35 Candles with friends.

The liturgical memorial of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr of Kraków on this April 11, 2016 was marked with a special stamp in the St Luigi Orione Seminary of Montalban. The reason was simple, Father Stan, Seminary formator, was blowing his 35th candle of life. The celebration which was originally intended to be a simple family ceremony eventually became a celebration of friendship and fraternity. Many friends (s) from the San Rafael Archangel Parish, from Eastwind, ER, Eastwood and the surrounding area took the opportunity to express their sympathy and love to the one our young seminarians affectionately call "the Rector". The party was simply beautiful and rich of emotions. The many messages and wishes received here and there also testify of the fraternity and hospitality of our people and of our faithful Christians. To Father Stan we wish a Happy Birthday and many graces in this new year under the sun. God bless.

 

GRAND ORIONIGHT: DON ORIONE IN ONE WITH THEE

If people will happen to see the appendix XV of the congregation’s prayerbook dedicated to Don Orione, they will discover the sophistication of being a religious. It will say that, “Creativity is not a luxury for literary people, or for those with a taste for words, but it is rather a necessity arising from the need to live one’s own worship of God with a greater awareness, as well as to adjust it to one’s own spirit and to that of the participants by means of a more complex involvement, not only for the group of prayer but also of individuals.” Inspired by the commentaries published to many countries for the congregation’s liturgical worship, the Montalban Community entered also the Holy Week with a commemorative celebration, thanking St. Luigi Orione, our Founder for a prayerful year and steadfast love to everyone in the Community. Last 21^st of March, we have officially closed the academic year 2015-2016 through the Eucharistic Celebration and looking forward for abundant years to come. The concluding mass was presided by Fr. Eucinei Antonio de Souza, the Local Superior concelebrated by Fr. Stan, fdp, Rector of the Seminary and Fr. Stefan, fdp, the Community vicar.