General

This past J-term, eight University of St. Thomas Church and Culture study abroad students (including six SJV seminarians) experienced profound joy in a surprising place: the poverty of Mexico’s Neza Dump.

Seminarians reflect on sixteen days serving the poorest of the poor in Kolkata, India with St. Teresa of Calcutta’s Missionaries of Charity.

The life of a seminarian at SJV is markedly different from most of his 18-22-year-old contemporaries. How does the seminary help him acclimate to the nuances of university and seminary life while laying the groundwork to support his vocational discernment?

Saint John Vianney College Seminary is pleased to announce that our generous benefactors have raised more than $1.5 million to furnish our new chapel and facilities. Thanks be to God!

The heart of Saint John Vianney College Seminary, our new chapel is where seminarians for generations to come will learn to recognize the voice of the Father and receive the courage they need to follow His will for their lives.

We recently caught up with Weir to discuss family life and his military career – and how his time at SJV helped shape it all.

“I’m terrified to hold a baby.” A gentleman told Saint John Vianney College Seminary alumnus, Luke Spehar, this as they sat down at Pregnancy Choices pregnancy resource center in Apple Valley, Minnesota. The man’s wife was pregnant, and he was preparing to become a father.

Entering a countercultural existence can come with some culture shock. But the seminary is structured in such a way that help with the transition comes from fellow seminarians who went through the same process not so long ago.

Father Jeffrey Norfolk, a priest of the Diocese of Sioux Falls, joined Saint John Vianney College Seminary as a formation adviser at the start of the 2022-23 academic year.