St Thomas Aquinas Seminary Requirements

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What is the cost to enter or yearly for st Thomas Aquinas seminary in Virginia? Whats are some of the requirements?
 
Why are you asking us about the SSPX seminary’s requirements and costs instead of emailing the seminary directly?
 
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True, sorry about that. I just wanted to see if anyone knows…
 
You ought to consider Our Lady of Guadalupe in Nebraska also:

http://www.fsspolgs.org

The direction you’ve been going considering your recent posts is, quite frankly, worrisome.
 
Why? I’m very young and so I still have a lot of curiosity and no spiritual director yet. So I’m sorry if I did all that. I’m still being educated.
 
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Why? I’m very young and so I still have a lot of curiosity and no spiritual director yet. So I’m sorry if I did all that. I’m still being educated.
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It’s great that you want to administer the Sacraments in the EF. But, and this is only my impression, what concerns me is your drawing a difference with “Novus Ordo priests”. There are no Novus Ordo priests nor Novus Ordo Sacraments. The efficacy of the Sacraments come from God, not the (valid) rite they were celebrated in. A blessing from a priest ordained in the EF does not impart more grace on it than a priest ordained in the OF. As much as I love the EF and would like the OF to use more of the elements that the EF uses, I feel that the attitude of the superiority of the EF over the OF can swing to such an extreme that it is basically revamped Donatism. I’m not saying that, for example, wanting to bring back exorcised salt back to the water used in baptism is Donatist. I’m saying there seems to be this attitude that somehow my baptism in the OF is lesser than that of the EF. Rites are not Sacraments. If you get ordained in the OF, you’ll still be able to administer Sacraments in the EF.

Now, all that being said, there are perfectly fine groups like the FSSP whose standing with Rome is not questioned, and who freely celebrate the EF. The SSPX has a history of disobedience. It has splits amongst itself (The SSPX Resistance and the SSPV) because they basically believe the SSPX hasn’t “gone far enough”. The FSSP, as far as I’m aware, have never had such issues, though they split off from the SSPX after Archbishop Lefevre’s illicit ordinations. If you’re interested in celebrating the EF Sacraments, there are groups that do not have the questionable status the SSPX does.

This was a bit of a word vomit, but lately I’ve been feeling burned out by Traditionalists (not Traditionalism). I feel many have lost the forest for the trees: less promoting the beauties of the EF and old traditions, and more being angry at Pope Francis (calling him “Bergoglio” or “Papa Frank”), Benevacantism and Sedevacantistism, really, just a whole lot of anger in general, nor do I believe that God will condemn millions of Catholics because they didn’t interpret a 500 year old Papal Bull (Quo Primium) correctly. We shouldn’t be a happy-clappy Church, but I can’t believe this near constant anger is right either. And I personally find the SSPX types to be more guilty of this than the FSSP.

I just want my beautiful traditions.

Anyway, rant over. I hope it makes sense.
 
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That seminary belongs to the SSPX. Not many people here are going to help you with this.
 
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