Traditional orders/seminaries

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Does anyone know a good list of the orders (in full communion with Rome) which celebrate the traditional latin mass? I understand that one doesn’t simply choose a seminary like college, yet I am interested to see what orders there are which train priests and offer the TLM.

On a related note, where do those studying for the priesthood at, for instance, Clear Creek Monastery, or the Wyoming Carmelite monastery, etc. study for the priesthood/ how does that work?

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Many of the religious orders have universities and/or seminaries where their future deacons and priests study. Some are being sent to another country or countries for a period of their studies. A lot of religious orders have their seminarians study for some time in Rome as there are lots of seminaries there.
 
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On a related note, where do those studying for the priesthood at, for instance, Clear Creek Monastery, or the Wyoming Carmelite monastery, etc. study for the priesthood/ how does that work?
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For Benedictines, like Clear Creek, quite often, abroad. Sometimes in house for at least part of the training if they have qualified professors among the monks. At our abbey, our most recently ordained priest (last summer), spent three years at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Several of our priests have studied at Sant’ Anselmo in Rome. They may also attend diocesan seminaries, or even secular universities with theology programs. We had one of our transitional deacons receive part of his training from a retired philosophy professor who is also an oblate who would come to the monastery for a week at a time and teach.

It really varies, and depends on local and regional resources, and the preferred specialty of the candidate, e.g. theology, liturgy, exegesis, etc.
 
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Thank you so much for offering this information!

I am very interested in Clear Creek. I have an 8 year service obligation to the Army, but am interested in fulfilling that as an Army Chaplain, in which case the Army would let me go to seminary, after which I would owe them only a few years service (3 or 5) as a chaplain.

Do you think it possible that clear creek would allow me to enter, go to the seminary of their choosing, serve the required few years as military chaplain, and then come back to the monastery?

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Unfortunately I rather doubt it. Monasteries require that you free yourself of all your obligations, financial or otherwise, before entering. However they do admit as monks men who are already priests, and are still younger than their upper age limit (varies by monastery, but at ours, it is 40), so your best bet would be to study for the priesthood, work off your obligation as a chaplain, and then ask to enter.
 
Sir, thank you very much, that helps a lot!
How would you personally recommend going about trying to enter seminary. I understand that usually one simply applies with their diocese and then goes to the seminary chosen by the Bishop. However, I am very interested in going to the most ‘traditional’ seminary as possible. I fear the formation at most seminaries. Would you recommend moving to a particular diocese? Are there other courses of action that you might recommend? Thank you very much, sir, for your very generous and charitable help.

God bless you.
 
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I fear the formation at most seminaries.
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While some seminaries are certainly better than others, one thing is pretty much universally true: seminaries as a whole are much, much better than they were 30-40 years ago. Or even 20 years ago, for that matter. As a seminarian and someone who knows a lot of priests, I can assure you of that.
 
That I can’t be of much help with.

I would like to add though, if you want to go into a monastery later and become a diocesan priest first, you will need permission of your bishop to become a monk. Benedictines don’t like to be accused of poaching.

So you should probably be up front with everyone on your plans. Thinking about it, ISTM your best plan is to work off your obligations first. Get in touch with the monastery now though, explain your situation, and express an interest in joining (be prepared to be refused several times first… it’s in the Rule). They might give you general orientations on how to go about it and maybe even some courses they think you should study (theology, liturgy, etc.). Benedictines are, as a rule, very patient, and they might like to see that quality in you as well. And always remember you don’t choose the community, they choose you. You will enter first as a postulant, then make temporary vows, then permanent vows. The community gets to vote on whether to accept you before you can make vows.

Good luck!
 
Thank you so much, you’ve helped me tremendously. God bless you.
 
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