Any study on the Oblate formation in Jaffna would be traced back to the beginning of the Oblate mission in Sri Lanka. It was on 28 November 1847 four Missionaries of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O M I) landed in Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, under the leadership of Father Stephen Semeria OMI. They were stationed in the Apostolic Vicariate of Jaffna in February 1848.[1] Though Father Stephen Semeria OMI was interested in raising the indigenous clergy from the beginning, he was able to implement his plan only when he became the Vicar Apostolic of Jaffna on 17 August 1856. The Bishop’s House of Jaffna became the first Seminary, and there were few young men who were guided directly by Mgr. Stephen Semeria OMI;[2] Bro. Paul Stephen Poorey OMI became the first Lankan Oblate scholastic when he made his first Oblation on 12 November 1859.[3]
OMI Information for the month of June is released
OMI Information -Pdf The Official news letter of the Province of Jaffna -Yazhath Thoni
