On 21st December 2020, Rev. Bp Percival Fernandez along with Fr Bento Cardozo celebrated their 60th Anniversary of their Sacerdotal Ordination. The event was of great significance as they were the first group of priests to be ordained in St Pius X Seminary by Cardinal Valerian Gracias, the founder of the seminary, the first Indian Archbishop of Bombay and first Indian Cardinal. To commemorate this event, a private mass was held in the chapel of St Pius X Seminary under the im

On 18th December, 2020, the St Pius Community had its Advent Recollection. The speaker for the Recollection was Fr Glenford Lowe of the Salesians of Don Bosco from the Mumbai Province, a dynamic and gifted speaker. Being in the middle of the pandemic, it was but apt to speak about life during this pandemic and hence the theme of the 1st talk was ‘My journey this year in the light of the Covid Pandemic’. He spoke of how the pandemic filled people with fear and upset their live

3rd December 2020 was a memorable day for the Community of St Pius X Seminary and for the Archdiocese of Bombay. It was the day that six Deacons, after a long wait of eight months, were ordained to the Priesthood by Cardinal Oswald Gracias, in the beautiful chapel of St Pius X College under the magnificent mosaic of the Last Supper during which Jesus instituted the Priesthood. Due to the precarious situation of the covid-19 crisis, the number of those attending was limited to

On 28th November, the second Rector’s Talk of the year was held for the seminary community. As the majority of the community members were still not in the seminary and dispersed across many places, the talk was held online. Having welcomed all members of community, Fr Aniceto Pereira spoke briefly about how this pandemic has affected all in some way, some suffering big losses. The pandemic came with its set of surprises and woes. While it has had its share of suffering and fr