SPIRITUAL LIFE AND ACTIVITIES
The wisdom family blossoms in spiritual activities. The Main Chapel is her beacon of unity where the entire Wisdom family assembles for community prayers and worship, particularly on Special Feasts, Solemnities, Eucharistic celebrations on Sundays, Solemn Vespers, and the Weekly Sexts (Midday Prayers during the week). There are also portable chapels (all of which were consecrated on Monday January 15th 1990) adjoining each of the three Hostels wherein Weekday masses, Weekday Lauds (Morning Prayers during the week), Weekend Sexts (Afternoon Prayers over the weekend), Weekday Vespers (Evening Prayers during the week), and Complines (Night Prayers) are celebrated. Weekday masses in the three hostel chapels are simultaneously celebrated and presided by different priests on the staff according to a weekly Roster schedule. Each hostel houses a mixture of seminarians in both the philosophy and theology departments, who together celebrate masses and spiritual exercises commonly at the respective hostel chapels. There is also another chapel built for the members of the non-tutorial staff. This chapel is usually put in use on Sundays. There is also the “House System” by which seminarians are grouped in different cells (houses) of not more than forty seminarians. These houses gather every Tuesday evenings at different meeting points in the Seminary compound to worship together (for the Eucharistic celebration) as different small Christian community of Seminarians. Other spiritual activities in our seminar include the weekly Thursday Spiritual Conferences, the weekly Confessions, monthly Recollections on First Sundays of the month, and Spiritual Directions at the discretion of the seminarians, and Retreats at the beginning as well as end of every Academic and Formation Year. Seat of Wisdom is also blessed with the animating services of such pious sodalities as Sacred Heart of Jesus, St. Jude, St. Anthony, St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, St. Vincent de Paul, Legion of Mary, Pioneer Total Abstinence, Blue Army, Divine Mercy as well as Movements like Blessed Tansi Solidarity, Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Catholic Biblical Instructors Union, and Slaves of Love.
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