Seminary: the diocese's seedbed. Seminaries – the Latin word for "seed bed"– are today's sown field for the priests of tomorrow. In recent days, Rome received a visit from a Spanish Seminary from …More
Seminary: the diocese's seedbed.
Seminaries – the Latin word for "seed bed"– are today's sown field for the priests of tomorrow. In recent days, Rome received a visit from a Spanish Seminary from Cordoba. Its Bishop, Juan José Asenjo, underlines the importance of a seminary in a diocese.
"A body without a heart or a soul is a dead body; a diocese without a seminary is an institution with no future."
The visit to the tombs of Peter and Paul occurs on the 425th anniversary of the creation of the San Pelagio Seminary of Cordoba, and on the 25th anniversary of its reopening.
“The seventies were years of crises, then, in 1982, the seminary reopened and since then, approximately 100 young priests have been ordained, and we continue praying to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his fields.”
Currently Cordoba has a total of 39 minor seminarians, and 60 adult seminarians. According to the diocese's statistics, 60 percent of the priests ordained in recent
years were minor seminarians.
"Obviously they have not made up theirs minds when they come to the Minor Seminary; however, past experience tells us that many of these vocations were authentic and true.”
One of the house's youngest tells us what his average day is like:
“We get up, eat, go to school like other children; we play, we have the Eucharist, and sure, a normal life like any child."
Seminaries – the Latin word for "seed bed"– are today's sown field for the priests of tomorrow. In recent days, Rome received a visit from a Spanish Seminary from Cordoba. Its Bishop, Juan José Asenjo, underlines the importance of a seminary in a diocese.
"A body without a heart or a soul is a dead body; a diocese without a seminary is an institution with no future."
The visit to the tombs of Peter and Paul occurs on the 425th anniversary of the creation of the San Pelagio Seminary of Cordoba, and on the 25th anniversary of its reopening.
“The seventies were years of crises, then, in 1982, the seminary reopened and since then, approximately 100 young priests have been ordained, and we continue praying to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his fields.”
Currently Cordoba has a total of 39 minor seminarians, and 60 adult seminarians. According to the diocese's statistics, 60 percent of the priests ordained in recent
years were minor seminarians.
"Obviously they have not made up theirs minds when they come to the Minor Seminary; however, past experience tells us that many of these vocations were authentic and true.”
One of the house's youngest tells us what his average day is like:
“We get up, eat, go to school like other children; we play, we have the Eucharist, and sure, a normal life like any child."