Life at Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary
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- Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary is a house of traditional priestly formation for the Society of Saint Pius X.
Our mission at the seminary is the formation of holy priests: a priest who is another Christ. The liturgy, prayer life, studies, work and recreation all harmonize at the seminary to make the seminarian like unto Christ.
The life here the Seminary consists of many different aspects.
The Liturgy holds the prominent place in the future Priest’s life.
This includes daily Mass- the very soul of the priest’s life. Solemn High Mass on Sundays and feast days, and the Divine Office, chanted three times a day in community. Seminarians are specifically designated and tasked to prepare these sacred ceremonies with great attention and devotion.
Seminarians gather in the chapel for the daily rosary, holy hours, and Stations of the Cross. Every day in the evening the seminarians gather for a spiritual conference given by our rector. talk about the purpose of it
In addition to common prayer, silence is essential for a fruitful interior prayer life. Silence is the very atmosphere of the seminary. It is the necessary condition for union with God and intellectual studies.
Studies are a vital element to ensuring that the priest is well equipped for his spiritual life and ministries later on.
Over the course of 7 years, the seminary curriculum ranges from a year of Humanities, to studies later on in Philosophy and Theology according to Saint Thomas Aquinas.
The education is a seven year curriculum. It begins with the year of humanities, where the seminarian receives the natural foundation to the spiritual life offered by the liberal arts. The next year is the year of spirituality which is dedicated to mystical and aesthetical theology. The two following years focus primarily on the philosophy of Aristotle. Lastly all culminates in three years of theology based on Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Seminarians have the daily opportunity to refresh the mind and body with recreations. This provides an excellent time for fostering fraternal charity by which seminarians learn to treat their fellow community members as Christ.
Recreation also plays an important role in the life of the seminary. An hour a day is set aside to give our seminarians a chance to exercise and relax the mind. Activities include a variety of sports as well as casual walks, fishing and community hikes. Besides refreshing the seminarian, these activities help impart him with social virtues and aid him in seeing Christ in every one of his neighbors.
As part of our formation, household jobs, like waiting on tables and washing dishes are performed on a weekly rotation by all seminarians, instilling in them both a spirit of diligence and humility. In addition to these weekly jobs, there are also more permanent department jobs such as sacristy, Master of Ceremonies, library, house cleaning, art, grounds, schola, kitchen, and general campus management.
These jobs aid in preparing the seminarian for roles of leadership and responsibility as well as facilitating the efficient smooth running of the seminary.
The future priest, besides this pious intention to honor God and serve souls, must also show academic promise, moral discipline, psychological health, common sense, and intellectual maturity. All of these qualities are essential for a successful priestly ministry. Likewise, he cannot be driven by his emotions, attached to physical pleasures, or desirous of worldly praise and renown. Such defects would gravely hinder his pastoral duties and mar his relations with God.
The goal of the seminary is the formation and training of young men to be a priest in the model of Christ. This will prepare them for their missionary work throughout the world. Carrying on the torch of tradition in the spirit of our founder:
"I have passed on what I have received." -Archbishop Lefebvre
TRADIDI QUOD ET ACCEPI
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Lord Jesus protect these holy men.
God bless these seminarians and Priests 🙏 Wonderful video.
Ave Maria for these priests and l pray O holy Mother to please keep them in your Immaculate Heart to love God forever and ever Amen
This is such an encouraging video.
Excellent ! So inspiring!
Many are called but only few are chosen to defend the true faith. Tradition and Scriptures.
Absolutely sublime!!!
How about some more videos like this?Interviews with the seminarians.I read the SSPX is planning to build a chapel at the seminary and a convent for sisters.Let’s see some fundraising videos for those efforts!
Deo gratias 🙏
At today’s Synod Press Briefing, + Franz-Josef Overbeck, Bishop of Essen, Germany, said that in 14 years as a bishop he has buried 300 priests and only ordained 15, adding that currently he has 0 seminarians. He stated that without taking any personal responsibility for the situation.
Beautiful
Tradidi quod et accepi!!!
Amen!!!
Sounds amazing. Waiting for your call if needed lord!
It's amazing!
Deo gratias….
Archbishop Lefebvre Ora pro Nobis ❤
Does the Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary admit Hispanic students, residing in Latin America, who want to study in your seminary to be ordained as a Traditionalist Priest?
I believe so. I know someone who entered is from Indonesia 🇮🇩
Why wouldn't they?
You should call the seminary to ask them.
There is a Spanish speaking seminary at Argentina
There are four seminaries of the SSPX depending on your language. One in the US for english speakers, one in Argentina for spanish speakers, one in Germany for german speakers and one in France/Switzerland for french speakers. I know the IBP, a trad priestly society in full communion with Rome, has one international seminary for all its candidates to priesthood, in France. Many of the seminarians are hispanic as a matter of fact.
Why this video doesn’t mention by name Abp Lefebvre?
It does. 2:33.
I am a new convert. I’m wondering why the seminarians wear their clerics while at recreation and while doing hard work.
Jesus and his mother were eating food
Architecture inspired by Alcatraz.
And this is why the whole world is not Catholic, because there is too much weight on Aquinas, and too little on the Apostles themselves.
No.
"For scholastic philosophy and theology they [Modernists} have only ridicule and contempt. Whether it is ignorance or fear, or both, that inspires this conduct in them, certain it is that the passion for novelty is always united in them with hatred of scholasticism, and there is no surer sign that a man is on the way to Modernism than when he begins to show his dislike for this system....” Pope St. Pius X pascendi dominici gregis
“We will add that We deem worthy of praise those who with full respect for tradition, the holy Fathers, and the ecclesiastical magisterium, undertake, with well-balanced judgment and guided by Catholic principles (which is not always the case), seek to illustrate positive theology by throwing the light of true history upon it. Certainly more attention must be paid to positive theology than in the past, but this must be done without detriment to scholastic theology, and those are to be disapproved as of Modernist tendencies who exalt positive theology in such a way as to seem to despise the scholastic.” - Pope St. Pius X pascendi dominici gregis