2012/05/24 · 12:37
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Fully sick. Totally insane. Laughing out loud. Hah! ALL seminarians just gotta do this. Period.

Just click HERE.

Why didn’t they have that when I was a seminarian?!?!

I know three seminarians continuing on next year who, this summer, will be doing this.

This should be a mandatory for all seminarians in the USA. Every month.

The USCCB should put that in the 6th Edition of the Program for Priestly Formation.

Hah!

Of course, a bit of that goes on at the hermitage, but with chain saws and chains, jenny the jeep and all too stubborn trees. Plenty of mud during these rainy days.

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7 Responses to Fully sick. Totally insane. Laughing out loud. Hah! ALL seminarians just gotta do this. Period.

  1. Anita O.P.
    2012/05/24 at 12:46

    I saw a few women in there, but this is definitely a guy thing. Vive la difference!

  2. Uganda Youth Ministry Association
    2012/05/24 at 13:18

    :-) How does this tough mudder thing help the seminarians? Unless in there is a program to equip them on techniques of fighting the devil :-)

  3. Holy Souls Hermitage
    2012/05/24 at 14:36

    It all works together. By the way, the yellow strings hanging down are various voltages of electricity, with some at 10,000 volts.

  4. Infinite Grace
    2012/05/24 at 18:17

    Hubby did the Warrior Dash last year. A little bit tamer but not much more!

  5. Holy Souls Hermitage
    2012/05/24 at 19:28

    Very cool! Maybe he’s worked himself up to this now!

  6. pelerin
    2012/05/25 at 05:57

    The French Spiritan Missionary Priest, Mgr Prosper Augouard who became the frist Bishop of the Congo endured many hardships during his long period there. His letters home to his brother who was also a Priest were collected and published and reveal life ‘in Cannibal country’ during the late 19th century and early 20th century. I don’t know if his books were ever translated into English but they do make for fascinating reading.

    There was humour among the hardships too – his description of how to cook an elephant’s trunk is highly amusing and having to eat hippo steaks the size of umbrellas meant they had to have cast iron stomachs. To read his Office at the end of the day (no electricity then!) he fixed a candle on his head – if he nodded off he would soon know it!

    Crossing rivers had to be done by precarious rope bridges and Mgr Augouard commented once that lessons in acrobatics should perhaps be taught in the seminaries!

  7. Holy Souls Hermitage
    2012/05/25 at 06:16

    Good point, Pelerin. I bet that’s why Steven sees no need for it. He sees it every day! One of the seminarians I know who is going actually went through everything like that already in the military, minus the electric cords. Leave it to the Brits to come up with something like that!

    You can bet that there are recruiters for black ops checking out who can do what with total ease…

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