St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary

09/01/2026

Classes are back in session at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary, and our men returned with full hearts.

Summer took them out into the life of the Church. Some served in parish assignments, walking alongside pastors and parishioners. Some spent their days with young people at summer camps. Others traveled on mission, bringing the Gospel to communities far from home.

They came back tired and joyful, which is usually a sign that the summer was well spent.

Now they begin a new year of study, prayer, and formation, preparing to serve as priests for the Church.

Please keep our seminarians in your prayers as this year begins.

08/31/2026

Today we were blessed by someone sending us this wonderful article, which we'd like to share with you!

The Catholic Health Association of the United States has a story this week on the chaplaincy practicum that brings our men from the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine (official) to Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside in Jacksonville. They begin by shadowing the hospital's chaplains, and in time they are visiting patients, families, and staff on their own, and assisting with sacramental ministry throughout the hospital.

Fr. Justino Moreno, who completed the program as a seminarian here and was ordained for St. Augustine, says those two months reached every dimension of his formation: human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral. Jacob Crowell and George Gilbert finished their own shadowing this summer, and George described "falling in love with the ministry" of healthcare chaplaincy.

Please keep our men in your prayers as they learn to carry Christ to the sick.

The future priests shadow hospital chaplains, building skills, knowledge and connections.

08/27/2026

This week SVDP has had the pleasure of hosting a group including representatives from the Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity, as well as members of the Faith and Order Commission, of the World Council of Churches which is drafting the materials for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2028. Within this group Catholic and protestant Christians from Cuba, including members of the Seminario Evangelico Teologia and the Catholic churches of Matanzas, Cuba.

Very Rev. Alfredo Hernandez, Rector-President of SVDP said: “It has been a privilege for St Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary to host the international team charged with preparing materials for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2028. Our bilingual seminary has been an appropriate place to welcome a group that was originally scheduled to meet in Cuba. As a Cuban American myself, it has been a particular joy to welcome the members of the Cuban delegation, Catholic and Protestant, all of them from my parents’ home province of Matanzas. When January 2028 comes around, we will have a particular impetus to devote ourselves to praying with the theme: ‘You give them something to eat.’”

A team from Cuba has joined an international editing team to begin drafting the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity materials for 2028. The resources are being prepared jointly with Catholic and Protestant Christians from Cuba, including the staff and students of the Seminario Evangélico de Teologí...

08/26/2026

Six years of formation conferences to the men of this house are now published.

Our Rector and President, Fr. Alfredo Hernandez , has published Fiat: Forming Faithful and Fruitful Priests with En Route Books and Media. Released August 9, it gathers the conferences he has given here at SVDP on holiness, preaching, leadership, celibacy, hope, fraternity, and pastoral charity.

The foreword is fittingly written by the now Bishop David Toups of Catholic Diocese of Beaumont, who served as rector-president at SVDP alongside Fr. Alfredo who held various positions, including Academic Dean, under Bishop Toups' tenure.

The book is written for seminarians and for priests already in the field, carrying within much wisdom and reflection for the faithful who support their shepherds' ministry. Endorsements include messages from Bishop Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez of the Diocese of Palm Beach, Bishop Felipe Estévez and others.

Fr. Hernández holds an STL in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and a PhD in Pastoral Studies from North-West University, and has served as President-Rector at SVDP since 2020.

Available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook: https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/fiat/

Congratulations, Father.

08/25/2026

Final days of Make-A-Will Month.

A will is where your values are written down. Since 1963 this seminary has formed more than 700 priests for dioceses across the Southeast, and that work continued because people before us planned for it. Today there are 130 or more men in formation here, sent by 13 dioceses.

You do not have to include the seminary to use this tool, and we mean that. Write your will because your family deserves the clarity, and because putting your faith in writing is a good and holy thing to do.

https://mycatholicwill.com/svdp

08/25/2026

Wednesday Mass is back. Beginning this Wednesday, August 26, our 12:15 p.m. Masses resume for the new semester. Come pray with our seminarians, faculty, and staff as another year of formation gets underway. All are welcome, and we hope to see you there!

08/24/2026

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08/24/2026

Opening Academic Exercises (Convivium Academicum)
St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary
Monday, August 24, 2026 | 7:30 PM ET

Tonight our seminary community formally opens the 2026-2027 academic year. Following the Opening Mass and community dinner, faculty, seminarians, and guests gather for the Convivium
Academicum, our traditional academic convocation, with remarks from Dr. Rodney Howsare, Ph.D. Professor of Systematic Theology.

A new year of formation begins in the classroom, the chapel, and the parishes where our men serve. Please pray for our seminarians as they take up their studies again.

ABOUT ST. VINCENT DE PAUL REGIONAL SEMINARY
Founded in 1963 and owned by the seven dioceses of the Province of Florida, St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary is the only bilingual Roman Catholic theologate in the southeastern United
States. More than 700 priests have been formed here. Today over 130 men from 13 dioceses are in formation on our Boynton Beach campus, preparing to serve parishes across the Southeast for a lifetime.

Learn more: https://svdp.edu

SUPPORT THE FORMATION OF OUR FUTURE PRIESTS
Every seminarian you see tonight is here because of the generosity of people who believe the Church of the Southeast deserves holy, well formed priests. If tonight's celebration moves you, please consider making a gift toward their formation.

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08/22/2026

Eight days after the Assumption, the Church honors Mary as Queen of Heaven.

We all are invited to be sons and daughters of so loving a Queen and mother. Seminarians are especially invited to a deep devotion to our blessed mother as they seek to be conformed to the likeness of her son Jesus. A priest who belongs to Mary belongs all the more to her Son.

Mary, Queen of Heaven, pray for our seminarians.

You can read Pops Pius XII's encyclical proclaiming the queenship of Mary here: https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius12/p12caeli.htm

08/21/2026

Today the Church celebrates the memorial of Saint Pius X (1835– 1914). He is often named as the patron saint of the poor, pilgrims, and first communicants.

During his Pontificate, he worked much for the renewal of the priesthood and longed for holy priests to serve God's people. One beautiful exhortation of his on the need for priestly sanctity is Haerent Animo, "Your sanctification has, indeed, first place in our thoughts and in our cares; therefore, with our eyes raised to heaven, we frequently pray for the whole clergy, repeating the words of Christ, our Lord: Holy Father . . . sanctify them."

As a new year of formation begins, we ask his intercession for every man entering these halls to discern and prepare for the priesthood. May they be given generous hearts, steady perseverance, and a deep love for Christ and His Church.

Saint Pius X, patron of seminarians, pray for our men.

Haerent Animo Full Text: https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius10/p10haer.htm