Marian devotion
In Seomyeon, next to the western coast of Seocheon County, a small Catholic parish is dedicated to Immaculate Heart of Mary. Founded in 2011, his identity invites him to contemplate the faith, compassion and inner fidelity of the Mother of Jesus.
Advocation: Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Official Korean name: Skills Symm Sesim.
Temple: 서천서면성당 · Seocheon Seomyeon Catholic Church.
Address: 794-3 Seoin-ro, Seomyeon, Seocheon-gun, Chungcheongnam- do 33602, South Korea.
Parish Foundation: 12 January 2011.
Jurisdiction: Catholic diocese of Daejeon, pastoral district of Boryeong.
Related station: Busari.
Coordinates checked: 36.1539263, 126.5525188.
An official dedication
The Bishops' Conference of Korea Sex Mole, the Heart of Mary, as patronage of Seocheon Seomyeon. It also confirms the direction, the diocese and the date of foundation.
In Catholic Spanish, the title is usually expressed as Immaculate Heart of Mary. The page also retains the Korean literal form for transparent identification.
A parish since 2011
The community was erected 12 January 2011. It belongs to the pastoral district of Boryeong, within the diocese of Daejeon.
Its founding date places it among the most recent parishes of the Korean inventory. Institutional youth does not reduce their value or allow for undocumented earlier stages.
The heart in the Bible
In biblical language, the heart is not just the seat of feelings. It represents the center of the person, where it is heard, decided, remembered and loved.
The Gospel presents Mary by keeping and meditating on events in her heart. His internality is not passivity: he prepares her to respond with faith and act.
A heart through
Simeon announces that a sword will pass through Mary's soul. In this prophecy, tradition contemplates his painful participation in the mission of Jesus.
The Immaculate Heart does not mean a life without wounds. It shows a fidelity that does not allow suffering to become hatred or close the heart to love.
Immaculate by grace
Mary's purity is God's gift and availability to her will. It is not proud superiority or alienation from those who sin.
He who looks at his heart asks for a real conversion: truth in intentions, mercy with his neighbor and consistency between prayer and conduct.
Relationship with the Heart of Jesus
Devotion to the Heart of Mary is never separated from Jesus Christ. Mary receives her life and her mission from the Son and leads to her redeeming love.
His maternal compassion reflects, in a created and dependent manner, the mercy of Christ. That is why it does not present itself as an autonomous source of salvation.
Prayer and conversion
St. John Paul II, in beatifying Francis and Jacinta Marto in Fatima, related the Immaculate Heart to the call for conversion and trust in God.
The doctrinal reference helps to understand the title, but does not make Seocheon Seomyeon a place of apparitions or attribute messages from Fatima there.
A small community
The directory consulted records 318 faithful and a missionary station. These administrative data may vary, but they show a pastoral presence distributed in a rural territory.
A small community needs co-responsibility: liturgy, catechesis, care for the elderly and reception depend on the generous participation of many people.
Busari Station
The newsletter of the diocese of Daejeon identifies Busari as a station linked to Seocheon Seomyeon. This relationship confirms the data of the directory and extends the understanding of its pastoral territory.
Busari is not added here as a second marker because this document documents the parish and its main temple. A future site of the station would require verified own location and patronage.
A community by the Yellow Sea
Seomyeon occupies the western coastal end of Seocheon- gun. Fishing, tides and rural life are part of the human context of the territory.
The file does not attribute local customs without source. He does invite people to pray for those who work at sea, for rural families and for the care of coastal ecosystems.
verified location for the map
The episcopal direction is 794-3 Seoin-ro. The nominal mapping of Seocheon Seomyeon Catholic Church places the temple in 36.1539263, 126.5525188.
The marker corresponds to the parish building of Seomyeon, not to Seocheon-dong, to the city of Seocheon or to Busari station.
To visit and pray
The hours should be confirmed directly before they come, especially as they are a small community with extensive territorial care.
They can pray for the purification of their own heart, for those who live with deep wounds and for the protection of sea workers and rural families.
Prayer to the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Seocheon Seomyeon
Mary, Mother of an immaculate heart, keeps the parish of Seocheon Seomyeon and the station of Busari. Teach us to listen, keep and fulfill the Word of God. It comforts the wounded hearts, protects those who work in the sea and in the field, and always commit us to the merciful Heart of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Sources consulted
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