ASIA/INDONESIA - Sustaining the quality of life in minor Seminaries: the commitment of a Catholic organization INDONESIA 2021-05-05
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Caring for and managing the collective funding programs to support minor Seminaries in Indonesia: this is the mission of GOTAUS , an initiative born within the Indonesian Catholic community to maintain a high quality of life in the 40 institutes which in the various Indonesian dioceses, they deal with the formation of adolescents on the path to the priesthood. GOTAUS (acronym for Gerakan Orangtua Asuh Untuk Seminaries , that is to say Parents Missionary Program for Seminaries ) celebrates its twentieth year of existence in 2021. It was born at the beginning of the millennium as a private, non-profit Catholic organization, to provide financial assistance and above all to meet the basic needs of food, health, study of at least 3,700 minor seminarians in Indonesia , explains to Agenzia Fides Royani Lim, membe
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Indonesian bishop appeals for more priests
Youth commission chief challenges young people to have the courage to answer God s calling
The head of the Indonesian bishops’ Commission for Youth, Bishop Pius Riana Prapdi of Ketapang. (Photo supplied)
The head of the Indonesian bishops’ Commission for Youth has called on young Catholics to take up church vocations.
Bishop Pius Riana Prapdi of Ketapang issued the call in an April 25 letter to mark the World Day of Vocations and to try an address a shortage of people entering the country’s seminaries.
He quoted Pope Francis’ 2019 post-synodal apostolic exhortation
Christus Vivit (Christ is Alive) and said that young people “are for God” and “God has decided that they should also be for others.”