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SJV gave me that sense of “Your life is not about you. It’s time to put away the boyhood of ‘Let me just do what I want to do’ and become a man.” It’s a daily choice to receive the mission from outside of myself and make that mine.

"Living and working in Rome, especially during moments like the death of a pope or a conclave, you begin to feel as if you’re inside the history book itself or perhaps part of the scroll being unrolled."

The choice of so many SJV alumni to commit to community living is a fruit of what they received here: a vision for following Jesus together with other disciples.

Brennan Crow ‘26 (Archdiocese of St. Paul & Minneapolis) was studying alongside 10 other SJV seminarians in the Eternal City at the time of Cardinal Prevost’s visit to the Irish College in November 2024.

We were grateful to catch up with His Eminence Blaise Cupich ‘71 (Archdiocese of Chicago) and learn what this experience was like for him.