Dear friends of the seminary, Since the return of the seminarians at the beginning of January from their Christmas break, life at the seminary has continued as normal. We had a Solemn High Mass for the feast of the Epiphany and a little gift exchange and Epiphany party for the seminarians. The following week, we … [Read more…]

Dear friends of the seminary, On behalf of the clergy and seminarians of Mater Dei Seminary, I would like to wish all of our friends and benefactors a most blessed Christmas and grace-filled New Year! It is with grateful hearts that we thank you for your prayers and support this past year. Please be assured … [Read more…]

Dear friends of the seminary, We would like to congratulate our seminarians who received orders yesterday on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Kyle St. Aubin (Canada), Lucas Costa (Brazil), Anthony Alley (South Dakota), Richard Lauricella (Washington), and Thomas Netzel (Washington) received the minor orders of porter and lector. Frater Martin Sentman, CMRI (Michigan) … [Read more…]

Dear friends of the seminary, I wanted to post the link to the live stream for the upcoming ordinations. The Ordination Mass is scheduled to begin at 8 am but the live stream will start around 7:45 am. Fr. Armour during his years at the seminary, was our regular live stream “technician” and since his … [Read more…]

Dear friends of the seminary, I am taking this idea from Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI, who writes a short weekly blog on the St. Joseph’s Minor Seminary website: http://www.minorseminary.org/this-week-at-the-seminary.shtml While I don’t intend to do a weekly write up, nevertheless, I thought it would be good to give a little update every now and then … [Read more…]