Author Topic: Life as a Seminarian was like movie Platoon (Read 49990 times)

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #30 on:** August 12, 2014, 07:40:06 AM »

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Thanks Matthew. I was playing. Devils advocate. It would be interesting yo know however, if recent seminarians would relate the same type of story.

Of course they would NOT relate anything close to the same type of story.

What you have in this story is a transition period. Seminarians who studied under +W were purged, based on how "influenced" they had been by the good Bishop, and how malleable they were to the new ways.

That was part of it. The other part was the vice-rector's political power plays. That vice rector is no longer there, so obviously all that drama is a thing of the past.

Right now, all the seminarians there have been formed according to a new ideal from day one, with a given leadership in place. So there won't be any other crises, drastic changes, 180 degree turns, or whiplash for now.

Just like there is no crisis/change/whiplash in Novus Ordo churches today. The drastic changes have long been implemented! Those who were shocked by the New Mass, or those who faced a crisis of conscience have long since left.

The changes to Novus order were meticulously done in "phases".

TKGS · « **Reply #31 on:** August 12, 2014, 10:40:06 AM »

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I've heard about ex-seminarians falling all the way down to losing the Faith after their seminary experience. I always wondered incredulously about that -- until I read this. This level of disillusionment would do it.

Indeed.

As I read and as I neared the end, I was reminded of the film, Catholics, now generally available under the title, The Conflict. It truly seemed in many respects to sound similar to the Superior's expression of his loss of faith in the film.

I hope this man has retained the Catholic faith.

stgobnait · « **Reply #32 on:** August 12, 2014, 10:55:13 AM »

i found the whole piece engrossing, and it showed, in a much lesser way of course, the newdirection of the society, and how it now relates to the laity, take us or leave us. there must be many young men who have suffered similarly, my goodness, we were cocooned for a long time, but we are awake now, by the Grace of God.

Ladislaus · « **Reply #33 on:** August 12, 2014, 01:35:09 PM »

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there must be many young men who have suffered similarly

Alas more than we know. I myself knew many who left there as complete basket cases. If I didn't know any better, I might think that it was being done on purpose: "Goodbye, good men."

Luker · « **Reply #34 on:** August 12, 2014, 01:55:06 PM »

Does anyone here know of any memoirs of seminarians (ordained or not) from the earlier Archbishop Lefebvre days in the 70s/80s ? They might make for some interesting reading, to contrast with some of these later reports.