

Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima

13 October 2012

Circular Letter 06-2012

Dear Fathers, Parents, Guardians, Seminarians and Friends,

Today we officially end our first semester of the current school year. We celebrated yesterday by the Talent Show of our Seminarians aptly entitled, “Gifts.” Truly we thank God for the gift of 67 vocations that God has given to the Church. We appreciate their giftedness and we promise our prayers and support for their perseverance in the seminary formation.

We also launched our new fund-raising drive called “Helping Hearts of the Mary Help of Christians College Seminary” or MHCCS-HH. Yesterday more 50 pledges came from our generous guests who promised to support our formation programs by giving one thousand pesos every semester. This will help us, not only in the maintenance of our facilities, but moreso for the formation programs that are our top priorities in the seminary.

Our seminarians are expected to return to the seminary on November 2, and the first activity for your family is the November 18 Prayer Session. The Holy Hour starts at 9:30AM as usual and it will be followed by the Holy Eucharist to be sponsored by the Sophomore Class. There will be a Spiritual Conference for the Families of the Seminarians in the afternoon. Therefore not only the parents are encouraged to attend but your entire family. It is now seen that your presence to these Prayer Sessions are very important for the vocations of your seminarian-sons.

Coming up this November is the “Blessed John Paul II Philosophy Week” from November 29-30. More than 8 college seminaries from Northern Luzon are converging in Bonuan Seminary for this very important academic event.

Finally as your seminarian-sons go home, let me again remind you to spend quality time with them and accompany them especially in their prayers and attendance at Holy Masses. I also repeat that medical and dental check-ups are to be scheduled during the semestral break. Your children are seminarians and they should not be encouraged to live in too much comfort and care. The spirit of sacrifice must always be inculcated in their hearts in view of their future ministry especially to the poor. Nonetheless, the vacation should truly be a time for rest, relaxation and recreation for them so that they may be ready to face another challenge this coming second semester.

May Mary, Help of Christians, always pray for us.

Very truly yours in Christ,

Fr. Mario Dominic C. Sanchez

Rector

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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Friday, October 26, 2012

Year of Faith

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Rector's Circular 6-2012

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

BLESSED JOHN PAUL II Philosophy Week

INVITATION FOR PHILOSOPHY WEEK

Monday, October 1, 2012

Prayer for Vocations