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 Rector's Welcome
   Welcome to the website of St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts. In the fall of 2008, the Seminary will welcome, for the 124th year, men who are considering whether God is calling them to the priesthood...                 (more)


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09/04Opening Mass of the 2008 - 2009 Academic Year
08/26Move-In Day for Seminarians
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Saint John's Seminary

       In its deepest identity the seminary is called to be, in its own way, a continuation in the Church of the apostolic community gathered about Jesus, listening to his word, proceeding toward the Easter experience, awaiting the gift of the Spirit for the mission. Such an identity constitutes the normative ideal which stimulates the seminary in the many diverse forms and varied aspects which it assumes historically as a human institution, to find a concrete realization, faithful to the Gospel values from which it takes its inspiration and able to respond to the situations and needs of the times.
        - Pope John Paul II, Pastores Dabo Vobis #60

Saint John's Chapel

When it opened on 18 September 1884, Saint John's Seminary was served by a small temporary chapel-structure located where the Chapel now stands. Construction on the permanent building began in 1899. The then newly-organized architectural firm of Maginnis and Walsh proposed to complement the French provincial style of the Theology House, as Saint John's Hall was then known... (more)