Hello again,
My first class at St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity is
today. I have been here about a week for
orientation and am getting pretty settled in.
I have had a lot of people ask me to compare the differences between
here and Mundelein Seminary where I was at.
There are a lot of small differences, but on the whole there is a lot
that is the same. It is a major seminary
still where men participate in their final years of formation for the
priesthood. That is the essential and
that is the same at both places. I
really want to hold off on comparisons until I’ve been here a bit longer.
Orientation was great.
It was a combination between getting to know what we needed to live here
and growing fellowship amongst the new guys.
The orientation included guys starting in pre-theology and starting in
theology. Here they didn’t divide us
apart as much as they had at Mundelein so it took quite a while to get a feel
for who is in my class in first theology and who is in pre-theology.
We did a lot of social activities, spiritual activities and
generally getting us the information we needed.
For social activities we have had a pizza party, watched a movie, gone
on a dinner cruise on the St. Croix River, among other things. Spiritually we have of course had Mass every
day and liturgy of hours. We also did a
one day pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, to
spend time praying together away from the seminary. It has been a fun week, but so much more than
that. The guys that I am with are great.
I know this is a lot of generalities, but I wanted to give
just a quick update of what I’ve been up to here.
Peace,
Adam
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