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Congratulations to all the future priests, especially Dave Price. Dave, you're on your way! -Jeff -Jeff Childs Upcoming events you might enjoy: 1.Catholic Conference at the Pikes Peak Center 7/31-8/2. Come see us at the Serra table. 2. Borromeo House yard sale 8/7-8 to raise $ for the house. BIG potluck 8/8 at 3:00 for all seminarians and Serrans. Your friends and families welcome. 3. Serra Vocations Walk 8/16 at 12:15 from Corpus Christi to St Mary\'s. Participants get refreshments/cool T-shirts. Can you join us ? Charlene -Serra Club Adam, We would love to speak with you, however you did not leave any contact information. On the right side of this page you may submit a question with you e-mail address. If you do that then we can answer your questions and send you some information. God Bless you in your discernment. John -John D. Stearns I am a seminarian taking a break for discernment from the Diocese of Salt Lake City. My parents are moving to Castle Rock and I'm joining them. What would be the best way for me to get tied in with men like you to stay focused on the priesthood? Also, Salt Lake City stopped sending their seminarians to St. John Vianney in the 1990's. Why is that? From what I can tell, I would love to finish my theology work there. -Adam Calliham Thank you for all that you do. Often we hear that members of our generation no longer care about our Church and you are shining examples of how untrue that is. God Bless -Rachel and Todd Makrucki See all comments |  Seminarian BBQ with Bishop Sheridan Welcome to FuturePriest.com, the website of the seminarians in the Pikes Peak Region of Colorado. As each of us strives to become a future priest we ask for your prayers and support. We have developed this site for two reasons: 1) We want to promote vocations to the Catholic Priesthood and religious life, And 2) We want to keep in contact with the parishioners in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs. On these pages you will find links to each seminarian (the links are at the bottom of this page) and his on-line journal if he has one, links that may be useful to you, and links to sponsors and supporters. We hope that you will visit these web pages and support those who support us. If you have questions about vocations, life at the seminary, our activities, want help in discerning a vocation or are just curious about something, please ask. You can ask a general question under our questions section and we will respond to you and post the response. The question section is to the right. Just complete the form and submit. Answers to questions previously asked are directly below the submission form. Just click on a question you are interested in and the answer will appear below the question. You may also e-mail one or several of us directly if you want a private response. Please also feel free to drop us a line just to say “Hi”, or wish us well. Please post a general note in our Guest Book or feel free to send a personal message directly to one of us. Each of the seminarians has his own page with a biography, a link to send him an e-mail and a link to a “Blog”(on-line journal) if he has one. Please note that neither the seminarians nor the diocese monitor or are responsible for the content of links beyond their individual pages or sites. This is a great way to get to know your seminarians. Please visit the sites. They are very entertaining and informative. We greatly appreciate the prayers and support of our parishioners in the Colorado Springs Diocese. Thank you for remembering all seminarians and those discerning a vocation in your daily prayers. May our Lord and His Blessed Mother guide and bless you always. | Questions?
Previous Questions+ Did any of your parents object to your decision to enter the seminary? If so, how did you "convince" them about your true feelings of God's call? My parents didn't. I know of others that they are the only Catholic person in the family. We all have our crosses that we carry, we need to except them like Christ did. -Jason Keas + My son had a vision during mass of Jesus on the cross and a long line of priests next to Jesus. My son felt he was one of the priests. He wonders what a vision like this means. Have any of yu had an experience like that? Mystical experiences like this are both rare gifts, and yet quite common (I know several people who have had experiences that aren't exactly in line with what a scientist would expect). A qualified spiritual director is very important in understanding what things like this mean. If there is a corresponding tug in his heart that is calling him to seek out the priesthood, than talking things over with the vocation director is probably in order. It is indeed a special gift to have such things happen, as God gives things like this to us so that our faith in the Apostolic preaching can be strengthened. - + What are some good catholic seminaries that focus on solid catholic formation? I am a later vocation at age 47 and am looking for diocese that are very solid and orthodox - like yours seems to be. I currenlty am serving as a missionary in NYC. Does your diocese accept older vocations from out of state? thanks and peace Michael,
There are a number of good catholic seminaries but the choices are really up to you and the Bishop of the diocese for which you decide to study. I would encourage you to come and take a look at our diocese, meet the bishop and some of the priests. Our vocation director is Fr. Jim Williams and you can contact him through this site by clicking on his link and sending him an e-mail.
Also, there have been several older vocations which have been recently ordained in our diocese and I am 42 myself. If I can be of further assistance, please e-mail me. You can e-mail me by click on my link on this web page and then clicking the e-mail link. Thank you for your interest. I look forward to hearing from you and will keep you in my prayers.
John D. Stearns -John D. Stearns The person to talk to is Fr. Jim Williams, who is our vocation director. You can email him at vocations@diocs.org
My prayers are with you as you follow the will of our Lord in your life! - + Brandon,
We miss you! Hope that your studies are going well. We have a question for you, do you have a good website that will help us find readings and prayers related to nature. We are starting a Catholic Hiker Association and would love you help! Thanks so much.
Peace,
Rachel and Todd + What are the proceedures of joining your seminary incase you are not from the U.s say from Uganda? Felix,
To enter a seminary in the U.S. you would have to contact the Bishop and vocations director of the diocese you would want to serve here in the U.S. Before being considered a candidate for the seminary you would have to complete a series of interviews and evaluations. If you are from Uganda and want to serve in the U.S. you might also have to interview with your local Bishop there. -Michael Buckley Search all questions |
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