God’s will and the Lord’s Prayer

This morning the second reading for the Office of Readings was written by St. Cyprian, the topic was the Lord’s Prayer. In Today’s portion of the passage the focus was on the words “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.” There was one part of this reading I [...]

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New Missal workshop

On Friday June 11, many priests, deacons, musicians, RCIA directors, sisters and other parish and diocesan leaders gathered at the diocesan Pastoral Center for a workshop on the New Roman Missal and its future implementation. Several of the seminarians also attended this very important workshop. The workshop was led by Fr. Dennis McManus, who is [...]

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Finals and feedback

This upcoming week is finals week for the Conception seminarians, some of our seminarians at other seminarians have just wrapped up their semester, while others still have a ways to go (I’m thinking of Jason Doke over in Rome). Seeing as that is the case, posting will be minimal as we buckle down and prepare [...]

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The call to serve

Below is an article I wrote back in 2007 for the Catholic Spirit, diocesan newspaper of the Diocese of Metuchen. I had just finished my senior year of high school and was living in New Jersey at the time. Please pardon the quality of the writing, this seems like a long time ago. This was [...]

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Encounter With God’s Call Weekend

This weekend will be an Encounter With God’s Call Weekend. Like in the fall, men who are at least juniors in high school are allowed to come and visit to the seminary to learn more about seminary life and discern God’s call in their life. It is not too late to sign up, please do [...]

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March Madness and the Eucharist

The other day I blogged about a great message from Archbishop Dolan of New York who wrote about the need to attend Sunday Mass. The last four days I’ve spent a rather unmentionable amount of time watching college basketball, I absolutely love March Madness, and the Mizzou Tigers. However, as I was reflecting back on [...]

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The need to attend Sunday Mass

Today, as everyday, I was scrolling through my Google Reader (a great tool by the way) and I came across this piece by Archbishop Dolan. I thought it was a fantastic piece. In it he reminds us of the need to attend Sunday Mass. I find this to be something very important. The attendance of [...]

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Lenten retreat

The seminarians at Conception will begin a three-day silent retreat tomorrow on Ash Wednesday. This means that we will not have internet access, nor will we want to have internet access since we will be focusing on the retreat itself. This also means that there will be no blog updates for a couple of days. [...]

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Winter Olympics

The seminary is no exception, just like everywhere else around the world, seminarians get excited about the Olympics. What a wonderful event to bring the world together. Although I must note that we don’t get to watch as much as others because we still have our seminary schedule. In fact later this week we will [...]

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Life is Eternal

One of the advantages I’ve discovered since becoming a seminarian is that more friends send more spiritual song lyrics and poems to me (And John too). I am not complaining. Please keep them coming. A friend of mine posted the following poem on Facebook, I found it to be a powerful metaphor, and a great [...]

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