A Day in the Life of a Seminarian - St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2016
- newseminaryproject.org - What is it like to live within the walls of a seminary? Let us follow a day in the life of a seminarian.
At 6:00am the bell is rung which breaks the great silence of the night. The seminarian begins the day with the morning prayers. After washing up, he descends to the chapel - vesting with the surplice signifies “putting on the new man” as says St. Paul.
At 6:30am, Prime, part of the Divine Office or prayer of the Church, is sung. After 25 minutes of meditation, the Angelus is led by the Rector.
Mass, the center of seminary life, follows: a low Mass on weekdays, and a High Mass on Sundays and feast days.
After a silent breakfast, the seminarians have various duties before the first class at 9am. There are five class periods throughout the day, three in the morning and two in the afternoon. The entrance year, nicknamed year zero, allows the students to even out their general formation, including things as varied as history and literature, Latin and music, discipline and humbling manual labor.
The following year, when the seminarians receive the cassock, was dear to Archbishop Lefebvre. It is the year of spirituality, a kind of clerical novitiate, the purpose of which is to establish a solid spiritual life.
The two next years are dedicated to philosophy, according to the principles of St. Thomas Aquinas, whom St. Pius X called the antidote to modernism.
For the last three years, the cleric studies moral theology, the science of the confessional, and dogmatic theology, to gain a deeper understanding of the mysteries of our faith.
The last morning classes over, Sext, another part of the Divine Office, is recited in common. The seminarians then go to the refectory for lunch. After grace, a short text from the New Testament is recited in Latin, followed by a longer reading from a selected book. On weekdays, 20 minutes of the lunch period is spent in silence.
During recreation, a variety of games and exercises are available: volleyball, basketball, baseball, football, soccer, and in the winter, ice hockey and tobogganing.
Before the afternoon classes, there is time for a brief visit to the Blessed Sacrament. This time is appropriately used by those in major orders for the recitation of the breviary.
Three times a week in the afternoon, the first years are assigned manual labor. They can be asked to do any job that needs addressing.
The afternoon is ideal for class study. Silence is very necessary during study time, since the priests must be wise as well as holy. Hence, the space assigned to the library is exceeded only by that of the chapel. 30,000 books provide access to 20 centuries of the Church treasures.
Once a week, the seminarians go to their spiritual director for confession and spiritual direction.
At 6:30pm every day, a spiritual conference is given, followed by a prayer time during which the seminarians pray for the Friends and Benefactors of the Society. On Thursday and Sunday, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament takes the place of the Rosary. Evening meal and recreation follow suit.
The seminary day ends as it began. Compline, the night prayer of the Church is sung, closing appropriately the day with a Marian antiphon before entering the great silence.
For more information, visit sspx.org or newseminaryproject.org
Please pray for me. I'm going to seminary.
When?! Have you already entered?
Praying for you.
How you doing Isaac?
Pray for you, brother.
3:46 we will pray for you in our nightly Rosary Group, here in New Zealand
Please pray for my Priesthood vocation dear brothers, sisters in Christ. 🙏🏻+
The two paragraphs below may change your life:
“Let us too reflect on the life-giving aspect of the Holy Trinity. In the Nicene Creed Catholics affirm that the Holy Spirit "proceeds from the Father and the Son." The Holy Spirit is often understood as the Spirit of Love who proceeds from the infinite ocean of love between
Father and Son. We might therefore say that the Holy Spirit proceeds not only from the love of Father and Son but as a result of that love as well. The infinite love of Father and Son is of such an intensity that the Third Person of the Holy Trinity flows forth,....."
"This aspect of Love giving life to yet more Love is clearly what occurs in marriage when children are conceived. The man and wife, in an act of complete self-giving, produce, as a result of their own love for one another, a new life…”
--- end of excerpt from an article written by Catholic writer who is now a deacon Fred Bartels.
These men are true examples of masculinity and what men should aim towards in this modern world. What a great short demonstration of the seminary life
My friend just got accepted into the SSPX. Please pray for him, his name is Joshua
God bless him and you. Hello from Poland. 🇵🇱😁
I want to join as well.
What a joy. I will pray for Joshua.
Deo gratias
@@arinzeikechukwu8938 Dear sir, Follow God's call to the priesthood. The SSPX are the loyal priests. We are members in Great Britain since 2019 Praise God!
Lord Jesus Christ please guide and protect them
We need traditionalist priests. God bless you.
We need more new saints like padre peo also
True Masculinity/manhood.
I am also a SSPX faithful and Archon. God Bless the Religious vocation.
honestly I've been fighting a battle inside myself. After watching this, I think I've concluded my discernment.
