The Redemptoris Mater Missionary Seminary

of the Archdiocese of Toronto cordially invites you all

to the 17th Annual Fundraising Dinner

You are also cordially invited to the

Join us finally in celebrating their

FIRST MASSES

on Sunday, May 12, 2019

Fr. Mauricio Gilo Sanjines Calatayud	Fr. Eduardo de Oliveira Paixao
Blessed Trinity Parish (3220 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, M2M 3R7, ON; Tel. 416-226-0262) 12:15 Noon	Our Lady of Grace Parish (15347 Yonge Street, Aurora, L4G 1N7, ON; Tel. 905-727-4594) 12:00 Noon
Fr. Joao Gilberto Veras Ferreira	Fr. Renan Roberto Costa
St. Mary of the Angels Parish (1481 Dufferin Street, Toronto, M6H 4C7, ON; Tel. 416-532-4779) 12:00 Noon	Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish (694 Weston Road, Toronto, M6N 3R2, ON; Tel. 416-767-8658) 12:00 Noon

THE REDEMPTORIS MATER MISSIONARY SEMINARY (RMMS)

OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO

The diocesan and missionary “Redemptoris Mater” Seminaries correspond to the new reality hoped for by the Second Vatican Council, when it affirmed:

The spiritual gift which priests receive at their ordination prepared them not for a sort of limited and narrow mission but for the widest possible and universal mission of salvation “even to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8), for every priestly ministry shares in the universality of the mission entrusted by Christ to his apostles. The priesthood of Christ, in which all priests really share, is necessarily intended for all peoples and all times, and it knows no limits of blood, nationality or time, since it is already mysteriously prefigured in the person of Melchisedech. Let priests remember, therefore, that the care of all churches must be their intimate concern. Hence, priests of such dioceses as are rich in vocations should show themselves willing and ready, with the permission of their own ordinaries (bishops), to volunteer for work in other regions, missions or endeavors which are poor in numbers of clergy […] To accomplish this purpose there should be set up international seminaries […] by means of which, according to their particular statutes and always saving the right of bishops, priests may be trained and incardinated for the good of the whole Church (Presbyterorum Ordinis, § 10).

Under the inspiration of St. John Paul II, Pope, the first “Redemptoris Mater” Seminary was erected in Rome, in 1987. In 1991, the Interdicasterial Commission created by him acknowledged how such a conciliar idea found an answer and actualization in this kind of Seminaries, which, following the modalities of the Neocatechumenal Way, form candidates to the priesthood according to a new form of ministry, that of the “diocesan missionary” for the New Evangelization (cf. L’Osservatore Romano, 15.03.1991).