St Andrews Seminary - Mapav Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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A MINCR SEMINARY The Foundahon STone Wrse wrTh The wrsdom oT cenTurres and wrTh The gurdance oT The T-loly SprrrT The Church has decreed ThaT candrdaTes Tor The prresThood should spend ThaT characTer Tormrng perrod OT youTh close To The sancTuary EcclesrasTrcs rn hrgh posrTrons Trom SarnT Charles Borromeo To Pope Leo Xlll have vorced Thrs unanrmous oprnron now embodred rn Canon Law ThaT Two semrnarres be esTablrshed rn prrncrpal droceses The malor semrnary Tor candrdaTes oT phrlosophy and Theology and The mrnor semrnary Tor youThs pursurng The humanrTres rn preparaTron Tor The maror semrnary IT rs rndeed a known TacT ThaT Our Drvrne Lord desrgned no parTrcular age when He would whrsper The call Tor Hrs prresThood To some unsuspecTrng candrdaTe Take up your cross and Tollow Me For brevrTy leT us drvrde man s lrTe span rnTo early and laTe sTages T-Tearrng Our Lord s call rn hrs laTer sTage The candrdaTe upon accepTrng has no alTernaTrve or problems because he rmmedraTely knows he musT leave hrs college or proTessron and hrs nexT sTep rs To be enrolled aT a maror semrnary Turnrng To The youTh recervrng God s call rn hrs early sTage we are conTronTed wrTh a drTTerenT srTuaTron T-Irs mrnd rs made up hrs goal he realrzes rs The hrghesT The prresThood Hrs problems are noT solved buT Therr soluTrons are perchance crosses rn Themselves Hrs rs The problem To announce hrs prresTly vocaTron To perhaps unsym paTheTrc parenTs whose conTrary pronouncemenT prerces hrm lrke so many ungurded arrows To wound ThaT hearT whrch loves Them so much lmagrne The angursh a young candrdaTe would have To endure rT aTTer The prresTly cross appeals To hrm and all WrTh no mrnor semrnary To TosTer hrm he would be Torced To reopardrze hrs voca rron rn a secondary school whose currrculum rs noT adapTed To graduaTe candrdaTes Tor The maror semrnary Nor do we censure The secondary schools Tor noT berng Thauma TurgrsTs because no one expecTs surgeons To be graduaTed Trom law schools buT nerTher should we expecT semrnarrans To be drscrplrned rn hrgh schools The sTudres rn secondary schools cannoT be as Thorough as rn semrnarres Tor The Tormer lacks moTrve power or To be more emphaTrc The Tormer Teaches general subrecTs whrle The laTTer oTTers a deTrnrTe specralrzed currrculum sTressrng one end The prresThood A mere acquarnTance wrTh a romance language a smaTTerrng oT LaTrn and Englrsh a course rn Typrng and a promrnenT place rn sporTs rs Too oTTen a years achrevemenT rn any hrgh school and yeT some hopeTul candrdaTes Tor The alTar are lrTerally Torced To Thrs en vrronmenT To have Trme To Thrnk over God s decrsron EnvrronmenT brologrsTs have emphasrzed rs To a greaT exTenT The deTermrnrng TacTor rn The burldrng up OT characTer No maTTer how well Eskrmos love Troprcal Tlowers nor how vehemenTly They care Tor Them The Tlowers wrll never Thrrve rn The ArcTrc zone From all angles especrally rn exTra currrcular acTrvrTres school and socral evenTs secular rdeas and The world s dazzlrng glrTTer Tend To dull The gem consrgned To some youThs The call To God s alTar Berng human The chosen candrdaTe rn many rnsTances whrle TrequenTrng a secondary school unconscrously permrTs The drvrne call To become a mere echo slowly Tadrng rnTo oblrvron naman! Judah: Afton 50 - . obsTacles overcome, he had no minor seminary To aTTend. ' - - ' 'I 6 ' ' 1 l

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On The oTher hand un munor semunarues places where young pruesTly aspuranTs are To be guuded Trom The conTamunaTuon OT The world wheTher sTudenTs be un The chapel class or aT recreaTuOn They have always The spuruTual aTmosphere OT The pruesT and The semunary For companuons The semunaruan has only boys whose purpose us sumular To hus own The hughesT DemosThenes wuTh hus mOuTh Tull OT pebbles was Traun ung Tor hus greaTness as an OraTOr why should aspuraruTs To Holy Orders be depruved OT Traunung un a munor semunary molded TO beTTer hug uudgmenT and To sTrengThen hus wull by every acT OT obeduence7 Thunlc OT havung a chapel under your own rOoT OT aTTendung dauly Mass OT recuTung Our Ladys Rosary dauly OT havung The OppOrTunuTy OT perTormung spuruTual exercuses un common and OT havung The rughT To unvolce Mary as The MoTher OT Semunaruans' Should an aspuranT s soul be depruved OT Thus sTrengTh and nourushmenT7 How necessary munor semunarues are' Theurs us The Taslc To munu muze or desTroy worldly mundedness and To unculcaTe The spuruT OT sancTuTy so neces ACCELERATION AT SAINT ANDREWS AT The requesT OT The Tederal gOvernmenT an acceleraTed course un sTudues has been unTrOduced aT The semunary Thus year Such a course could nOT be a permanenT polucy OT The Church buT because OT The sTraun On her pruesThOOd and The demand Tor pruesTs as chaplauns un The armed Torces The Holy lvlOTher The Church allows uT To be carrued on durung war Tumes Sunce acceleraTuOn was only unTrOduced aT SaunT Andrews Thus pasT year Thus senuor class us The TursT un The husTOry OT The semunary To be graduaTed un accordance wuTh such a sysTern The Church under The unspuraTuon OT The Holy GhOsT has deTer muned a deTunuTe number OT years OT Traunung Tor a sTudenT who Teels a callung To The pruesThood The necessuTy Tor These long years OT Traunung us nOT prumaruly because OT The courses ThaT are unvolved sunce They can be acceleraTed wuTh luTTle loss To The sTudenT buT raTher because The Church lcruows absOluTely ThaT years OT spuruTual duscu plune are essenTual for her pruesThood She realuzes ThaT an unTumaTe love OT AlmughTy God can never be learned Trom a TexT bool: IT can be acquured only by slow and careTul developmenT under proper guudance and counsel WuTh Thus ThoughT un mund we are deTermuned TO work zealously un our sTudues and TO cOOperaTe puously wuTh The grace OT The Holy C5hOsT Tor our Own personal sanc TuTucaTuOn Perhaps by means OT Thus same grace peace may be resTOred To our naTuOn un The near TuTure and Then we wull be able TO reTurn To The sysTem ThaT us un lceepung wuTh The mund OT The Church ,bzamoml guards Afton 5 I sary in a prIesT and seminarian. I K 0 C i I I