P R O G R A M

Thursday, June 16, 2016

16:00   Registration of participants

            18:00   Evening Prayer Program in the Church

Friday, June 17, 2016

  9:00   Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

              9:30   Lecture

                        Break

                        11:00 Lecture, testimonies

                        12:00 -15:30 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in silence

15:30   Lecture

            18:00   Evening Prayer Program in the Church   

Saturday, June 18, 2016

  6:00   The Way of the Cross on Cross Mountain, preparation for confession

            10:00   Lecture

                        12:00 -15:30 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in silence

15:30   Lecture, testimonies

            18:00   Evening Prayer Program in the Church

            20:00   Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Church

Sunday, June 19, 2016

  6:00   Prayer on Apparition Hill

              9:00   Sharing of the experience by the participants,

                        Holy Mass

          The coordinator of the seminar is Fr. Marinko Šakota,

          parish priest of St. James parish, Medjugorje

The lecturers at the seminar are:

Fr. Ante Vučković, O.F.M.  He was born in Sinj in 1958 into a large family. He is a member of the Franciscan Province of the Most Holy Savior in Split. He attended and completed studies at the classical secondary college and seminary inSinj, while he studied theology in Makarska and Zagreb. He was ordained as a priest in 1983. After serving as a chaplain in Metković and Munich, he studied philosophy in Munich and Rome where he obtained his doctorate on dimensions of hearing of Martin Heidegger. He taught philosophy in Rome at the Pontifical University Antonianum and at the Franciscan faculty of Theology in Makarska. He is a philosophy professor at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Split. He also lectures at the faculty of Philosophy at the same university. He guides spiritual exercises, seminars and spiritual retreats. He is a spiritual counsellor and advisor. He has published a number of books and his works are published in professional and other periodicals.

Zrinka Jelaska, a professor of Croatian language and phonetics from Zagreb is a member of the Third Order Franciscans. She is married and is a mother of two adult children. From her childhood she was raised in faith and in her youthwandered away from God. In Medjugorje her father was inspired to pray for her conversion (praying at least one Hail Mary as he passed Our Lady's image at the 'Stone Door' in Zagreb). When she returned to the Church and started to attenddaily Mass, he jokingly said he over-prayed.

Her life's theme are children in the womb - sensitive, prayerful, intercessory, cognitive. She also wrote two scientific articles about language development during the period of pregnancy.

NOTES:

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR FOR LIFE "Pro-life" will be held in Medjugorje from June 16th to 19th 2016 in the Hall of Saint John Paul II. The number of places is limited due to space restrictions, therefore we kindly ask you to please sign up and confirm your attendance as soon as possible. Registration is by e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For the sake of the organization of the Seminar and your certainty, please consider yourself registered for the Seminar only after receiving return confirmation. If you have not received a response, it means that we have not received your application and that you are not registered because your e-mail may have been sent to the wrong address or due to a virus in your e-mail it was automatically blocked. Therefore, please note that you can consider yourself as registered for the Seminar only after you have received an affirmative answer.

Simultaneous translation for all language groups will be organized. Price of the Seminar is €30 per person and includes all fees for the organization and for the expenses of the Seminar. Upon payment at the beginning of the Seminar, each participant will receive accreditation which will permit participation at the Seminar. Each participant is personally responsible for his own accommodation in Medjugorje.

Since we cannot reach each organizer personally, by this means we invite all organizers of pilgrimages, guides, leaders of Peace Centers and prayer and charity groups to inform those who may be interested in this Seminar.

With joy we look forward to receiving your application and meeting with you!

Source: Medjugorje. hr