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CajunRick
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Posted: Tue May 20th, 2008 05:49 pm |
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St. Louis, May 20, 2008 / 05:33 am (CNA).- Archbishop of St. Louis Raymond L. Burke will ordain nine men to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of St. Louis on Saturday at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.
It is the largest ordination class for the archdiocese since 1987.
Some credit Archbishop Burke for the boom in seminarians. A frequent visitor to the seminary, the archbishop sometimes drops by unannounced for lunches with the students.
"He's the center and the core of this whole thing," archdiocesan vocations director Rev. Michael Butler said to the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Archbishop Burke explained that he decided vocations would be one of his priorities.
"A bishop's principal responsibility is to provide priests for the people in his pastoral care," the archbishop said in an interview last week from Rome. "Ordinations have to be absolutely right at the top of my priorities."
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has reported that Archbishop Burke has a habit of inviting each student at the Kenrick-Glennon Seminary for a walk near his residence. “The walks,” as the seminarians call them, are opportunities for the young men to have heart-to-heart talks with their archbishop.
Seminary officials organize the walks using time sheets. When new sheets are posted, seminarians rush to sign up.
“It's like when you throw pellets at the Japanese fish at the Botanical Gardens," said ordinand Edward Nemeth, 26. "Guys falling over each other to get their names on the list.”
There are more than 100 men enrolled at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, more than half of whom are studying to be priests for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Monsignor Ted Wojcicki, president of the seminary, said he hopes to enroll 120 students next year.All of the ordinands have earned master of divinity degrees and master of arts degrees in theology from Kenrick-Glennon Seminary.
The above article is reposted with permission from the Catholic News Agency.
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Steven Barrett
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| Location: | Hadley, Massachusetts USA |
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Posted: Thu Jun 12th, 2008 03:27 pm |
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St. Louis' Archbishop Raymond L. Burke gets results because he demands them well in advance from his future priests to properly feed and lead their sheep. And he knows these young men will deliver because they've been properly trained in how to get the job done.
I was only a B student in college theology, but if I could figure that out, even after a period of youthfully inspired ignorance that fueled my "dissentint period" -- it shouldn't take a lot of other more theologically gifted guys and gals to see what works. Desire for the Truth, and the dedication and determination to make sure it's taught Truthfully and properly.
Boy, that took a lot of thunking on my part. But I have some thanking to Wikipedia for including this quote from Fr. Corapi concerning priestly formation: Tolle legge folks!
Readeth these words from someone who really knows what works!
"Let me tell you how NOT to have vocations: 1) disobey the Church. 2) Do not accept the teaching of the Magisterium of the Church. 3) Bad mouth the Pope and send them to lousy seminaries. You will have NO vocations! Kiss 'em goodbye! It is absolutely fatal to play fast and loose with faith and morals. Things are getting better but we've gone through a very dry period in the Church. I can give you example after example of religious congregations and dioceses that are doing just great with vocations. Why? Because they're faithful. Period. Because they're faithful. They don't play games with the Doctrine of the Faith. They don't try to promote in seminarians a kind of attitude of liberal dissent. That is the kiss of death and I can prove it time and time and time again that wherever that is done, there are no vocations. And there won't be. There won't be. Where things are done properly, there are vocations. It's not hard. It's not rocket science."
With apologies to Vince Lombardi, if Fr. Corapi was a seminary rector, he'd be greeting his new seminarians with this greeting: Gentlemen, this is the Catechism ...Last edited on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 03:31 pm by Steven Barrett
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