A great mission area: Solomon Islands
Dear all, With much gladness and joy, I want to share with all, and especially with my Religious Family, some reflections on our mission in the Solomon Islands. By God’s grace, I stayed in the island of Wagina for more than one month accompanying Fr. Humberto Villa, IVE, Parish Priest [...]
Thomistic Studies | Part 1: Man, on confines between time and Eternity
Man occupies a very special place in the Divine Economy, as the only creature willed for his own sake as the Catechism, quoting Vatican II’s Gaudium et spes so eloquently puts it. The entire, material universe, as the book of Genesis relates was created just for him so that he [...]
Voces Verbi Formation Day in the Philippines
The youth group of our Religious Family of the Incarnate Word is called the Voces Verbi, from the Latin, meaning the Voices of the Word. This is taken from a phrase from St. Augustine who says that anyone who announces the Gospel is a voice of the Word. Our meeting [...]
Institution to the Ministries of Lector and Acolyte
Pope Paul IV in Ministeria Quaedam suppressed the Minor Orders and created the new ministries of Lector and Acolyte which assumed the functions proper to the old minor order of Subdeacon. His Excellency Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa, visited our seminary confer on six seminarians the ministry of Lector and [...]
Profession of Perpetual Vows
During the Feast of the Chinese Martyrs, of St. Joseph Zhang Wenlan, Cheng Changping, Luo Tingyin who are the co-patrons of our Seminary of Our Lady of Sheshan, Brothers Benjamin Gnanapragasam and Jayapaul Polysetti professed their perpetual vows in the Institute of the Incarnate Word. In [...]
Opening of the Academic Year
The Academic Year of the Seminary began with the Lectio Brevis which was given this year by Fr. Miguel Soler, IVE, our Provincial Superior. The topic of the presentation was the Blessed Virgin Mary in Revelation and he explained the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the beginning as [...]