Borromeo Seminary

This year, our goal is to raise $5,000 for the Borromeo Student Activities Fund. This fund allows our students to attend cultural events and compete in athletic activities as part of their seminary formation. It also helps with costs associated with retreats and trips to shrines.  

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Who We Are

Formation and the Seminary Today:
In the past three decades, some major changes were made by Rome and the United States Conference of Bishops that impact how seminaries understand the formation process. Formation is now viewed in phases, personal benchmarks that must be achieved before he moves to the next level. These benchmarks contain human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral elements that require integration throughout the time spent in formation. Like the past model of formation, there is a certain gradualism in the process that allows each seminarian to mature at his own pace. However, today there is a more personalized map that each seminarian must begin to prepare for himself. What does this map look like? In these years of formation, the seminarian is called to embrace his personal humanity. This includes self-knowledge of his gifts as well as areas that need further growth. He becomes vulnerable in the process and at that same time transparent with a spiritual director and formation advisor (a public life coach) who mentors him. He must learn how to interact with others in the marketplace and field hospitals of the city. He engages the culture of today. He is exposed to the beauty of music and art by attending concerts and visiting art museums. He travels and appreciates ethnic diversity, partakes in unfamiliar cuisine, and is subjected to ideas that stretch him outside of his comfort zone. He learns how to debate with his peers through the lens of the gospel. The seminarian embraces a healthy lifestyle through diet and exercise. He plays intermural sports and has a daily workout routine to balance his study and prayer time. He learns to be a well-rounded Christian man who is prepared to lay down his life for sake of the Gospel in order to be all things to all people in Christ.