What have you decided, my brother? I hope you've chosen the vocation. God bless you.
I want to be a priest, God willing it will happen! Meeting my vocation director tomorrow!
I hope and pray it is working out for you.
Please God protect these men and their hand which bring us Jesus.
A very strict life. My admiration and prayer for those who live this.
Please pray for me as I am discerning my vocation to the holy Priesthood. Thank you brothers and sisters in Christ.
I am praying every day for the SSPX seminarists. They are the good seed of the future catholics. God bless them.
Please pray for my son, who may have a vocation to the Priesthood ❤️🙏⚜️
These seminarians couldn't begin to know how so very much, how much hope they give to us. We are blessed to have them and are so grateful we are to God for gracing our faith.
It is wonderful to see these young men who are preparing for a Divine calling .
I'm a seminarian, but not in the RC Church. I'd never have this much discipline. Let's all pray for these young men who wish to speak God's word and keep it alive in this world.
I hope that you will be one day in Roman Catholic seminary like this in video. 😊🙏
You must become Catholic
Truly very admirable to see these young men pursuing the face of God.
Saw my priest in there!!! I love all these priest for their courage and sacrifices. I pray for all SSPX priest
I've been a seminarian for 8 years at St. Pius X Seminary (High School) & Sancta Maria Mater et Regina Seminarium (College) in the Philippines and I love how it is somehow similar to our lifestyle here. Great video. God bless you.
Are you still a seminarian though?
Praying all of You! we Priests started a youtube channel to pray the HOLY ROSARY for more Vocations to the Priesthood , Religious life, Diaconate and Married life. May the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary be with us always! Amen...
Will you post a link or a name, how are we to find this channel?
Now this is a seminary. God bless the work of the SSPX, and God bless all you who are called to the Priesthood!
Brethren, please pray for me that my candidacy is accepted to enter the seminary next Fall. I am out of the Warners NY Priory under Fr Boyle and seeking entrance to this vocation as a late vocation (I am 41.) I didn’t pursue the priesthood like I originally wanted to as a younger man as I was in the Novus Ordo and now I’m seeing this “delay” as a blessing as I was not exposed to tradition and only found it about 3 years ago. Since then, the vocational pull has come back in force and I know this is where I am meant to be. Please pray to the Lord, Our God for me 🙏🏼
Good luck Geoffrié
Dear Brother,I'll pray for you.May God Bless you.
Indeed, we in our Rosary Group in New Zealand, will pray for you, and in our First Saturday devotions.
I am an elderly consecrated woman who will be honored to pray for you. God bless you.
Tomorrow each of them are going to be protectors of our faith. We should love them respect them and pray for them
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send laborers into his vineyard.
I was a seminarian for more than a decade. And those years in the seminary I must say I really missed.
God bless and sanctify these young men.
EXCELLENT Congratulations Thank you all GOD Bless you all We will Pray for you all Hope keep Forever
I pray for vocations, our Church, our Holy Father, all priests, deacons, and seminarians on a daily basis. Lord God, please bless and protect these holy men as they discern to be our shepherds.
God bless and protect all seminarians!
If I were a boy I would've entered the seminary. God bless all the brothers ❤️
The SSPX has convents and carmels for women, check them out.
@@elhijodelchupacabra Carmels, cloistered dominican nuns, capuchin nuns etc.
Plzz pray for my holy vocation dear brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus
So nice... becoming a priest is so awesome..
Good bless ALL semeniry🙏🙏🙏🙏
So marvelous!! How I'd love my son(s) be a Catholic priest(s) 🥰🥰
Deo gratias. Lord, grant us many holy priests and religious vocations!
Fraternal hugs from Brazil.
God bless the seminarians
The Lord is your strength and may He be with you all always 🙏
May God keep blessing the SSPX order.
It's looks so peaceful.... Wow
Very nice Seminary!! Greetings from Spain.
The SSPX is what remains of our most Holy Roman Catholic church. May God bless all seminarians, and protect them from homsexuals.
This is beautiful.
Amazing! Please always stay close to Our Lady.
God bless this young man and the work of the SSPX
Thank you Lord for all your blessings. I love you with all my heart. Continue Lord to bless me and my family. There are many who need your healing touch, pour out your precious blood and wash all the ailments and cleans them. Thank you Jesus , praise you Lord 🙏🙏🙏
Angels on Earth. God bless, always.
God Bless & Protect these Holy Men.
God bless you all
Thank you Jesus for inspiring these young men, to be apart
Thank you for the faithful constancy to the ever ancient, ever new faith, witnessed to by the Society. May God bless your future
Brings back memories of my time there, best years of my life
Excellent Congratulations we will pray for you All God Bless you All Hope keep Forever
We need more Holy Priests like these, God Bless them!!
