Future Priests of the Third Millennium

Yay! Yes – those are “my” guys, praise God! Here in St. Paul/Minneapolis we are so blessed, we have so many Adoration chapels and so many good and holy vocations. First our Archbishop cleaned up our minor seminary and transformed it into one of the best formation houses for young men in the nation (and now the biggest!), and then a few years ago he began bringing in new blood to transform the darkness that was St. Paul Sem into a place that is now certainly working for the Lord to bring about priests to plant the seeds for the new Springtime!

And – if you look at that video, you will even see (and hear, a little bit) our majestic cathedral, my beloved parish! 🙂 The scenes from that were from our ordinations in 2005, where our Archbishop ordained 15 new priests for the Archdiocese. The sanctuary almost couldn’t hold them all! I was fortunate enough to be standing right next to that videographer in that front pew (I was taking still photos for some of the ordinands), it was a sight that I remember more fondly and clearly than all the things I saw in my year in Italy.