New building needed to house growing numbers of future priests Groundbreaking Nov. 2 at 88-year-old Mt. Washington campus By Colleen Kammer (from our print edition) Groundbreaking ceremonies for a major expansion of Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West will take place Nov. 2 at the Mount Washington institution as …

Eastertide Vespers, sung by the Athenaeum Chorale and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary Schola, will be held in the Athenaeum’s Italian Romanesque-style Chapel of St. Gregory the Great. Sung Vesper liturgy includes choral repertoire from a variety of periods and traditions. All are welcome to this service and concert.

All are invited to pray with the seminarians in the Chapel of St. Gregory the Great in an event featuring Adoration and music. Father Jason Williams will lead. The parochial vicar at St. Cecilia, St. Margaret-St. John and St. Anthony, Father Williams was ordained in 2016 after a six-year career in …

Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West invites men college age and older who are discerning a vocation to a free, “come and see” weekend Marcy 17-18. Find out what seminary life is like, talk to seminarians and professors, explore whether you are called to the priesthood. Mount St. Mary’s …

Eight men were accepted by Archbishop of Cincinnati Dennis M. Schnurr as candidates for Holy Orders in a ceremony at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary  Dec. 8. The men publically declared their commitment to a program of formation for service to God and to the Catholic Church as ordained ministers on …

Mount St. Mary’s Seminary Before entering the seminary, Jason Williams was part of the team that ran and maintained the nuclear reactor on a fast attack submarine. “Even though all of the world looks the same from behind a control panel, it was still fascinating work. Yet as much as I …

Press Release The Archdiocese of Cincinnati will hold a Holy Hour for Vocations on Wednesday, Nov. 4 from 7 to 8 p.m. at more than 20 parishes across the archdiocese. Even more parishes will open their doors for Holy Hours on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of the same week. A …

Staff Report In the Book of Proverbs one reads, “Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.” Sixth grade students from Guardian Angels Catholic School in Mt. Washington committed a day of hard work to clearing the heavily-wooded grounds at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West/The …

By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service  VATICAN CITY — Five cardinals dedicated a new wing of the U.S. seminary in Rome, its first major addition in more than 60 years. Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who as secretary of state is considered the highest Vatican official under the pope, led …

By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph Two men were ordained priests for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati this year. Two were ordained last year as well, but going forward the numbers are expected to spike. Pending 100 percent retention, four men are scheduled to be ordained in 2015 from the local …