Blessing of Throats at the Seminary
Happy feast day of St. Blaise! Today we had the blessing of the throats after Mass. Did you get your throat blessed today? St. Blaise pray for us! Painting of St. Blaise presumably in Public Domain.
Chalices for Days
Today I will share with you all the second fun thing we got to do during J-Term. In the my post yesterday I talked about what my seminary’s J-Term is and shared with you pictures of all the cool relics I got to see. Now I want to share pictures of another great thing my…
Relics on Relics on Relics on . . .
I don’t know if other seminaries out there do something similar to mine, but at my seminary (Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology ran by the Benedictine Monks at Saint Meinrad Archabbey) we have this part of the year called “J-Term,” which covers most of January (hence “J”-Term), and it starts when we come…
Books for My Last Semester of Philosophical Studies (Spring 2020)
We are out of the retreat phase of the month, and now our academic classes official begin today. Just like I’ve done the past two semesters (Spring 2019 and Fall 2019), here above is a pic of the books I will be using in my classes for this second semester of my second year of…
Back Home For Christmas!
Back home for Christmas break! Thank God forreal for that! The Bishop visited my parish for the vigil last night, and I served. Plus it was a great opportunity to rep NashVocations, our diocese’s vocations office.
Finally! Thanksgiving Break!
Thanksgiving break finally came for me at the end of last week as I left St. Meinrad on Friday and made the almost 3 hour drive back to Nashville. I have been home for a couple of days already now, and in addition to chilling out I have been doing one of the things I…
Our new diocesan seminarian poster is out!
And I moved up a row! Please pray for us!
Divine Liturgy at the Seminary and #KnowYourRites (West and East)
Served for a Melkite Divine Liturgy at the seminary this past weekend! Our rector is bi-ritual and he offers this for us at least twice a school year. Two of our deacons and a hand-full of us other guys helped out. Here are some of the pictures. And I wanted to take this opportunity to reiterate…
Books for the Fall Semester
Just like in during the start of spring semester of my first year the above is a pic of the books I will be using for my classes for this fall semester of my second year of philosophical studies. 14 are in the photo (a few more are not in this shot), but three are…
40 Hours Devotion at the Seminary and Your Intentions
Need someone to pray for your special intentions? I GOT YOU, FAM. The past week we have been having a week of spirituality to lead off before classes officially starts. This weekend we began a 40 hours devotion to cap it all off that ends tomorrow. From Friday to Monday there has been perpetual adoration.…