This may have some useful supplemental info about the brothers from 3:35-15:45

It just occurred to me: The SSPX now has a "Vocations Director."

When I was in the seminary, you went and talked with Bishop Williamson.

Rather odd that they separated the Rector from Vocations Director.

I suppose its all part of goin conciliar (i.e., the conciliar dioceses have "Vocations Directors").

Anyone know when this new position started?  

Sometime after 2012, I would think?

I get the feeling you watched more than just 3:35-15:45 

It just occurred to me: The SSPX now has a "Vocations Director."

When I was in the seminary, you went and talked with Bishop Williamson.

Rather odd that they separated the Rector from Vocations Director.

I suppose its all part of goin conciliar (i.e., the conciliar dioceses have "Vocations Directors").

Anyone know when this new position started? 

Sometime after 2012, I would think?

Yeah, you'd think most priests should qualify as a vocations director wherever they are. Who said the rector is no longer "vocations director" at the seminary? As far as I know, the rector and the spiritual directors still have that job. Maybe the SSPX has found it useful to direct questions about vocations to someone who can specialize in that subject, or who has good skills when it comes to interacting with people on the subject of vacations. I'm sure you can ask Fr McFarland about the history of the position.

It just occurred to me: The SSPX now has a "Vocations Director."


I suppose its all part of goin conciliar (i.e., the conciliar dioceses have "Vocations Directors").

Pre Vatican II dioceses had Vocations Directors and religious orders typically had Vocations Directors distinct from their seminary rectories.  I was born in 1951, I was around back then.

In those days, and before, most priestly vocation recruitment occurred during middle school (grades 6-8) with the idea that those with a vocation (or discerning one) would attend a minor seminary for high school.  An exception was the Jesuits, who didn't have minor seminaries, but they did have preparatory high schools, from which I would think most of their vocations came, though I know of some exceptions.  Only the larger dioceses (usually an Archdiocese, had their own seminaries.  The diocesan vocations director could much more easily visit the parishes and parochial schools and be more readily available to visit with one discerning a vocation.

One advantage of this system was that when the seminarian entered philosophy, he already had four years of Latin and probable two years of Greek from high school.  He would take two or three more years of Latin during philosophy.  He would thereby have a solid six years of Latin before beginning theology.