Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Hello loyal readers (and first-timers) of the Cincinnati Seminarian Blog. In an effort to provide even more premium content and offer another viewpoint on life in the seminary, I have been added to the blogger roster. My colleague Andrew C. suggested I introduce myself, so here goes:
Name: Eric Roush
Age: 31
Home parish: [...]
Posted in Ordination, Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2010 No Comments »
My apologies for the lack of updates on this blog, suffice it to say that this year has been quite busy, we seminarians have had some great opportunities to promote vocations through High school talks, Junior High vocations basketball games, and Andrew dinners. These events are wonderful for promoting the beautiful call to the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, seminary on Jul 29th, 2009 No Comments »
From June 8-20, my four classmates, myself, and Fr. Earl Fernandes became pilgrims to the Holy Land. As mentioned, this is an annual part of our program at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West. Every year, the class that has just finished internship is blessed to have this opportunity.
For the [...]
Posted in Holy Hour, Life, Prayer, Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
I heard the call to enter formation for the priesthood while I was a law student at Notre Dame. The three years I spent at Our Lady’s university–the last two while living on campus as an “assistant rector” in a mens residence hall–were a joyous, blessed, wonderful period in my life.
Many of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, discernment, seminary on Apr 20th, 2009 No Comments »
The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has had a really great new program within the past year called Cast Your Nets. It is a coordinated effort by the Vocations office, Office of Youth & Young Adult Ministry, and some active and dedicated youth ministers. Fr. Schnippel has blogged on it previously.
I was able to [...]
Posted in Life, Ordination, Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2009 No Comments »
The Catholic Telegraph has a fascinating blog that posts pictures and articles from the archives of our Archdiocesan newspaper. Yesterday, the focus was on Holy Trinity parish in Coldwater - my family’s home parish for the past fourteen years or so.
From their 1967 article:
“In 1867 there were only three Catholic families living [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2009 No Comments »
I did, briefly, in today’s coverage of Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s installation as Archbishop of New York.
This question, though, was asked by Archbishop Dolan himself - and caught on EWTN’s coverage - as a steady stream of priests passed by on their way toward the entrance of St. Patrick’s Cathedral for the entrance procession. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 12th, 2009 No Comments »
I hope everyone has had a glorious Easter. Our celebration here at the internship parish, St. Albert the Great, was wonderful. The Vigil last night was exquisite and I assisted with two additional Masses this morning, serving as thurifer each time.
In this season of New Life, many prayers in particular for [...]
Posted in Prayer, Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2009 1 Comment »
Happy Triduum!
The Institution of the Eucharist on Holy Thursday… the first Mass, the promise of Christ’s continuing, substantial presence with us until he comes again… the solemnity and joy of this day cannot be overstated!
As a helpful reflection from the Knights of Columbus states:
I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with [...]
Posted in Life, Uncategorized, seminary on Mar 29th, 2009 No Comments »
(Yes, this is the first post in over three months. Yes, I have resolved numerous times to give the blog some attention. And yes, I’m publicly pledging to do exactly that.)
It is a regular occurrence to have school field trips come see the grounds at the Athenaeum/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary. As seminarians, [...]