Wimmer Wednesday “If, however, you feel the call within you, you will not allow yourselves to be deterred by obstacles from following this impulse, because the greater the sacrifice, the greater the reward. We will be able to say to Our Lord with Peter, ‘Behold we have left everything and Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday “You must be determined to become religious not only to be united to Christ more closely and follow Him more faithfully, but, if necessary, to do more for Him, to suffer for Him, and not by any means to go with the intention of becoming priests more easily Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday “My road can be made difficult but cannot be blocked. I can be held back and slowed down but not stopped. I go my way because I firmly believe that God wills it. He who has removed so many difficulties already will also remove the others that I Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday “…The Benedictines are men of stability; they are not wandering monks; they acquire lands and bring them under cultivation; they become thoroughly affiliated to the country and people to which they belong, and they receive their recruits from the district in which they have established themselves.“The Benedictine Order Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday “For a long time I have given much and even daily thought to this journey of mine. I understand all the difficulties: local, physical, and moral. I have also often considered that it would be presumptuous to think of forcing oneself on God as if one had a Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday “People plant trees although they are certain that the fruit will benefit only the next generation. Should we think only of today and tomorrow? The Lord has provided for our needs so wonderfully and so quickly, should we not confide in Him still more? Must we measure everything Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday “I cannot discard the thought that everyone who feels drawn towards this vocation has the obligation of dedicating himself to the missionary life. I sincerely believe that we religious priests are bound to carry out such work more strictly than the secular clergy, that it is a disgrace Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday “…I should be a light placed on a lamp stand, so that all in the house may see; but if the light itself is darkness, how can it shine? I should be the salt of the earth that prevents decay wherever applied. I should not weaken. I am Read more…
I entered Saint Vincent Seminary in September 1946. This was not my first acquaintance with Benedictine monks. I grew up on the North Side of Pittsburgh and the first priests I really knew were the Benedictines who staffed Saint Mary’s Parish on the North Side. It was in that parish Read more…
Saint Vincent is situated on land that was deeded to John Fraser of Bedford in 1766, shortly after the French and Indian War. This land was soon to be called the Sportsman’s Hall Tract because it was used for hunting. In 1790 Father Theodore Brouwers, a Franciscan friar, purchased the Read more…