Posted in Holy Hour, Priesthood, discernment, seminary on Jul 12th, 2010 No Comments »
This past weekend I attended a friend’s wedding in another diocese. Allowing extra travel time for potential construction delays and traffic, but encountering neither, I arrived at the church a bit early. Being a seminarian, I of course took the time to snoop around a bit, critiquing the architecture, artwork, etc. And, [...]
Posted in Holy Hour, Priesthood, Religious Life, discernment on Jul 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
So, now that I am on summer break, I’ve had some time to reflect on my first year in seminary. Mostly, I’ve been trying to figure out why God is calling me to the diocesan priesthood. I’m fairly certain it is my vocation (though obviously that remains a mutual discernment with the Church [...]
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 Holy Hour, Priesthood, discernment on Aug 4th, 2008 No Comments »
The seminarians of Mount St. Mary’s of the West are scattered for the summer doing various sorts of great things. Most are working in parishes within the Archdiocese, living in a rectory and learning how we can integrate our studies to the real life of a parish. One of the guys went down to Honduras [...]
Posted in Holy Hour, discernment on Mar 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
Reflection for Youth Holy Hour for Vocations by Seminarian David Endres
Our Lady of Victory Church, March 3, 2008
Reading: Isaiah 6:1-8
Think about an important choice you’ve had to make – maybe it was a decision to attend a certain school, to play on a particular sports team, or join a club or organization. Or [...]
Posted in Holy Hour, Prayer, Priesthood, Religious Life on Dec 20th, 2007 3 Comments »
A Traveling Monstrance, which was blessed by Pope John Paul II in November 2004 for the specific intention of praying for increased vocations to the priesthood and religious life is coming to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati once again! (It made its first appearance during the year of the Eucharist in March of 2005 for a [...]
Posted in Holy Hour, Prayer, Priesthood, discernment, seminary on Mar 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
The following is Fr. Ken Morman’s homily from the Friday Evening Holy Hour during the just completed Welcome Weekend at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary.
Lectionary #324 – Heb 12:1-4
It’s Welcome Weekend and we are here at prayer in the presence of the risen Christ. It’s also Friday of the fourth week of Lent, and that gives [...]