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Conception Fall Production
Conception Seminary College will present Dr. Experimentor and the League of Evil by Charlotte Nixon as its annual fall theater production this year. The production is scheduled for November 8-10, 2024. This one-of-a-kind comedy is a hysterical, action-packed tale of friendship, betrayal, and power. Dr. Experimentor, a mastermind supervillain, must fight to maintain his membership…
Forever Men of Conception
On Saturday, May 11, Conception Seminary College graduated three seminarians with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and two with a Bachelor of Philosophical and Theological Studies.Andrew and Sarah Swafford were the 2024 Commencement speakers. From Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, they are Catholic speakers, authors, teachers, and parents. “Remember that you have such a…
Conception Seminary College renews accreditation
Conception, Mo. — Conception Seminary College received a 10-year renewal of accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission on June 3, 2024. This continues the high standard of accreditation that the seminary has always maintained. HLC is an institutional accreditor recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation to accredit…
Conception Seminary College releases Spring 2024 Dean’s List
CONCEPTION, Mo. – The Office of the Registrar at Conception Seminary College, in Conception, Missouri, announced the students named to the Dean’s List for the 2024 spring semester. To be included on the Dean’s List, a student must be enrolled as a full-time student and earn a 3.70 GPA or higher on at least…
Seminary Retreats begin Lenten Journeys
Following Jesus Christ is an adventure, and some would call it the greatest adventure there is. Seminarians, like us all, need a break in the routine to be reminded of such truths and to step back and reflect on our lives with gratitude. Our typical seminary Days of Recollection usually occur once a month and…
Prioritizing Healing to Form Healthy Priest
Each fall semester, the Formation Staff facilitates the “Holy and Life-Giving Seminar” for all new seminarians (men in the Propaedeutic Stage) culminating in the spring with a Healing Retreat for the entire student body. The purpose of the seminar is to form new seminarians with foundations of Christian spirituality for a life of prayer. Fr.…
Discipleship Stage Key For Priests of Tomorrow
The publication of the sixth edition of the Program for Priestly Formation (PPF) occasioned a tectonic shift for seminaries. We now have four stages: Propaedeutic and Discipleship (college), Configuration (graduate school), and Vocational Synthesis. For us at Conception Seminary College, it meant a lot of work to begin the Propaedeutic Stage. It seems to be…
Conception Seminary College releases Fall 2023 Dean’s List
CONCEPTION, Mo. – The Office of the Registrar at Conception Seminary College, in Conception, Missouri, announced the students named to the Dean’s List for the 2023 fall semester. To be included on the Dean’s List, a student must be enrolled as a full-time student and earn a 3.70 GPA or higher on at least…
Modeling “fiat” in priestly formation
Fiat is Latin for “let it be done” according to Your will. In other words, “Yes, Lord.” Seminarians arrive at Conception Seminary College because they have intentionally chosen to give God their fiat, to say yes to His call. To say “Yes, Lord, I will follow your call to discern the priesthood and to…
Blessed by his Pastoral Presence
I was looking for a diocesan priest to serve at Conception Seminary College as a spiritual director to the seminarians. Several priests from my home diocese of Tulsa had recommended Msgr. Patrick Gaalaas. A few weeks later, when I was visiting my family on vacation, my mother handed me a copy of the Eastern Oklahoma…