LIFE OF A SEMINARIAN:
Human Formation

SOCIAL

The social formation of every seminarian is important to the overall growth of the seminarian. Holy Trinity Seminary provides opportunities in this area through community living, dinners and diocesan social events, and interaction in campus activities.

environment in which seminarians are challenged and supported in the important issues of human formation.

For example, through assigned house jobs and a weekly, communal work order, they learn to think of the seminary as their "house" and to accept responsibility for its maintenance. Community life, as well as the whole formation program, promotes a balance between structure and order on the one hand, freedom and personal responsibility on the other.

Seminarians share in community meals, they are assigned an assortment of daily jobs and each Seminarian shares in the on-going maintenance of the building and upkeep of the beautiful surrounding property.

Seminarians enjoy all kinds of recreational activities and sports. The campus is conveniently located, between Dallas and Fort Worth, providing opportunity for social and cultural enrichment at area museums, the symphony, ballet and theater

as well as major sporting events such as DallasCowboys Football, Mavericks Basketball, Stars Hockey, and the Superbowl.

The Seminary Library is available for study or spiritual reading or study throughout the day and will soon be updated with additional resources.

In Pastores Dabo Vobis, Pope John Paul II gives two reasons for highlighting human formation (par.43). On the one hand, the priest is a "living image" of Jesus, and so the "human perfection which shines forth in the incarnate Son of God" should be evident in the priest as well. On the other hand, the priest's ministry is directed to his fellow human beings, and he will be effective only to the degree that his own humanity serves as a bridge between God and human beings. The priest must be "humanly as credible and acceptable as possible."