Report on the 2011 Seminar - Medjugorje-mir,mir,mir

18th INTERNATIONAL MEETING FOR ORGANISERS OF PILGRIMAGES, LEADERS OF PEACE CENTRES AND MEDJUGORJE PRAYER AND CHARITY GROUPS. March 2011

The theme of the gathering was:

“…I am with you always, even unto the end of the world” (Mt 28, 20).

Fr. Tomislav Pervan was born on the 8th of November, 1946 in Citluk. He completed elementary school in Citluk, Franciscan high school and seminary in Visoko (Bosnia), graduating in 1964. He adorned the Franciscan habit in the same year, while he attended philosophy-theology studies in the Franciscan seminary in Sarajevo and the Franciscan seminary in Schwaz, Austria. He was ordained a priest in Austria on 21.11.1969. From 1970 – 1972 he was a catechist and seminarian instructor in Humac. He attended postgraduate studies in Germany and Austria, earning his doctorate in theology in 1976 at the University in Graz, Austria. He served as a seminarian instructor, catechist and chaplain in Humac (Ljubuški), from 1982 – 1988 he was the Parish priest in Medjugorje. From 1988 he was in charge of the instruction and education of seminarians in Mostar, from 1990 he was the Provincial vicar, while from 1994 – 2001 the Provincial of the Franciscans in Hercegovina. From 2003 he has served as a parish chaplain in Medjugorje.

Fr. Mate Dragicevic was born on the 23rd October 1949 in Miletina, in the Parish of Medjugorje. He completed elementary school in Miletina and Jablanica, Franciscan high school and seminary in Visoko (Bosnia), graduating in 1967. He adorned the Franciscan habit in the same year, while he attended philosophy-theology studies in the Franciscan seminary in Sarajevo and the Franciscan seminary in Würzburg, Germany. He was ordained a priest in Austria on 29.06.1974. He served as a seminarian educator in Germany and novice instructor in Humac, as the Head of the Council for Spirituality, and on two occasions he was the Definitor of the Province, and from 1994 to 1997 was the Provincial vicar. He served as a chaplain and parish priest in parishes of the Hercegovina Franciscan Province at home and abroad. He is currently serving as an abbot in Mostar.

Fr. Danko Perutina, born in Sarajevo in 1970. Having completed elementary and high school, he joined the Franciscan Order of the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina in 1991. He studied theology in Zagreb. He was ordained in Norval, Canada in 1999. He served as parish chaplain and assistant seminarian instructor in Humac between 1999 and 2001 and parish chaplain in Medjugorje between 2001 and 2002. He studied Mariology in Rome and earned his Master's degree at the Pontifical Marianum Theological Faculty, on the topic of: "The Virgin Mary in Intellectual and Spiritual Education". He has been the deputy instructor of novices and postulants since June 2005 and has served as parish chaplain in Medjugorje since 2007.