{"id":1427,"date":"2023-05-23T14:47:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T19:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usml.edu\/?page_id=1427"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T20:47:36","slug":"meet-the-rector-president","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/usml.edu\/es\/meet-the-rector-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Rector-President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"min-height:400px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1432\" height=\"828\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1584\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/usml.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4110-copy.jpg\" style=\"object-position:51% 42%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"51% 42%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usml.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4110-copy.jpg 1432w, 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class=\"breadcrumb_last\" aria-current=\"page\">Meet the Rector-President<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meet the Rector\/President<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/usml.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mund-Sem-030416-002-Art-3-e1464756063482-486x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2136\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usml.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mund-Sem-030416-002-Art-3-e1464756063482-486x600-1.jpg 486w, https:\/\/usml.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mund-Sem-030416-002-Art-3-e1464756063482-486x600-1-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>My name is Fr. John Kartje and I am the Rector\/President of Mundelein Seminary\/University of Saint Mary of&nbsp;the Lake. Our mission at USML&nbsp;is simply stated but profoundly engaging: we form parish priests who&nbsp;are prepared and excited to bring others to Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the words of the Second Vatican Council, a seminary&nbsp;should function as the heart of the diocese it serves. It provides a bridge between the individual parishes, led by&nbsp;their parish priests, and the entire diocesan community, led by its bishop. Furthermore, a diocesan priest himself&nbsp;should serve as a bridge between his people and the Lord, helping them to enrich their own spiritual journeys. This&nbsp;triad of \u201cheart,\u201d \u201cbridge,\u201d and \u201cparish priest\u201d beautifully captures both the reason that Mundelein Seminary exists&nbsp;and the mission the Holy Spirit impels us to pursue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mundelein is home to over two hundred seminarians&nbsp;from nearly forty dioceses from across the country and around the world. But what they all have in common is&nbsp;that they are preparing to serve a specific community that is centered on a local Church in obedience to their&nbsp;bishop. In other words, every man at Mundelein Seminary has a heart that is burning to serve as a parish priest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the modern Church is dynamically changing. The parish of today can be vastly different from that of a generation&nbsp;or even a decade ago. As smaller parishes are consolidated into single parishes of much larger extent, as social media&nbsp;becomes increasingly more pervasive, as more and more Catholics are raised without basic catechesis, and as the&nbsp;pressures of a secular culture multiply moral challenges, a parish priest needs to be a man who is intellectually&nbsp;well-grounded in the Truth. He must be socially capable of not only sending a tweet but also personally interacting&nbsp;with people from all walks of life and in every conceivable pastoral situation. Above all, he must be a man of&nbsp;deep interior prayer. At Mundelein, our academic and formation teams integrate their missions into a common&nbsp;goal of forming priests with precisely these qualities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you discern your own vocation, continually ask&nbsp;the Holy Spirit for guidance and do please keep us at Mundelein Seminary in your prayers. My prayer for you&nbsp;is that this booklet may help open your heart to hear more clearly the Spirit\u2019s voice. The seminarians, priests&nbsp;and dedicated lay women and men you encounter in these pages are all driven by a single mission.&nbsp;Together with you in Christ, we are Mundelein. We form parish priests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yours in the Heart of Christ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fr. John Kartje<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rector\/President<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Rector\/President My name is Fr. John Kartje and I am the Rector\/President of Mundelein Seminary\/University of Saint Mary of&nbsp;the Lake. 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