The Rome Experience

📸 Snapshots from Florence!

The group began their time in Italy with a two-day stop in Florence, enjoying a walking tour of the city center as well as tours of the Accademia, Museo di San Marco, and the Basilica di Santa Croce with guide, TourItaly by Christina Mifsud.

They now begin their 5-day silent retreat in Bracciano before traveling to Rome!

...and they're off!

After welcoming the seminarians for a quick program orientation held at , the group is on its way to Italy! They'll spend two days in Florence exploring the city before traveling to Bracciano for their 5-day silent retreat.

We're 10 days away from welcoming the Class of 2026!

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"The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus! No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they wish to catch a glimpse of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur and dignity of the priest!" // St. John Paul II

"Every Christian has the duty to bring peace and joy to his own surroundings on earth. This cheerful crusade of manliness will move even shriveled or rotten hearts, and raise them to God." // St. Josemaria Escriva; Furrow, no. 92

"Every vocation begins with the awareness and experience of a God who is love. He knows us profoundly; he has counted the hairs of our head and has envisaged for each person a unique path of holiness and service. Yet this awareness must always be reciprocal. We are invited to know God through prayer, listening to the Word, the Sacraments, the life of the Church and works of charity for our brothers and sisters." // Pope Leo XIV, World Day of Prayer for Vocations

The countdown begins!

We're one month away from welcoming this year's class of seminarians... and taking more selfies from St. Peter's! 📸

"Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'" // St. John Paul II

"We are, each of us, like a small mirror in which God searches for his reflection." // St. John Vianney

"Easter is a time of joy—a joy not confined to this period of the liturgical year, but to be found really and fully in the Christian's heart. For Christ is alive." // St. Josemaria Escriva; Christ is Passing By, no. 102