{"id":51641,"date":"2026-11-04T11:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/?p=51641"},"modified":"2026-11-04T11:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:56:59","slug":"rezar-pelos-seminarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/rezar-pelos-seminarios\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray for the seminaries."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Portugal, the week of prayer for seminaries is celebrated from November 1st to 8th. This year&#039;s chosen theme is: \u201c<strong><em>A community that prays, a seminary that flourishes.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/CF1.jpg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/CF1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/cpps.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/CF1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cpps.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/CF1-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: LF (2018)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Missionaries of the Precious Blood have their Major Seminary in Guinea-Bissau, with 5 young seminarians. In Africa, the CPPS Missionaries are present in Guinea-Bissau and Tanzania. In these two countries, young men are responding to the vocational call and discerning their calling with the help of formators, missionary priests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Iberian Province has already experienced times of vocational abundance, in which minor seminaries operated simultaneously in Fuente de Cantos (Spain), Vila Vi\u00e7osa and Proen\u00e7a a Nova (Portugal), and major seminaries in C\u00e1ceres and Madrid (Spain), and Verride (Portugal). Currently, the CPPS Missionaries keep their houses open and available for those who feel a vocational calling and wish to discern their calling based on the spirituality of the Most Precious Blood, or who wish to dedicate their lives to a mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the pastoral letter from the Portuguese Episcopal Commission for Vocations and Ministries, the following challenge emerges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c&quot;Valuing the image of the good sower, prayer is the seed that many sow persistently, even without knowing the soil, in which they only trust and recognize potential. Pray, pray, sow, sow!&quot;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us pray for all seminaries, especially for the Missionaries of the Precious Blood.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Em Portugal celebra-se a semana de ora\u00e7\u00e3o pelos semin\u00e1rios de 1 a 8 de Novembro. Este ano o lema escolhido \u00e9: \u201cComunidade que reza, semin\u00e1rio que floresce\u201d. Os Mission\u00e1rios do Precios\u00edssimo Sangue t\u00eam o seu Semin\u00e1rio Maior em Guin\u00e9 Bissau, com 5 jovens seminaristas. Em \u00c1frica os Mission\u00e1rios CPPS est\u00e3o presentes em Guin\u00e9 Bissau e [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,122,147],"tags":[308,228,249,309,148],"class_list":["post-51641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-preciosissimo-sangue","category-vida-consagrada","category-vocacoes","tag-casa-de-formacao","tag-comunidade","tag-oracao","tag-seminarios","tag-vocacoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51645,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51641\/revisions\/51645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}