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I am incredibly grateful for the amazing experiences I’ve had and the friendships I’ve made with the Lord and my brother seminarians. 

The love that the saints bear for us is powerful in times of hardship, for they teach us how to suffer beside and together with Jesus and how to love our neighbors, not just as ourselves, but as Jesus Himself loves them.

One of the most significant graces is realizing the value of my prayers and sufferings. My prayers and sufferings, united with our Lord’s, have become a means by which the pains of the poor souls in Purgatory can be alleviated.

Truly, the holy hour has the power to change everything that we are. The way that we look at God, and the way that we see him looking at us. It can open our hearts further, to receive his love, and it can fill our hearts, so that they are overflowing.

As followers of Christ, we need to be his in everything so that others can find that fulfillment.

Between the friendships that make the University feel like a home and the mission work that orients us toward our Heavenly home, campus life is a blessing from God and one that I hope has not passed me by.

This is where our Lord and our Lady form their hearts. Like any good parent, Jesus and Mary know with specificity what each of us needs before we even realize it.

In retrospect, I am grateful for the firehose that orientation week was. Orientation week allowed me to dive in, embrace my new home, and trust that this is where the Lord wants me to be.

It was a privilege to be able to give them this token of our appreciation, in return for their friendship and all the times they have helped us out.

We stand tall in our all-black because we know He has been with us here, and he will continue to be with us as we go out.

In my first year of seminary, I have been invited to further enter into the mystery of the Holy Cross.

After these days of hiddenness, God will return our hearts to us renewed and filled with even greater joy.

St. Joseph’s life wasn’t perfectly structured to do the most efficient work. As a result, he was able to be open to God’s work, and God turned him into a great man and a great saint.

Seminarians studying to be priests in America can learn much from the examples and lives of these American saints.

In opening ourselves up to more of the vulnerabilities that life with less technology allows, we find ourselves more deeply immersed in the lives of others.

It was great to get to know these students better and see in my heart a desire to be a priest in the lives of these students. I saw that I could be a spiritual father for them.

Living amidst this constant Marian environment that the seminary fosters has been and continues to be a great blessing.

We are extremely blessed and thankful to be built up by the strong familial brotherhood here at St. John Paul II Seminary.

We enter the quiet darkness of the night with the light of Christian hope.

As a husband and wife withhold nothing from each other, I want to give everything over to the Lord in fidelity to him.