MANILA, January 31, 2011—The Knights of Columbus Fr. George J. Willmann Charities, Inc. recently donated ten thousand pesos (P10,000.00) to the SemNet Kapatiran, an annual gathering of the diocesan Seminarian’s Network of the Philippines, Inc. (SemNet Phils.) scheduled this February 5, 2011 at San Jose Seminary and Ateneo de Manila High School covered courts, both located within the Ateneo de Manila University campus at Loyola Heights, Quezon City.
Last January 26, 2011, KC Fr. Willmann Charities’ Executive Director Roberto T. Cruz handed over the Foundation’s check donation to Rev. Fr. Silvino Borres, S.J., Rector of the San Jose Seminary which is the designated host for the 2011 edition of the gathering.
The annual encounter of seminarians, which is now on its ninth year of commemoration, aims not only to foster unity, solidarity and brotherhood among all the Catholic diocesan theology seminarians in the Philippines, but likewise to enkindle in them the impetus to be agents of social renewal making them more aware and better equipped to face the latest challenges posed by current issues and concerns.
The Fr. Willmann Charities itself presently provides educational assistance to forty seminarian-scholars who are taking up their Theology studies in various seminaries nationwide as well as to ten priest-scholars pursuing their Licentiate/Doctorate studies locally and an additional three priest-scholars studying in Rome.
Subject donation to the SemNet Phils. will help defray the costs of bringing together an estimated 600 seminarians from all over the country for the one-day event as well as providing for their food and accommodation services, liturgical celebrations, cultural programs and small-group workshops. (Roberto T. Cruz)