MAJOR SEMINARY TO BE INAUGURATED IN BELARUS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 12, 2001 (VIS) - Made public today was the text of a Letter from John Paul II to Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek, archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus, on the occasion of the upcoming inauguration of the Interdiocesan Major Seminary of Pinsk.

In the Letter, written in Latin and dated July 25, John Paul II expressed his hope that the seminary "become, in the first place, a house of unceasing invocation for vocations and for priests."

The Holy Father noted the importance of "the care of aspiring priests: it supposes above all an insistent and faithful prayer to the 'Lord of the harvest', to 'send out laborers into His harvest', and then requires a patient and attentive educative action, which accompanies and sustains every individual called in his human and Christian growth."

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