#SpiritualAdoption #LetNoVocationBeLost


With these slogans the "Mothers with a light blue scarf" have relaunched the Spiritual Adoption Campaign. The group brings together mothers, sisters, grandmothers of priests and / or seminarians, plus all those people who have joined the "spiritual adoption" of Seminarians from the Diocese of San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina.

It happened at the end of July 2020 that the Bishop of San Rafael, Monsignor Eduardo María Taussig, decided to close the Santa María Madre de Dios Diocesan Seminary. The reason invoked is the disobedience of the parishioners, seminarians and priests to the imposition of the Political Authority (the Governor of the Province) who decreed that Catholics should take communion in hand due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This imposition was accepted and endorsed by the two Bishops of the Province of Mendoza. However, Taussig went further, even suspending priests or punishing them for their lack of obedience, to the point of deciding to close the Seminary with 38 seminarians.
In principle, the seminarians were assured that they would be "relocated." However, in the month of October upon his return from Rome, Bishop Taussig confirmed that each Seminarian would return home as a lay person, at least for the entire year 2021.
 
On November 27, 2020, feast of the Virgin of the Miraculous Medal, 4 months after the initial announcement, the event was consummated when the last Seminarians left the seminary to return to their families.
 
While the Diocese of San Rafael continues to pray and carry out the spiritual adoption of Seminarians whose priestly Vocations have been "aborted" by their own Bishop Eduardo María Taussig, in other parts of the world, such as in Hungary the Archbishop of the Diocese of Vezprem Dr. György Udvardy, has closed his Seminary, founded in 1711, according to official news due to a lack of priestly vocations.
 
Likewise, the Cardinal Archbishop of Florence, Italy has announced that next year no one will enter his seminary. Cardinal Giuseppe Betori said it in a videoconference with the media for the Christmas greetings, adding: "I consider this one of the greatest wounds of my episcopate."
 
Meanwhile, in San Rafael, Bishop Taussig, apparently with the blessing of Pope Francis, has cut the lives of 38 (thirty-eight) future Priests without giving reasons for the fact, causing great damage to the entire Catholic Church.
 
In Europe, the Roman Academic Center Foundation (CARF) carries out an important action to raise funds for the support of priestly vocations, especially in America and Africa. On its page it can be read: "Can you imagine a world without priests?
It is difficult to imagine a complete world without priests, but we do know what happens in so many places where there are no priests at all. In other words,  there is simply no Eucharist, no sacramental forgiveness of sins, no sick people receiving the strength and grace of the Anointing, no people experiencing the happy moments of baptism, communion or wedding for lack of sacraments ".

Many people ask themselves the question “Why are vocations lost”?
Most vocations are born today in African or American countries, but the lack of material resources means that many of them do not even reach the seminaries. This fact makes us think that behind each priestly vocation, there is another call from the Lord to each one of us, Christians, asking for personal effort to ensure the means for their religious formation ".

It becomes difficult to understand that although there are many people around the world making so many efforts to sustain priestly Vocations, in the Diocese of San Rafael, Mendoza, Bishop Taussig decides in express time to close the Diocesan Seminary of Santa María Madre de Dios despite the letters and calls received from Monsignor Héctor Rubén Aguer, the elderly Monsignor Estanislao Karlic and Monsignor Carlo María Vigano.

The mothers of the Seminarians and the Catholic faithful of San Rafael are still awaiting the response of Pope Francis, the Apostolic Nuncio Monsignor Miroslaw Adamczyk, the Prefect for the Clergy Cardinal Beniamino Stella and Bishop Taussig himself who have kept silent to the various personal letters, open letters, administrative appeals and network communications that have been sent to them for months. A very striking fact, since in 2019 Pope Francis himself called a Synod to deal with the shortage of Priests.

Spiritual Adoption Campaign
What is the campaign about?
The way to participate is very simple: please complete the form with your personal data and indicate what type of prayer (a Holy Rosary or a Eucharistic Adoration) you will perform for a Seminarian. It is necessary and  important to do this when completing the data so that no seminarian is left out without someone to offer prayers for him.
 
The purpose of the Campaign is to accompany the seminarians in the difficult situation in which they have been brought without their consent after the closure of the Santa María Madre de Dios Diocesan Seminary, to support them in their suffering, discernment and in the search for a solution to be able to fulfill their priestly vocation.
 
Because the Church needs Priests, so we ask that they help us to spread the word: #LetNoVocationBeLost