I hate to say this as a LSU fan but maybe he should encourage it!!
Ok the good via Aggie Catholic
Because we should shout the good news from the mountaintop - here is an update on Aggie Vocations.
As of today, August 18, 2009, here are the numbers:
*Current Aggie priests/permanent religious = 128
*Current Aggies in seminary / religious formation = 42
*# of Aggies who entered seminary or religious formation:
2009 = 8
2008 = 7
2007 = 8
2006 = 14 (record number)
*For the last 12 years - average number of Aggies per year entering seminary/formation = 8.17
*2009 ordinations = 3 priests + 1 transitional deacon
*2009 religious = 2 final vows + 1 first vows + 1 entering novitiate
These numbers have translated into helping many orders and dioceses around the country. For instance:
The Austin diocese, one of the biggest pipelines from Aggieland, has a record number of seminarians for this fall = 46 (a record number for the third year in a row)!
The New Orleans province of Jesuits who has about a dozen Aggies.
5 Aggie in the Nashville Dominican sisters.
The only "vocations crisis" we have is getting all of the vocations directors in front of our students.
Gig 'em Aggie Catholic Vocations!
Posted by Marcel at 2:54 PM
Why in the world is not every Bishop sending people down to Aggie Land to figure out what they are doing right!!!
Louisiana Catholics can you imagine if LSU, McNEESE, and ULL were doing this? Vocation crisis what vocation crisis!!!
People need to start making their Bishops answer some questions. This type of information makes me both want to dance on the clouds and then at the same time gets me sort of POED.
THE GOOD NEWS is the new Archbishop of New Orleans is from Austin. Perhaps he can give a reverent kick in the rear end to some Bishops around here and get them to start taking notice.
Ok the good via Aggie Catholic
Because we should shout the good news from the mountaintop - here is an update on Aggie Vocations.
As of today, August 18, 2009, here are the numbers:
*Current Aggie priests/permanent religious = 128
*Current Aggies in seminary / religious formation = 42
*# of Aggies who entered seminary or religious formation:
2009 = 8
2008 = 7
2007 = 8
2006 = 14 (record number)
*For the last 12 years - average number of Aggies per year entering seminary/formation = 8.17
*2009 ordinations = 3 priests + 1 transitional deacon
*2009 religious = 2 final vows + 1 first vows + 1 entering novitiate
These numbers have translated into helping many orders and dioceses around the country. For instance:
The Austin diocese, one of the biggest pipelines from Aggieland, has a record number of seminarians for this fall = 46 (a record number for the third year in a row)!
The New Orleans province of Jesuits who has about a dozen Aggies.
5 Aggie in the Nashville Dominican sisters.
The only "vocations crisis" we have is getting all of the vocations directors in front of our students.
Gig 'em Aggie Catholic Vocations!
Posted by Marcel at 2:54 PM
Why in the world is not every Bishop sending people down to Aggie Land to figure out what they are doing right!!!
Louisiana Catholics can you imagine if LSU, McNEESE, and ULL were doing this? Vocation crisis what vocation crisis!!!
People need to start making their Bishops answer some questions. This type of information makes me both want to dance on the clouds and then at the same time gets me sort of POED.
THE GOOD NEWS is the new Archbishop of New Orleans is from Austin. Perhaps he can give a reverent kick in the rear end to some Bishops around here and get them to start taking notice.
2 comments:
as a ULL student, i can see that conditions are not ideal at Catholic Student Centers in Louisiana ... but there is an active life there if you look for it. All of the people I know from Our Lady of Wisdom (our Newman Center, here) are strongly devout Catholics and I know one seminarian who was at ULL for philosophy and was quite a prominent figure at the Newman Center past couple of years. :)
Granted, we really can't come close to how awesome Texas A&M's Catholic life is ... and I really think LSU's Catholic population is suffering (whether they know it or not) largely due to liturgical and doctrinal mediocrity. :)
Thanks!! Listen years ago I was Prez of Louisiana Catholic Students. I know the love of the faith of ULL students. I am just mourning that we dont have a program that get vocations in all this. Thats my point.When I was in college I would go down to ULL(at that time USL) and amazed at the faith. Heck UUL should get what gets A @ M does.
I am aware that people of the A @ M crowd came to talk to the Ull crowd(maybe at the LCCS conference_ SO I ahve hope
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