What happens in a seminary?
You would have a schedule of life where you would gather together to pray together each day, where the students, as they would be called seminarians, would be then going into classes for philosophy and theology. They would then come back together, and the ordinary life force will take place. They would have breakfast, meals, play together, and play football. If you have enough of them in the seminary you could have two teams. Then they would be looking after the grounds. Again, I am talking about the diocese, and the priest students works in that kind of style. For ourselves as religious priesthood, we used to go to a college to study. We used to come back - you could call it a seminary, we call it a scholastic. When you talk about scholastic, you talk about scholars. People who are studying and living together, so it was a sense of where we shared community life. We would cook and we would eat. We would enjoy our life, we would have leisure time together. We would also go from there to pastoral work, volunteer in different places of ministry, come back together, share prayer again and create a rhythm of life where my desire to become a priest or religious is able to grow, deepen and be nourished.
