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supported by the SPA in England and Wales
The SPA
worldwide
supports every seminary in mission
dioceses throughout the world. The SPA in
England and Wales supports a portion of these
seminaries, five of which are where we offer our
sponsorship scheme. All contributions
received through donations,
legacies
and sponsorships are sent directly to the
seminaries to help them train priests for the
Church of today and tomorrow.
Your support
The sums for distribution in 2005 were (in US
dollars $):
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India |
227,434 |
Kenya |
143,765 |
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Malawi |
53,200 |
Nigeria |
679,796 |
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Sri Lanka |
103,380 |
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A share was also sent to Myanmar:
200,000
News from the Seminaries
St Peter’s, Malawi
Fr George Buleya, Rector, writes: ‘We would like
to extend our deepest gratitude to all our
friends and supporters, especially the SPA, who
help to keep the seminary going. It is largely
through their support that many young men from a
variety of backgrounds have responded to God’s
call to work in his vineyard. Rest assured of
our prayers for you.’
Our Lady of Lanka, Sri Lanka
Rector, Fr Anthony Jayakody, writes: ‘We have
made a number of efforts to broad-base our means
of income with a view to attaining
self-sufficiency. On our farm we are
concentrating on ways to harness land in
cultivation and animal husbandry, and
constructing new water tanks to make better use
of rainwater. We pray for our benefactors in
our daily prayers. Though they are far away from
us, we feel that they are spiritually present
with us. Our prayerful wishes to all our
benefactors and their families so that the Good
Lord may bless them all abundantly.’
Bigard Memorial, Nigeria
Fr Ukoro Theophilus Igwe, Rector, informs us
that the seminary has 648 students this year.
The main chapel was recently renovated and other
key structural work is still to be undertaken
once the debt incurred by the chapel renovation
has been cleared. Fr Ukoro also thanks the
supporters of the SPA for the help they give for
the upkeep and functioning of the seminary.
St John’s, India
Fr Jayaraju, Rector, tells us that ‘there is a
great need for priests – in some dioceses a
single priest has to cover as many as 30 to 40
villages. The work is vast; there are
sacramental needs and the challenging work of
evangelisation, as well as helping people with
development programmes in our multi-religious
and multi-cultural society. People rejoice to
see young priests preaching the Word of God well
in the local language. The SPA and its sponsors
give us tremendous support to continue the
formation of priests. The staff and seminarians
pray daily for the intentions of all supporters
and are grateful to them for their generosity,
prayers and sacrifices.’
Christ the King, Kenya
Rector, Fr James Wainaina, writes: This seminary
is trying to become more self-sufficient,
especially through their dairy enterprise, ‘We
recently bought more than ten cows. In the past
year, we have transformed the dairy enterprise
from a yield of 30 litres to 200 litres.’
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