Bishop John Dolan held a Mass in celebration of the opening of the seminary year on Thursday (Aug. 28) evening at the Virginia G. Piper Chapel at the Diocesan Pastoral Center in downtown Phoenix. Nazareth Seminary, the Diocese of Phoenix's local seminary formation program, has a record 55 seminarians beginning study this month, and nearly 40 men were in attendance. Nazareth Seminary incorporates an innovative home-style model of formation where seminarians live in community with one another a...| The Catholic Sun
Why Men Become Priests Why Men Become PriestsThis is the first of three articles addressing why men enter the seminary to study for the priesthood and be ordained; why some leave; and why others stay. In some cases, I will use pseudonyms for the real priests and seminarians whose stories I will share. You won’t read about this in most Catholic publications ... Read more The post Why Men Become Priests first appeared on Complicit Clergy.| Complicit Clergy
No one has lived your call or your story. Only you and God get to embark on the journey of finding the words and actions to share what those two things truly mean for you and the world.| Good Faith Media
Letters of J. W. Alexander, pp. 16-17. THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, January 30, 1823. Another month is tapering off to non-entity, and with it closes the first half of our winter term. On Monday next commences a recess from study of two weeks’ duration; and, as you know that feelings of leisure and disenthralment are: wont to […]| This Day in Presbyterian History