By Florida Catholic staff - Florida Catholic
Photographer: COURTESY | Sr. Elizabeth Worley
Archbishop Thomas Wenski speaks before blessing a new building at the Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary in Hialeah, Dec. 10, 2020. Next to him, at left, is Father Emanuele De Nigris, the seminary's rector and also pastor of St. Cecilia Parish, where the seminary is located.
Photographer: COURTESY | Sr. Elizabeth Worley
Archbishop Thomas Wenski blesses a new building at the Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary in Hialeah, Dec. 10, 2020.
Photographer: COURTESY | Sr. Elizabeth Worley
Standing on the second floor, Archbishop Thomas Wenski blesses a new building at the Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary in Hialeah, Dec. 10, 2020.
HIALEAH | Archbishop Thomas Wenski blessed a new building Dec. 10, 2020, at Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary, which is located on the grounds of St. Cecilia Church in Hialeah.
Father Emanuele De Nigris, rector of the seminary and pastor of St. Cecilia, explained that the new addition is actually a renovated apartment building, formerly eight apartments on two floors, that is located 10 feet away from the rectory of St. Cecilia. This building will become the new wing of the seminary, with bedrooms for 16 seminarians and two priests, plus a new meeting room and a new laundry.
Redemptoris Mater Seminary, which opened Dec. 11, 2011, is for men who came to discover their vocation through the Neocatechumenal communities in their home parishes. Once ordained, they will be incardinated in the Archdiocese of Miami and work in the parishes of the archdiocese or any other place in the world where Miami's archbishop decides to send them.
The Neocatechumenal Way was defined by Pope John Paul II as "an itinerary of Catholic formation, valid for our society and for our times."
Photographer: COURTESY | Sr. Elizabeth Worley
Seminarians sing as Archbishop Thomas Wenski blesses a new building at the Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary in Hialeah, Dec. 10, 2020.
