How do seminarians practice the liturgy

[Episcopalian]

Do they have a “practice” chapel in seminary where they celebrate the Mass in it’s entirety to be graded by professors/priests?

Do they do bits and pieces privately on their own?

Or is their diaconate supposed to give them all the practice they need?

Or something else!

 

[SuscipeMeDomine]

My recently ordained friend had classes that included both lectures and practices.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

They do practice Masses. They’re observed by the teachers and given feedback. It’s sort of like moot court or mock trial in law school. One of our younger priests has talked in his homilies about the feedback he got on his practice Masses.

 

[Titivillus]

At the seminary we had a chapel with a dozen or so rather plain side altars. They were not (as many had supposed) for seminarians to practice saying Mass, but rather because it was built just prior to the reintroduction of concelebration by Vatican II.

Also a priest once told me about practice Confession classes, and “trick questions”, like when the practice penitent would confess things that were not actual sins.

 

[InThePew]

We had instruction in the mass (from a retired bishop as it happens) and were also expected to practise in our own time just using the seminary chapel (what’s called dry masses). Sometimes I just didn’t it own my own but tbh having someone else there made it easier - not just for the feedback but also for the responses! I’d skip the homily (especially when I was on my own ) but would include everything else (well not the distribution of communion for kind of obvious reasons). I’d also try and mix is up a little - so Sunday and weekday as well as working through the different options in the missal.