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The Fall is here and so are Seminary Visits and Vocation Dinners. Check out our events below to take part in some good discernment opportunities.

The Vocations Office is geared up for this spring and summer. We have a lot of opportunities for you to discern your vocation. We have our seminary visits in February and March to St. Paul, MN and Winona, MN. We are bringing back our VOCATIONS CAMPS at Abbey of the Hills this summer May 29-31 and June 1-3! We have our 3rd Annual Holy Smoke Car Show on July 21st and our 4th Annual JPII Rocky Mountain Vocation Expedition July 29-Aug 4th. Please check out the events below to participate. We have a lot opportunities, but for you who? You! Any young man who is not married should come on these trips. Even if you have a girlfriend you should come. You might be called to the priesthood, you just…

The time is now! I remember when I was thinking of going to seminary while I was in college. I went back and forth in my mind about it. It went something like this. I am not sure I am suppose to be a priest. I want a wife and about 4-6 children of my own. I have about a 50% chance in my heart I am called to be a priest. I have dated different girls, but nothing is very serious right now. However, I have never dated the church. Therefore, I need to take her out on a date to see. So I visited the seminary. It did not knock my socks off, but God continued to work in my heart. For my Junior year of College I…

A vocation is all about falling in love. First we experience God's love and mercy and His desire for us, we then desire to love him back!  How we love God back is our vocation. St. John puts it this way, "In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another." 1 John 4:10 Every vocation is about receiving this love and then loving God through those whom he places in our midst. This fall there are many opportunities to discern your vocation and fall more in love with God. I just got done taking a group of 11 young ladies to visit the School…

The Ordination are coming.  Six Men to be Ordained!

Happy New Year! God continues to bless us. We will ordain six men to the priesthood this year and two men to the tranistional diaconate. Though we are losing six men from the seminary for the priesthood, and I am sure we will have one or two men discern out, next fall does not look thin. We are still having 10 men applying to the seminary, and these men are all great candidates! We could still grow from 31 to maybe 32 or even 33 next year. There is always room for more in the family. I have posted many upcoming spring and summer events. It is going to be another busy time of serving the Lord here in the Vocations Office. At Mass today, January 4th, I heard Jesus…