For several years now, a student-founded and student-led group of seminarians at Mundelein Seminary in Chicago has been chopping wood for life. The many acres of woods at the seminary have trees that die or fall quite regularly. The grounds crew chops them up, puts them in a pile, and then a dedicated group of seminarians goes to early Mass, is fed by a hearty breakfast cooked by seminarian Nick Blaha of Kansas City, and then splits the logs for use as firewood. (You may remember Nick’s video from the orphanage this summer). They sell the wood at a great price to local folks, and the money is used to support a local pro-life organization. It’s great healthy activity and for a good cause.
So three cheers for our future priests doing what they can to take an axe to the culture of death.
September 17, 2009 at 6:59 am
Four cheers if they also will be learning and performing the EF of the liturgy.
September 17, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Four cheers if they also will be learning and performing the EF of the liturgy.
Oh, from your lips to God's ears!! I attended Mundelein in the early 1990's, and it was about as far from the EF (at that point) as one can be, and still remain on the same contiguous land mass…
September 17, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Is there ANYTHING that some blog readers can't turn into a comment on the Extraordinary Form?
September 22, 2009 at 3:15 am
I was one of the Czars of chopping after the founder, Fr. Wally, graduated, and Fr. Quinn, too. Nick Blaha – Chop On! I am proud to see you continuing the tradition.
Mundelein, imperfect and incomplete as any seminary, is nonetheless a strong place to prepare for priesthood. It is not perfect, but it is far better than the stories of it from the past. Pray for seminarians, seminaries, rectors, seminary professors, but don't assume Mundelein is merely the hair-raising tales of the 80's and 90's. Not to mention many good priests that were ordained from there in those years.
God Bless,
Fr. Ben