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Seminarians in the Diocese of Raleigh

Please adopt a seminarian, and pray for him daily until his ordination.

  • Sergio Arango (ESL Student)
  • Deacon Romen Acero (4th Year Theology)
  • Jonathon Baggett (1st Year College)
  • Juan Pablo Barrientos Hoyos
    (2nd Year Theology)
  • Al Benthal (2nd Year Pre-Theology)
  • Brendan Buckler (1st Year Theology)
  • Michael Burbeck (1st Year Pre-Theology)
  • Paul Cottrill (1st Year Pre-Theology)
  • Ryan Elder (1st Year Pre-Theology)
  • Charles Fraune (1st Year Pre-Theology)
  • John Gournas (2nd Year Theology)
  • Ron Hackett (1st Year Pre-Theology)
  • Alex Hernandez (2nd Year College)
  • Juan Manuel Lopez (ESL Student)
  • Patrick McLaughlin (1st Year College)
  • Don Maloney (4th Year College)
  • Adam Richard (2nd Year College)
  • Alexis Barreto Rincon (ESL student)
  • Eladio Hernandez Rios (ESL Student)
  • Deacon Michael Spurr (4th Theology)



Daily Prayer for a Seminarian
Until his Ordination to the Priesthood


(Used by the Curé D'Ars Prayer Group Members)


O Jesus, Eternal High Priest,
I offer You through Your Immaculate Mother Mary,
Your own Precious Blood, in all the Masses throughout the world, as petition for graces for all seminarians, Your future priests, especially for......

Give them humility, meekness, prudence, and a burning zeal for soul. Fill their hearts with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Teach them to know and love the church, that they may always and everywhere speak, act, and think with her, the glorious spouse of Christ.

Teach them generosity and detachment from wordly goods; but above all, teach them to know You and to love the One and Only Eternal Priest. good Shepherd of Souls, hear this my prayer for saintly priests.
Amen.


Saint Lawrence



Daily Prayer for a Seminarian
Until his Ordination to the Priesthood


God our Father,
You have chosen Your Son, Jesus Christ,
to reveal Yourself to us.

You have chosen Your Church to show us Your love through Him.
You have chosen ___________, your son,
to be a priest as a sign of that love to Your people.

We pray that the Holy Spirit continue to fill him with Your peace and joy as he prepares for the holy priesthood.

We pray that through his priesthood he may proclaim the wonder of Your faithfulness and love to all through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Amen.




Prayer for Seminarians
(Used as the Diocesean Prayer for Vocation)


O Lord Jesus Christ, great High Priest, I pray that You call many worthy souls to Your holy priesthood.

Enlighten the Bishop in the choice of candidates, the Spiritual Director in molding them, and the professors in instructing them.

Lead the seminarians daily in Your unerring footsteps; so that they may become priests who are models of purity, possessors of wisdom and heroes of sacrifice;
steeped in humility and aflame with love for God and man; apostles of Your glory and sanctifiers of souls.
Amen.

Mary, Queen of the Clergy, pray for us.

Saint Charles Borromeo, pray for our seminarians.

Saint Charles Borromeo



Links

  • Vocation (Raleigh Diocese NC)
  • Vocation Holy Hour (Raleigh Diocese NC)
  • Bishop Burbidge Requests Prayers for Seminarians

    Seminaries

  • Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary (Philadelphia)
  • Saint Andrew College Seminary (New Jersey)
  • Saint John Vianney College Seminary (Florida)
  • Theological College (Washington DC)
  • Saint Mary's Seminary (Baltimore)

    Documents

  • Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons
    with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders
    (Congregation for Catholic Education)


  • Instruction on the Careful Selection And Training Of Candidates For The States Of Perfection And Sacred Orders (Sacred Congregation For Religious)

  • Instruction on Liturgical Formation in Seminaries (Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education)

  • Spiritual Formation in Seminaries (Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education)

  • "Optatam Totius" Decree on Priestly Training (Pope Paul VI)

  • "Ubi Primum" On the Duties of Bishops (Pope Benedict XIV)

  • To Seminarians (Pope Pius XII)

  • Priestly Vocations