My Story
I had not thought about the seminary until this past school year. I always thought you had to be a nerd to join the seminary. I went on a Rome pilgrimage the summer before my first year of college in 2008. It was very powerful. It was at adoration one day when I thought about the seminary for the first time. At that point, I had been dating a girl for the previous two years, so my thoughts of the seminary that summer were short lived. I went to the University of North Dakota for my first year of college and loved it. I was still dating my girlfriend, and we had plans for the future. During college I started going to daily Mass a couple times a week and then went to Eucharistic adoration for an hour a week. As I was growing in faith, my relationship with my girlfriend was slowly drifting apart. Out of the blue, my girlfriend broke up with me, and told me I need to seriously start thinking about the seminary. I didn't think the seminary was right for me. I then went on two different seminary visits throughout the school year. I became very attracted to the life of a priest and a seminarian. I realized that I had been fighting the call to seminary this whole time. I gave in to God's will. I have never been happier. Knowing that I am in the seminary has been a huge weight off my shoulders.
