Live from St. Mary's Seminary

I have been here at St. Mary's Seminary in the Roland Park section of Baltimore, Maryland for over a week. Now, after a week of orientation, socializing, prayer, and retreat, we finally have some downtime...an excellent time to scribble a quick blog-post!

There has been a lot of information thrown at us in a brief amount of time; I am hoping some of it sticks! Overall, the main purpose of the seminary is to help in the spiritual, intellectual, human, and ministerial formation of men who are discerning priesthood.

Mary, Seat of Wisdom

The seminary is an integrative environment, one in which we hope to grow into our identities as potential priestly ministers. One of the great role models for us seminarians (and all Christians, too) is Mary, the Mother of Jesus. The Blessed Virgin Mary was open to God's call and responded with great generosity. She wrestled in her heart with the mysteries of her Son. And Mary was there at the foot of the Cross as her Son suffered. With such devotion came the eventual consolation of the Resurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit!

We honor Jesus' Mother here at the seminary with the title of "Seat of Wisdom." It was from this "seat" that Jesus, Who is Wisdom itself, was born and raised and became man. May we all be open to the Wisdom of Christ and the example of His Mother, Mary, the Seat of Wisdom!