Through the Years...Bishop Ataviado with meager funds started laying the foundation of a formation house of his future collaborators, the priests, in 1970. He at first housed the young seminarians at his own newly constructed Bishop's residence where they were trained in all aspects of life necessary to become effective and faithful servants of the Lord in the future.
The new Bishop came to take possession of the diocese after the death of Bishop Ataviado. The new Bishop Precioso Cantillas never lost time in getting closer to the diocesan seminary, the apple of his eye, as canonists put it. Being an administrator himself in the past, Bishop Cantillas devised plans to improve the quality of formation of his minor seminarians. Thus, starting this time, seminarians were never that more closely monitored in their development as young men and as future priests. The devotion to the Holy Mass and to the Blessed Virgin Mary marked the liturgical and spiritual life of the seminarians. The periodic outing to woods or mountains or seas fostered camaraderie of future priests or future public servants. |
Integral Formation
Being the seedbed of vocation to the priesthood for the Diocese of Maasin, the Pope Paul VI Minor Seminary nurtures the seed of priestly vocation through integral formation taking into consideration his physical, affective, intellectual, socio-cultural, and spiritual development.