SCINTILLA 2008

The Scintilla 2008. Hopefully, this will be released on the first week of August 2008. The draft was already sent to the printer.

Enjoy viewing (and reading) some of the memories of school year 2007-2008.

New Faces, New Seminarians

The New Sophomores


The Freshmen




Just see and observe their faces and see whether one or two remind you of your old classmates or some SANO.

Pictures

The Seniors

The Juniors

The Sophomores

Last June 30, the pilgrim image of INA, Our Lady of Penafrancia, passed by the seminary. She was warmly welcomed by the seminary community including some parents of the seminarians. Fr. Totep Erestain led the prayers.
After the Mass of the Holy Spirit, a community picture was taken. Both departments, High School and College, were present during the shoot. (Just double click on the picture to have at least a "larger" view of the ant-like images. The available digicam during the pictorial was just 3.1 megapixels.)
During the Mass, a special blessing was bestowed upon the seminarian's fathers because the second Sunday of June is also Father's Day.
The seminarians had their last hurrah for the summer. The Day before the start of classes the seminarians went to Bacon beach for the opening of the year outing.

New School Year

The ministry of forming young boys become young men started once again. The school year 2008-2009 kicked off last June 15 with the celebration of the Mass of the Holy Spirit presided over by Bishop Bastes, a week after the seminarians already comfortably settled themselves in their "newly-designated" places in the seminary -- including after being acquainted with their cleaning assignments, chairs and pupitres, dormitories and beds, table assignments and classrooms, and their sitting arrangements both in the chapel and the study hall (June 7 -- entrance date).

Relatively, there were fewer freshmen this year. Only 19 boys among the 24 passers entered. But after only a few days, we already had two casualties (they went out for a reason known to us all -- homesickness). Aside from the 19 freshmen, there were 2 transferees (incoming sophomores).

As of the moment, the community is composed of 17 freshmen, 28 sophomores, 15 juniors, 11 seniors, 3 priest-formators, 1 nun, 4 full-time office personnel, 7 house and kitchen staff, 2 part-time cleric teachers, and 8 part-time teachers. All in all, we are 96 able-bodied and good-spirited members of the seminary community for the school year 2008-2009.

Pictures of the events that transpired this month of June will be posted (soon) later.

These are what we need so far as we started the year -- prayers! prayers! prayers! Other needs will be mentioned later as the year progresses.