Seminary Suggestions?

[LadyOfSorrows]

[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1281797985' post='2157144']
There's a seminary at the Mount in Emmitsburg, Maryland that is worth checking out. I went to school with the pre-theologians (the philosophy department was shared by both the college and the seminary). It's a good, solid seminary.
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YES one of the best in the country! I know some seminarians who have gone to different seminaries and then come to the Mount and say that there is a lot more emphasis on prayer at the Mount seminary.

[MithLuin]

[quote name='Tridenteen' timestamp='1281804387' post='2157233']
JMJ
That chapel is beautiful
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It's the [url=http://thedivinemercy.org/shrine/about.php]National Shrine of the Divine Mercy[/url] in Stockbridge, MA. You can go there on pilgrimage - it's very much open to the public.


Oh, and I agree with [b]Morostheos[/b] - seminarians go where they are sent when they become seminarians. They don't get to choose their seminary. That being said, you can learn about your diocese's current seminarians, see where they are sent, and then go check that out. If it doesn't seem a good match for you, you might want to look at the orders, and find one that [i]is[/i] a good match.

In other words, 'Which seminar(ies) do you send your seminarians to?' should be one of your standard questions in the discernment process.

Edited August 15, 2010 by MithLuin

[MissScripture]

[quote name='morostheos' timestamp='1281811290' post='2157315']
I don't have any direct experience with seminaries really, but if you choose to be a diocesan priest, the diocese will decide where to send you, you don't normally get to pick. If you join a religious order, they decide.

In other words:

1. Seminary or not.
2. Bishop.
3. The bishop sends you to a seminary.
(Taken from a priest's comment on a friend's ponderings about the priesthood and seminary.)
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But if you go to minor seminary, don't you get to chose that? That was the impression I always got, but I could be mistaken.



To Ponti: This thread makes me happy! I think you'd make a fantastic priest.

[morostheos]

I really don't know - maybe one of our phatmass clergy could better answer that question?

[loveletslive]

my diocese sends all the minor seminarians to st. john vianney in minnesota...so you may not get to choose

[MithLuin]

The quick way to break it down - if the diocese is paying, the diocese gets to choose where you go. If you haven't formally become a seminarian yet, and are just a college kid discerning the priesthood, then you can go where you want to go. I imagine minor seminary is handled slightly differently by different dioceses, so it's certainly worth asking your diocese's vocations director how the process works.