职业
请求我们的主赐给我们更圣洁的祭司、执事和更圣洁的男男女女. 愿他们受到耶稣基督的启发, 由我们的信仰团体支持, and respond generously to God’s gift of a vocation.
以下是来自STMA毕业生追随基督的呼召而投身教区或宗教使命的引述.
“Looking back upon my time in high school at St. 托马斯•莫尔学院, 我常常惊讶于神如何在我不知道他帮助的情况下塑造我,引导我. 那时的生活似乎很平常, 我甚至想,要是去一所更大的学校,有更多的人,那就更好了, but God was using everything I had to teach me and to help me discern. 我已经知道,辨别常常是这样发生的:我们带着一个特定的目标或方向,尽我们最大的能力跟随上帝, 我们也相信神能够并且确实使用我们一路上的一切,将我们引向他的计划, even if we did not see it as His plan at the time. When we get to that moment for which we were discerning, we will look back and we will give thanks to God, because He had us in mind the whole time."
Fr. 约翰凯恩
St. 帕多瓦教区的安东尼, 南部松树,数控
2007级
“在STMA的时候,我的同学们挑战我,让我把天主教信仰当作自己的信仰. Their challenge helped me to develop my own personal relationship with God. 正是从这种与上帝的个人关系中,我开始听到他邀请我成为一名牧师. 这个经历告诉我,神利用我们生命中的人对我们说话,邀请我们跟随他."
Fr. 迈克尔Schuetz
天主教慈母会, 华盛顿,数控
2008级
“巨大的支持 & consistent prayers of the faculty, staff, and the students of St. 托马斯莫尔学院给了我空间和自由,让我在整个高中都能领会上帝的旨意, ultimately leading me to enter the seminary after graduation. 我作为神学院学生和追求这一召唤成为祭司的岁月是最快乐的, 和平, 和我生命中充满优雅的岁月. 我感谢上帝赋予我这一使命,我祈祷更多的人能敞开心扉倾听上帝的召唤,勇敢地响应这一召唤."
约翰·德·古兹曼执事
Seminarian for the Diocese of Raleigh
2014级
"Being immersed into the fervently catholic community of STMA 的朋友和同学们也支持我活出信仰的美好. It was at STMA that I fell in love with Jesus, was first attracted to the priesthood, 开始了我的洞察力. STMA started the work of formation in me, a formation that I continue today as I pursue Christ’s call for my life."
罗伯特·雷恩
Seminarian for the Diocese of Raleigh
2016级
“就像圣. 约翰·亨利, I know that the Lord has given me some definite purpose in life, 他创造我并不是没有意义的. 在我作为一名牧师的生活中,我愿意成为链条中的一环,成为人与人之间的纽带, ready to do the good He wills on earth".
哥哥狮子座Dornan
演讲的圣. 菲利普·内里
2014级
“我现在想到的与我的职业有关的画面是彼得在水上行走. 我唯一的任务, my only concern should be to keep my eyes fixed on Jesus and, 当他说要来找他的时候, 我来. My tasks are simple- to focus on Him and walk. He is the one who can take my little gift, my obedience, and make something out of it. I could only live this life if He gave me what I need to live it. That dependence has to be total but it's exciting that way, and He often surprises me with where He tells me to go for Him. I would only be able to do it out of love."
童子耶稣的米利暗修女
世界传教士会
2009级