Maynooth Open Day

I'm delighted to see that there was a decent turn out at Sunday's open day at the seminary in Maynooth.

About 80 men aged between 20 and 35 attended the Open Day at Maynooth last Sunday, Vocations Sunday.

The initiative which marked the close of the Year of Vocation, was the first of its kind for St Patrick’s College, and organisers were surprised and impressed at the numbers of young men who showed up to get an insight into what life is like in the seminary and as a priest.

The idea for the day, came from the seminarians, who were all present for the event.

After talks by the President of Maynooth, Mgr Hugh Connolly, and other members of the formation team on the four foundations of formation: spiritual, intellectual, pastoral and human, four seminarians from different diocese shared the stories of their own calls to the priesthood. The four are all at different stages of their training – from second year to already being a deacon.