News

17 March 2011

Blessings to all on this glorious feast of our patron saint!

St. Patrick's Seminary & University is following the lead of this great apostle to Ireland.

The Seminary does this by preparing future priests and renewing those in the field to bring the Gospel to the people in our own missionary territories - at home, at school, in the workplace, and anywhere the challenging and healing touch of the Lord is needed.

(image: St. Patrick Window Main Chapel)

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28 February 2011

The Installation of readers took place in the Seminary chapel on Wednesday, February 23, 2011. Bishop Stephen E.Blaire, Bishop of the Diocese of Stockton presided. 

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04 February 2011

19 October 2010

Seminarians of the world were given support and encouragement in a letter from Pope Benedict XVI on the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist, October 18.

In his letter to seminarians marking the end of the Year for Priests the Pope recalled how in 1944 as a draftee in the German army he expressed his desire to become a Catholic priest to which an officer replied “Then you ought to look for something else. In the new Germany priests are no longer needed.” The Pope then added that “many people nowadays also think that the Catholic priesthood is not a “job” for the future, one that belongs more in the past.”

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09 October 2010

On Wednesday, October 7, 2010 on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary sixteen seminarians were instituted as acolytes at the Seminary. They were installed by Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, Bishop of the Diocese of Oakland.  This was the first ceremony of institution over which the bishop presided at St. Patrick's since his installation in March 2009 as the new Ordinary of Oakland.

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