The Lorenzo Mission Institute is a seminary which was founded by Jaime Cardinal Sin in 1987 will celebrate its 40th anniversary on September 28, 2027. The celebration would be subsequent to the celebration of the Feast of San Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino-Chinese martyr and patron saint of the seminary. All throughout the years, the seminary has been faithful to its vision of being an institution for the formation of missionaries in the Philippines and abroad. Its missionary formation is geared towards missio ad gentes with the preferential option of doing apostolate with the Filipino-Chinese in the Philippines. Since the seminary began to have its first ordination in 1991, it has constantly produced a number of ordained priests which reached to 34.
The Lorenzo Mission Institute sits at the left side of San Carlos Seminary Pastoral Formation Complex with a special concentration on mission studies and pastoral orientation. Since the past 40 years, it has constantly welcomed seminarians who desired to work in the missions especially in the Filipino-Chinese Apostolate in the Philippines, and has consistently welcomed Chinese seminarians from China who desired to have their Philosophy and Theology formation in the Philippines. This cross-cultural experience added more exposure to cultural integration and accommodation. Although there is a decline in the number of seminarians in the past decade of its existence, the seminary does not tire of promoting vocations especially to missio ad gentes.
Since the time the Lorenzo Mission Institute began accepting seminarians from China in order to have their seminary formation in the Philippines, the seminary has achieved its goal of producing priests who will be sent back to China in order to strengthen its local church through their missionary and pastoral experiences. Bishops from some dioceses in China had been generous of sending their seminarians to the Philippines and in response to this emerging phenomenon, the seminary had provided the locus for their spiritual and academic development. Besides, their presence had contributed to the missionary exposure and experience both to the Chinese and the Filipino counterparts.
Celebrating its milestone of 40 years of missionary formation, the Lorenzo Mission Institute continues to express a desire for a springtime of hope as it enters into a new phase of its seminary formation. The current seminary rector, Msgr. Noly A. Que, LRMS had ardently encouraged everyone to continue praying for more vocations to the priesthood and missionary life. 

PAPAL WISDOM

GRATITUDE FOR THE GIFT OF PRIESTLY VOCATION

COMMUNION PRECEDES MISSION- This is an important principle of missionary life and spirituality. The Lorenzo Ruiz Mission Society lives out this missionary principle in order to be effective evangelizers among the people they are sent to. Every year, the Society gathers for updating, bonding, friendship, brotherhood, sharing, praying and living together to fulfill the vision of communion as a missiological virtue and ideal. The Trinity is the first model of communion for it is a communion of persons having one single mission which is to save humanity and the world. It was John Paul II who crystallized the intrinsic connection between mission and communion. In his Apostolic Exhortation entitled Christifideles Laici, no. 32, he said: "Communion and mission are profoundly connected with each other, they interpenetrate and mutually imply each other, to the point that communion represents both the source and the fruit of mission: communion gives rise to mission and mission is accomplished in communion."