After ordination to the diaconate, seminarians spend many weekends doing parish work and assisting the pastor in various pastoral, educational, and administrative tasks.
The Pastoral Year Internship, after the second year of Theology, is a year-long immersion in the parish. By living and working in a parish within the seminarian’s diocese, the seminarian begins to take on the identity of a spiritual father who collaborates and leads for the good of the Church.