Beautiful video of a most beautiful life. May God bless the seminarians, the seminary, and the SSPX.
May god be with all mankind, especially during these difficult times.
This fills my heart with joy and hope. May our Lord bless and protect all the SSPX priests and seminarians. 🙏🏻❤️
SSPX is NOT Catholic! It's a protestant heresy!
@@danielfortier2629 Very fresh considering they haven't done anything which is against Catholic dogma, or violated any ecclesiastical canon.
@@danielfortier2629 I will pray for you
@@danielfortier2629very sad that you can't tell ttue Catholicism from Protestantism anymore. The Novus Ordo Church has you very confused. Peay for discernment.
Praying for many priestly vocations.
GOD bless the Society. 🙏🛐🙏
A Dominican priest for 54 years, who was a university chaplain and is a mentor for me, still has to get up at 5.45am.
I admire the "strong, discipline of faith"...so beautiful ;)
I am thinking about being a priest, here in new MexicoUSA, keep me in prayers, I went to vocation and on another retreat what a calling!
I hope that you will enter this seminary.
🙏🙏🙏
💒 good afternoon all 😇 my best friend from H S went to St Thomas Acqunia he now a Province like a Bishop in Chicago
This is how it should be. I will be praying for you. I desired for it but the opportunity is elusive.
So wonderful it gives me such hope
I just watched Chicago's seminary video. Oh, my, what a difference!
I just looked up what you were talking about 😂😂😂
This video is what a seminary should be. anything else will never give a priest the proper formation he needs.
Which makes a man ready to be a pastor, attentive to his people?
God bless Archbishop Lefebvre
He was EXCOMMUNICATED in 1988!!!
@@danielfortier2629 yup
One of their excuses is that Archbishop Lefebrve had to be disobedient in order to preserve tradition. He mentioned that he was ordaining the bishops in an act of emergency according to an older version of canon law. But “the act of emergency” WAS NOT an emergency to ordain the 4 bishops in disobedience and without apostolic approval. St. John Paul II begged him not to do this, but Archbishop Lefebrve excommunicated himself by not listening to the Supreme Pontiff and now the SSPX are schismatics. The good thing that came out of these schismatics was the Fraternity of St. Peter who are in full communion with the Catholic Church. Long live Christ the King and the Holy Father Pope Francis!
@@danielfortier2629 wrong. But Paul II acted heretic
@@DavidOrtiz-fd2lb nope
Wonderful! God bless them. ❤
A beautiful and concise presentation. Thank you.
1 Seminarian playing in his habit, Yahoo! Away with modernism and back to Orthodoxy, Order and The Omnipotent. Nice vid and thanks and pray these young men walk in the way of great Saints like St. Don Bosco.
Please pray for me for I am a sinner.
I attended a junior seminary in Australia 1959-1962. The daily school routine was pretty much the same as this, allowing for high school kids, not novitiate and after.
It's so sad that junior semiaries were rejected after Vatican II. God bless you from Polish catholic young woman. I attend to Tridentine Mass in Warsaw. We have SSPX here too. These priests are awesome, not like Novus Ordo priests.
This is AMAZING!
I'm new to SSPX - just what we need!
I went to the seminary for 1st year and 2nd year highschool. I left the seminary because of our financial lacking. im 10th grade now... Miss the seminary
🙏🙏🙏
Awesome
Amen
My wish is the same lifestyle!
This really helped me. Thank you!
If I had been born a man, THIS would be my ideal life
Mine too ;)
Seems like a perfect day !
I hope the seminarians will halp to bring back the latinn mass...
Hoping they will return to communion with the Catholic Church.
God bless SSPX, Awesome Video
I think god could be calling me to this..
This video is so relaxing. Beautiful.
Amen.
It is very interesting how much the structure of their day resembles that of the older religious orders.
Isaiah Footnote that was intentional. Archbishop Lefebvre of venerable memory (may he rest in peace) shaped the daily life based on his experience as the Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers in French Africa.
That's awesome
Amen
An ideal life that I want to live in. Even if it's hard and strict. As long that I'm serving God. Then so be it.
Thank you for sharing
Awesome
I'd love to go there
Nice!
So cool!
Joyful Hearts
Amazing:)
I sure wish the Catholic University that I went to was like this. At my University anything goes.
Daily sacred choral music, learning to sing correctly and a deep education in plainsong chant and sacred polyphony is absolute and of the highest critical importance! Learn from the Orthodox Church!
🙏🙏🙏
Thank you