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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St John Neumann
DESCRIPTION:THE PROPOSAL TO \nGO TO AMERICA \nFrom the autobiography of St John Neumann \n◊◊◊ \nOn the feast of All Saints\, 1831\, I began the study of theology… I studied \nSacred Scripture\, Hebrew and Church History… At the end of the first year of \ntheology I was one of the few who were to receive Tonsure and the four Minor \nOrders. This actually took place on July 21\, 1832. \nIn the second year of theology we had the New Testament in Latin and \nGreek together with Exegesis and Canon Law. What appealed to me most were \nthe letters of the Apostle\, St Paul\, which the professor knew how to explain very \nwell. About this time I began to read the reports of the Leopoldine Society\, \nespecially the letters of Father Baraga and other missionaries among the \nGermans in North America. This is how there arose in one of my fellow \nstudents\, Adalbert Schmidt\, and in myself on the occasion of a walk along the \nMoldau River\, the determination to devote ourselves to North America as soon \nas we acquired some experience after ordination. \nTwo or three of our fellow students\, whom we invited to join us\, marvelled \nat our decision\, but they did not want to promise anything. Obviously\, it was not \ntheir vocation. From that moment on my resolution was so strong and lively \nthat I could no longer think of anything else. \nWe had talks on how to carry out our project. We thought it would be \nbetter for me to try to obtain from the bishop the recently vacated foundation \nscholarship at the University of Prague for a theologian from the seminary. We \ndid this in the hope of easily learning French and English there because we \nthought that the knowledge of these languages was much more important than \nis actually the case. The bishop granted my request\, but I found myself very \nmuch disappointed. I had hardly gone to the French classes at the Clementinum \nfor a few [days or weeks] when an order came from the archbishop that no \nseminarian was to attend these classes. As for English\, I could learn even less \nbecause that language was not taught at the University then. \nMeanwhile\, the bishop of Philadelphia\, Fr. Francis Patrick Kenrick \nempowered Dr. Raess\, the rector of the Strassburg seminary to accept young \npriests or\, even better\, theologians for his diocese. The latter wrote to a very \nsaintly priest\, who was Vicar of the Budweis Cathedral\, about the possibility of \ngetting some of them from Bohemia. Through a special disposition of divine \nprovidence this turned out to be the one (Father Hermann) who happened to be \nthe confessor of my friend Adalbert Schmidt and knew about our proposal to go \nto America. \nAside from three or four or our fellow students and him\, no one knew \nabout this. He was very happy to discover in us the first two that he found ready \nto go to America. The request to Dr. Raess and our decision seemed to be signs \nthat his plan would be feasible. Since the bishop\, who was over eighty\, was sick\, \nand since\, for four or five months\, there was no prospect that he would hold an \nordination\, he was all in favor of the two of us being ready to take off as soon as \npossible.
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