College Seminary

A. BRIEF HISTORY

   The Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity College Seminary is owned and operated by the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT), a religious congregation of priests, sisters, and lay apostles, founded by Fr. James H. Flanagan on July 16, 1958 with a mission to work in areas of deepest apostolic needs. The priests' community saw the need to put up a seminary because of the growing numbers of seminarians who wanted to join the Society of our Lady. For two decades after the SOLT established a community in the Philippines, particularly in the Sacred Heart Parish, Cabasan, Bacacay, province of Albay, seminarians were scattered to different seminaries in the country for philosophical & theological studies. With the direction of the late Cardinal Sin, the community moved for an academic centralization in 1994. This time the Holy Rosary Minor Seminary (Philosophy studiesl)  and the Holy Rosary Major Seminary (Theology studies) in Naga City were chosen as the central seminaries for the past 18 years now.

As early as year 2000, the community saw the need to really establish a seminary which could cater particularly to the vision, mission and charism of SOLT as religious congregation. After many enduring efforts, the community was given the temporary permit (No.07-0, series of 2009) by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to open and conduct the 1st Curriculum year of the course Bachelor of Arts major in Philosophy 2009-2010. That was the year when the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, declared it to be the Year for Priests. What an apt affirmation of the community's dream to have a seminary!
  

The seminary is located in Sitio Langon, Brgy. Cararayan, Naga City. Twenty-two (22) seminarians served as pioneers with four priest-formators taking charge of the formation on full time basis. On July 16, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Bishop Jose Rojas, D.D, of the Diocese of Libmanan blessed the seminary and has celebrated the Holy Mass for the closing of the 50th Jubillee celebration of the SOLT in the world.  


B. PROGRAM OF FORMATION

The SOLT Asia-Pacific Region, owner of the Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity College Seminary (OLMHTCS), has tried to seek new ways in living out the mission of the SOLT with the inspiration of its founder, Fr. James H. Flanagan to “serve in areas of deepest apostolic needs for the full development of peoples leading them to become disciples of Jesus and Mary,” so also, OLMHTCS has earnestly tried to find fresh alternatives in facilitating and effecting a tertiary education that pursues an education that is religious and missionary – where the student is formed to be truly a disciple and as one who lives out the baptismal commitment to preach the Kingdom of God on earth. Thus, OLMHTCS commits itself to the realization of the SOLT's Vision-Mission-Charism.

The OLMHTCS Education aims for the total human and Christian formation of the person towards his union with God.

Vision: OLMHTCS is an educational institution helping individuals towards integral growth and maturity in all areas of human and Christian formation as servant leaders in the Church and in the world.

Mission: Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity College Seminary commits itself to the following tasks:

1. Providing the necessary means to discern and respond to one's vocation.
2. Clarifying and settling one's identity towards ongoing conversion.
3. Systematic and holistic understanding of the link between faith and life.
4. Developing intellectual competence with high Christian moral values.
5. Inculcating interior life towards apostolic commitment.
6. Living Christian discipleship towards renewed evangelization.

The seminary's student body is composed of the following:

1. Matriculated resident students: (SOLT seminarians-Interns) who have been duly screened and accepted to formation by the SOLT Vocation  Office;

2. Matriculated non-resident students: (Religious Congregation/Society/Dioceses – Extern-Seminarians or Sisters) who have been duly recommended by their respective Vocation Offices and have passed the OLMHTCS Admission Test;

3. Matriculated non-resident, non-seminarians: (Extern, non-seminarians) who have duly recommended by their respective parish priest and have passed the OLMHTCS Admission Test; former seminarians who have been duly recommended by their formators and by at least three members of the faculty for their re-admission.