After the visit and interviews on the Cathedral Radio "Webtv Redentor i Rede Vida", on Friday evening, March 21, 2025, the Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa visited the complex of the Archdiocesan Seminaries of St. Joseph in Rio de Janeiro: the Minor, Propaedeutic and Major Seminaries.
The Icon of Our Lady was carried in procession by the clerics of the Propaedeutic Seminary of the Queen of Apostles to the chapel there, where a welcome ceremony was held. Then the Icon of the Black Madonna was transferred to the chapel of the Major Seminary, where all the seminarians gathered and prayed the Holy Rosary together.
Then there was a short time for statements by Fr. Leon Juchniewicz (translated from Spanish into Portuguese) and Lech Kowalewski (translated from English into Portuguese). They explained the language of the Icon, its content and history.
Seminarians and teachers from the Minor, Propaedeutic and Major Seminaries participated in the Holy Mass presided over by the auxiliary bishop of Rio de Janeiro, Zdzisław Stanisław Błaszczyk, known in Brazil as Dom Tiago Stanisław.
The Mother of God spent the entire night in the seminary chapel. The Rector allowed the mandatory night silence to be shortened, thanks to which adoration continued and future priests could remain at the feet of Mary, the Mother of Priests, present in the pilgrim Icon.
Early in the morning, the seminarians transported the Icon of the Mother of God to the Basilica of St. John the Baptist. The solemn Holy Mass was presided over by Cardinal Orani João Tempesta O. Cist. Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro. The Act of Entrustment of the Protection of the Civilization of Life and Love into the Hands of the Most Holy Virgin Mary has been renewed.
Rio de Janeiro – March 22, 2025
2025-03-21
the Archdiocesan Seminaries of St. Joseph in Rio de Janeiro