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…
REPOST: Black (And Catholic) Like Me 3: St. Josephine Bakhita (Black History Month 2019)
I figured I’d repost this old edition of the Black (And Catholic) Like Me article-series from during my apostolate’s Black History Month celebrations earlier this year about the Black Catholic saint St. Josephine Bakhita because . . . why not?! She has a great story, and its worth sharing again! So here is St. Bakhita…
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.…
Guess Who’s Back
Guess who’s back at seminary – This guy! Me (far left) and the other Nashville guys are here at St. Meinrad. One more year of philosophy studies to go, then its off to theology where the road to ordination starts to be head on. Pray for all seminarians as we begin again and some for…
Summer 2019 Personal Update 3 of 3: And now we wait – The second year of seminary approaches; Basics About Seminary Formation
And now the last personal update in this series of three is that I am now in a moment of waiting. Right now I am in the middle of the very last week of summer vacation, and I leave this Sunday to go back to St. Meinrad. Where did the days go? I’ve been spending…
Summer 2019 Personal Update 2 of 3: “Chill” time after the summer assignment.
In this second update installment are some of the interesting things I did after my summer assignment ended on July 31. After the all the duties of the summer assignment are over the ideal is for us seminarians to be able to kick back a little and relax before we all travel back to our…
Summer 2019 Personal Update 1 of 3: My first summer assignment as a seminarian.
Here’s the first in a series of three updates about my activities this summer. A lot of these are from the posts I’ve made through my social media extensions over the past couple of months, and they will detail some of the things involving my first summer assignment as a seminarian. I started my summer…