Training at the seminary is structured around three stages that aim to develop our students so they may become priests according to Christ’s Heart

The Propaedeutic Stage is a year of vocational discernment suggestive of the New Ratio, and with the purpose of offering the seminarians a chance to penetrate in depth the Call they have received from the Lord, the Attitudes they should assume as disciples of Christ, and the required Bases for the comprehensive formation needed for exercising the priestly ministry in the United States.

The aim of the Philosophical Stage is for the seminarian to consolidate his choice for the priesthood through community living and integration of a human, and Christian, personality; by developing and strengthening his maturity in the Faith; by knowing and accepting himself and his capacity for dialogue regarding Faith in the cultural diversity of the United States.

The purpose of the Theological Stage is for seminarians to consolidate a fundamental option that allows them to identify with Christ the Good Shepherd by assuming His criteria, attitudes and lifestyle, and thereby becoming qualified to practice the priestly ministry in the Church as men of communion and committed pastors.