St. Benedict Formation House-Belize

Our diocesan seminarians along with Fr. Jordan Gongora, Diocesan Administrator.
Seminarians spend days of fraternity and prayer. Pray for our seminarians!

Congratulations to our seminarian Nathaniel Cocom who graduated from Sacred Heart Junior College, San Ignacio Town, on Saurday June 21, 2025. We pray for his advancement to further studies abroad.

Good Shepherd Sunday. Lord, send us more priests to lead your people.

We give thanks and praise to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit for our new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV. May 8th 2025.

Brief reflection- The White Smoke.
When you see the WHITE SMOKE...don't think of power, don't rush to give your opinion.
Instead kneel and pray because the one who will come out from the central Balcony of St. Peter’s will not receive a title but a cross. Not a winner but a sacrificial lamb.
When you see the WHITE SMOKE, the new Pope will probably be at the “chapel of tears “ beside the Sistine chapel, crying, asking God “why him.” He will provide God with a list of his weaknesses but God will have mercy.
That man will die in the office. He will carry the full burden of the office, of the Universal Church. He will work until he is too old and too frail. He will not have retirement. He will die and his death is part of the job. He will absolutely need our prayers more than ever.
When you see the WHITE SMOKE, pray for that brother, our new Pope.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine on him, may Pope Francis rest in peace.

The Diocesan clergy of Belize held their annual retreat at the formation house, February 24 to 28, 2025. Directed by Bishop John Persaud, Bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica.

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