“Due to the decreasing number of candidates for the priesthood, after numerous consultations, I decided that our seminar will be moved to Warsaw from the next academic year. It was a very difficult decision, but we had to face this challenge realistically so that our small group of seminarians could find the best environment and conditions for development and formation,” the bishop wrote in the letter. He also expressed hope for “new vocations to the priestly service”. He also called for prayer.
Because we need our priests
he said.
In September this year, 6 people started their education in Łowicz. Now they will continue it in the capital, at the Major Metropolitan Seminary.
End of another seminar? The decision was made
“We want to continue to support our seminarians with prayer, as well as material donations, so that, as it has been so far, we will provide them with all the facilities needed for education and formation. could still serve our diocese,” the priest wrote. Once again he expressed his hope, this time for the “return of seminarians” to the parish in Łowicz.
The fact that we are dealing with a crisis of vocations in the Catholic Church has been talked about for several years. This year, a similar fate befell the seminars in Legnica, Świdnica and Bydgoszcz, according to Onet. The seminary in Łowicz has been in existence since 1994, and although it had to move to Warsaw due to little interest, there is no talk of closing it completely.
The Łowicz seminar will maintain its status, so it should be noted that it is moved, not closed. Further formation of our seminarians will take place in conjunction with the community of the Higher Metropolitan Seminary in Warsaw
– quotes the rector of the Higher School of Social Sciences in Łowicz, Father Piotr Kaczmarek, the Onet portal.
Former priest comments. “Wearing a cassock is no longer a way to live affluently”
He commented on the progressing crisis of vocations and the transfer of the seminar in Łowicz
Putting on a cassock is no longer a way to live affluently. It is associated with financial instability, because the number of faithful decreases, and already some parishes are barely making ends meet. Being a priest is no longer a ticket to a better world
he tells the portal.
Sources: Gazeta Wyborcza/Natemat.pl/wp.pl/Interia.pl/Onet.pl
Source: Gazeta
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