The Diocese of Dumaguete launched recently the Vocation Month Celebration to encourage young people to enroll at the St. Joseph Seminary in Sibulan, Negros Oriental, with all Catholic schools and universities in the city participating.

The vocation month celebration is a way of informing young people about the vocation for priesthood, for nuns and other religious.

Msgr. Gamaliel Tulabing, Diocesan Vicar General of Dumaguete, said the number of enrollees at the Saint Joseph Seminary College has tremendously gone down compared in the past years.

He said 40 percent of the priests in the Diocese of Dumaguete came from Siquijor because it has preserved its morality and has less materialism, and consumerism factors.

But recently Siquijor slowly lost its student priests because of the changing times, Tulabing said.

He said some parishes in Manila have lost people with vocations because of the strong existence of materialism and consumerism.

To date Manila has 250 guest priest who are working actively in different parishes.

Tulabing said the two factors have affected the outlook of the young people who are hooked into materialism and consumerism.

With the launching, he said he is hoping for a hundred enrollees in the seminary next school year.*MA

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