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The Foundation of the Virgin of El Escorial: Vocational Community
 
Seminarians studying in the House of Formation of the Work of the Virgin of El Escorial. (Click on the picture to expand it).

Seminarians studying in the House of Formation of the Work
of the Virgin of El Escorial. (Click on the picture to expand it).
The Vocational Community:  «This branch of the community consists of unmarried or widowed men who are called to live in Community according to the three evangelical counsels: poverty, chastity and obedience» (art. 35º, Constitutions).  «Its aim is the cultivation and experience of a private vocation of self offering to God: priesthood, religious life, apostolate, life of prayer, study and retreat» (art. 36º, Ibid.).

Those who feel called to the consecrated life belong to this branch; and those who, after proper discernment, offer themselves to become priests, as well as those who are already consecrated to God according to the three evangelical counsels, such as the brethren of other religious congregations.  The last live in prayer and work according to the Constitutions.  The former, particularly the seminarians, live in the House of Formation of El Escorial, authorized by the Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, where they study and live.  They attend the Theological Faculty «San Dámaso» daily.  During their holiday periods they complete their formation by participating in the different works of the Public Association of Faithful Repairers.

Group of seminarians with the chaplains and other priests in the House of Formation of El Escorial. (Clique na fotografia para ampliá-la).

Group of seminarians with the chaplains and other priests in the
House of Formation of El Escorial. (Click on the picture to expand it).

Members of the Vocational Community in a moment of manual work. (Clique na fotografia para ampliá-la).

Members of the Vocational Community in a moment
of manual work. (Click on the picture to expand it).

At present, the Vocational Community has 25 members; 7 of them are seminarians.  Of the eight priests connected with the Work of the Virgin of El Escorial, two are chaplains of the Public Association of Faithful «Repairers of Our Lady of Sorrows», named by the current Cardinal of Madrid, D. Antonio María Rouco Varela.  Their mission is to monitor the fidelity of this Institution to the Church, and to contribute to the achievement of the aim of the Public Association: the sanctification of its members and the expansion of the Kingdom of Christ inside the Church and with its approval.  The other priests serve several parishes and hospital chaplaincies and the like, collaborating with other priests in diocesan activities.

At least twenty priests are known to consider their vocation to have been born in this place of blessings; it is impossible to give the exact number, so regular are reports made of persons who believe that their priestly vocational call was associated with this place of pilgrimage.  It should be noted too that from the Public Association of Faithful Repairers other young people (boys and girls) have also been called to live the religious life in different diocesan and religious institutions.

  
 


 
     
 
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