This is an excerpt from the full interview on The Life of a Priest, a podcast available in the Tabella Catholic App.
Father Manny Alvarez is the pastor of the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables, Florida. In this excerpt he shares his views on seminary and what it must be for men who are aspiring to become priests.
Seminary is not meant to be easy. We want the men to be ordained priest to go through the ring, to experience that crisis of faith. I remember a spiritual director saying: “Do you think God put you through seven years of seminary and rigorous formation to pull the rug out from you now?”
