Sean, the seminarian gazelle, the Theotokos, the Josephinum (way cool!)

Any seminarian who sees something like this in the Pontifical Seminary Josephinum woods and immediately thinks of Mary, Mother of God, holding the Christ child, and runs in her direction, is really way cool.

From a recent comment on this blog that I thought was more appropriate in its own post:

Fr. Byers, I was walking in the woods today and took a picture of what looks like a statue of the Blessed Mother holding the Infant Jesus. I thought you would like this since being in the woods and all. The picture is on our seminarian blog for the Diocese of Gaylord. http://gaylordseminarians.blogspot.com/ >Sean the Gazelle

Sean is called “the gazelle” because of his all too sick, freakish football skills. If I remember rightly, he was given that appellation in high school, when, going deep for an impossibly long and overthrown Hail Mary pass, evaded, in mid-air, two tacklers trying to take him down from opposite directions, but who only succeeding in crashing into each other in mid-air, even while Sean caught the ball with but one finger.

I’m proud to say that he was my formation advising advisee while I was at the Josephinum just before starting up Holy Souls Hermitage.