Each seminarian must have a spiritual director chosen from among the priests on the full-time faculty. One faculty member is assigned as advisor to a seminarian. The advisor and seminarian meet monthly in order to monitor and evaluate the seminarian's various growth patterns toward ordained ministry. The advisor represents the seminarian to the faculty and the faculty normally communicates with a seminarian through his advisor. The advisor helps promote in a seminarian true integration of his spiritual, academic, pastoral, personal and social dimensions.
Seminarians alternate with faculty members in leading morning and evening prayer.
This opportunity provides the seminarian with experience as a leader of prayer, a primary responsibility of the priest. There are also courses in spirituality which provide a bridge into full-time ministry, e.g., the history of spirituality, the meaning of celibate chastity, spirituality of the diocesan priest. Second Year students take part in a special program of reflection on celibacy in the life of the priest. It consists of presentations on various dimensions of this question, followed by small group discussions. The Seminary always reserves the right to place on probation or to dismiss a seminarian when it considers him to be unsuitable for seminary life or for the priesthood.