Rev. José I. Lavastida

President's Letter

Dear visitor to our website:

As we begin this summer time we are especially mindful of all of our seminarians during their pastoral ministry. We ask you to pray for them, as we do every day, so that their summer ministry experiences may be a very fruitful and blessed ones!

Notre Dame Seminary welcomes you to the pages, pictures, and information that are at the tip of your hand through the magic of the internet! We thank you for visiting our site, and hope that you can find useful information and inspiration to live a life closer to God.

Much has been going on lately at the Seminary. We had a beautiful graduation and end of the academic year. We just finished a wonderful Faith and Reason Seminar in which several of our faculty members participated. It was well attended, and even one or two of our seminarians had a chance to visit the group and see what we were up to!

There have been several ordinations already, where we can see the culmination of so many years of studies and dedication for our seminarians, now ordained to the diaconate or the priesthood. All the ordinations, and the ones still to come, were great occasions of prayer and communion with the dioceses and communities that support us.

We are beginning to plan for our great Gala and Auction 2010 which will take place on October 30, 2010. There is already a link in these pages to take you to the work of this Gala and to offer you the opportunity to collaborate with us. Visit the Gala site!!!

Our Fall 2010 Calendar is also already posted on this website. We look forward to this new beginning in August, but for now we also wish that all of you are having a unique and renewing summer in the Lord!

As you know, Notre Dame Seminary is a theologate and graduate school of theology whose main purpose is to form men to the ministerial priesthood of Jesus Christ. We also have lay people who benefit from our programs and dedicate themselves to receive a degree in Sacred Theology.

We have been serving the Gulf South since 1923, and through this website you will have access to much of our history and to the contribution of our students to the propagation of the Kingdom of God in this world.

We ask you for your prayers, your support, and any other contribution you feel could help us spread the good news that God is alive in our midst through his continued call to serve Him through the holy priesthood of Jesus Christ the High Priest.

May Mary, the Immaculate Mother of Christ, and our mother, continue to inspire you to follow the ways of her Son, who is Lord for ever and ever. Amen.


Pax Christi,

Fr. José I. Lavastida, S.T.D.
President Rector