Spiritual Formation
In this supportive and flexible environment, you are encouraged - and challenged - as you undergo the spiritual development that will help you to answer your very personal question: Should you become a priest?
Your time at St. John Neumann Seminary College will help you to appreciate that a calling to the priesthood involves both a gift and a demand. To enable you to discern whether you are ready to make the total commitment required for the priesthood, the Neumann Residence offers the prayerful atmosphere that can stimulate the acceptance of the grace required to answer the call.
Perhaps St. John Neumann Seminary College has the program you need. It will provide you with an opportunity to consider if Christ may be calling you to the extraordinary adventure of sharing in His Priesthood. It will enable you to discern if Christ wants your person, your intelligence, your energy, your faith, your love, your holiness. It will give you a chance to reflect and pray over these moving words of Pope John Paul II:
"If it is to Priesthood that Christ is calling you, it is because He wishes to exercise His Priesthood through your dedication and Priestly mission. He wants to speak to the people of today through your voice; He wants to consecrate the Eucharist and forgive sins through you. He wants to live with your heart. He wants to help with your hands. He wants to save through your efforts. Think about it carefully. The response you give is given personally to Christ."
You will have ample opportunity for spiritual direction at the St. John Neumann Seminary College. There are conferences and discussions on the spiritual life, as well as special days of prayer and recollection. You will take part in two annual retreats.
