St Vincents Seminary - Vincentian Yearbook (Montebello, CA)

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The Seminary has improved in many respects over the past few years. Since Fr. Ruhl's appoint- ment as Vocation Director three years ago, our program is what has changed most dra- at St. Vincent's. Father has instituted new methods of recruitment. Among these, Vocation Weekend Retreat has perhaps been most popular and fruitful of his projects. Re- offers prospective seminarians an oppor- to learn about and to live the life of a sem- And because the conducting of a retreat a unified community, working together body and in spiit, the vocation retreats have in us a more inspired commitment to the which we have elected to pursue at St. Vin- Through Pr. Ruhl's endeavor especially, Vincentian light has been revealed to others has become an even more meaningful light ' e HHH A. A Q. ,. A :W W gtk 'I I ,I . 1 f-H ' ' - W' vl ln' 'xg .xr L-A ii' Y-55

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Each week a seminarian will visit nearby St. Bene- dict's to counsel individ- ually one of the parish's mentally handicapped children in the principles of the Christian faith, in selected prayers and the commandments. in Though trying, no task is more personally re- warding to a seminarian, who feels fulfilled and elated when the child with whom he has been working so diligently finally learns to recite a simple prayer by heart. Of course, special coun- selling requires great pa- tience on the part of the seminarian. But when he has accomplished his task - teaching a child to pray - he knows that God is indeed working through him. .., , -in - me Q 4. T . . an-nn.-1---.4 ,Ng ,K ,, 3 . E? 22 ir 'K f..- Li.. f--4 wg' A -.sgf

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