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Austin Holgard

Douglas Krebs

Birth Date: 12/19/1989
Home parish: Cathedral of the Holy Spirit
High School attended: St. Mary’s Central High School
Year in Seminary: College II
Seminary Attending: St. John Vianney Seminary
Hobbies and Interests: Hunting, Running, Reading, and Sports
Heroes: Jerome Richter and Reed Ruggles

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.

 

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