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It was a privilege to be able to give them this token of our appreciation, in return for their friendship and all the times they have helped us out.

We stand tall in our all-black because we know He has been with us here, and he will continue to be with us as we go out.

In my first year of seminary, I have been invited to further enter into the mystery of the Holy Cross.

After these days of hiddenness, God will return our hearts to us renewed and filled with even greater joy.

St. Joseph’s life wasn’t perfectly structured to do the most efficient work. As a result, he was able to be open to God’s work, and God turned him into a great man and a great saint.

Seminarians studying to be priests in America can learn much from the examples and lives of these American saints.

In opening ourselves up to more of the vulnerabilities that life with less technology allows, we find ourselves more deeply immersed in the lives of others.

It was great to get to know these students better and see in my heart a desire to be a priest in the lives of these students. I saw that I could be a spiritual father for them.

Living amidst this constant Marian environment that the seminary fosters has been and continues to be a great blessing.

We are extremely blessed and thankful to be built up by the strong familial brotherhood here at St. John Paul II Seminary.

We enter the quiet darkness of the night with the light of Christian hope.

As a husband and wife withhold nothing from each other, I want to give everything over to the Lord in fidelity to him.

The Lord is present in the real people around us, and that is where he invites us into relationship with Himself.

What kept me going on the bike was not the desire to say that I had completed the ride, but the feeling of gratitude for being in God’s creation.

For Karol, it became clear that the events of time can only be seen through the lens of eternity and time’s longing for fulfillment in Eternal Life.

Being a sacristan has helped me enter into the reality of what is really happening on the altar during Mass: the re-presentation of the Crucified Christ on Calvary.

Fighting with great discipline to win a perishable crown in track and field formed the foundation for Anthony to dedicate his life to the Lord and follow Him to the achievement of an imperishable crown of glory in Heaven.

The Holy Spirit wants to use my humiliations, my faults, and my weaknesses to form me into the man that I was created to become.

My song of praise is the song that God himself sings; my life is a thread that he weaves into a worthy tapestry.

There is joyful anticipation at the seminary during Holy week, joy rooted in the paradox of the cross.