Semantics (A Seminarian Blog)

Completing a crossword requires conformity to the clues given by the puzzle-maker. It's a life lesson the world needs.

Yesterday, the St. John Paul II Seminary choir completed a project that had been in the works for three years.

The seminary's Self-Defense Club teaches men how to subdue a physical aggressor, but its lessons apply to a higher warfare.

Cooperate with God's grace by hitting the practice courts of Lent—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—with even greater fervor.

I received the call to the priesthood later in life, but I have never felt out of place among brothers with an incredible amount of depth, maturity, and warmth of heart.

What I experience in this song is not quite a pain, but rather an ache of recognition, that ache of knowing my heart has been spoken for.

As we watch the smoke disappear into the ceiling, our small and meager prayers are made sweet and presentable to God.

In the words of St. Paul, we are "joint heirs with Christ." On this year's silent retreat I learned what that means.