I don’t believe that the “number of seminarians per parish per year” is a fair metric to decide which parishes close. Even if it were, not every person with a religious vocation stays within their childhood diocese.
I don’t believe that the “number of seminarians per parish per year” is a fair metric to decide which parishes close. Even if it were, not every person with a religious vocation stays within their childhood diocese.
This is my diocese. I agree, if the number of seminarians was a fair metric, then the whole diocese should be closed down. I believe the diocese has had one seminarian in the last decade. We are in desperate need of a revival.
Although if the people started making holy hours for vocations one might soon find the problem resolved, and replaced with the problem of paying for the education of all those seminarians. That's what happened here.
Amen x1,000. In every parish in my diocese that opened a perpetual adoration chapel, there was at least one seminarian from that parish in the next few years.
I don’t believe that the “number of seminarians per parish per year” is a fair metric to decide which parishes close. Even if it were, not every person with a religious vocation stays within their childhood diocese.
This is my diocese. I agree, if the number of seminarians was a fair metric, then the whole diocese should be closed down. I believe the diocese has had one seminarian in the last decade. We are in desperate need of a revival.
If it is diocesan wide, then the problem resides with the clergy and less so with the laity.
Although if the people started making holy hours for vocations one might soon find the problem resolved, and replaced with the problem of paying for the education of all those seminarians. That's what happened here.
Amen x1,000. In every parish in my diocese that opened a perpetual adoration chapel, there was at least one seminarian from that parish in the next few years.