(Bells ringing)
Welcome to St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary here in Dillwyn, Virginia.
My name is Samuel Fabula and I’m a Deacon here at the seminary.
I’m here today to give you a tour.
Behind me is the Administrative Building.
In the Administrative Building will be done all the secretarial work for the seminary,
as well as the parish functions.
In between the Administrative Building and the main body of the seminary will one day
be the Church.
Here, we have the first three bells of the seminary.
The first bell is dedicated to St. Vincent de Paul, the second to Mary and Joseph, and
the third one to St. Thomas Aquinas.
If you’ll follow me, we’ll go inside for the tour now.
This is the temporary chapel where the seminary comes to meet for the Divine Office throughout
the day – and Mass in the morning.
(Singing)
This is the Cloister of St. Joseph.
This way to the refectory.
This is the refectory.
Up at the front, we have the head table where all the professors sit, and the seminarians
take all their meals here.
During half of the meal, a reading is done from the podium.
(Reading by lector)
We’ll now go over to the Library.
Here we are on the second floor of the Library.
All of the trim and the bookshelves were made by the seminarians, brothers, and faithful.
We’ll now go upstairs to the dormitories.
We’re now in the cloistered section of the seminary.
No one is normally allowed up here.
We’ll go over now and see one of the cells.
Now we’ll go downstairs and see one of the classrooms.
This is the Theologians classroom – they’re having Dogma Class right now.
(Professor talking)
We have one more thing.
Just to wrap up the tour, we have here the icon of St. Joseph.
All the woodwork was handmade by one of our parishioners.
Thank you for joining us for the tour of St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary.
We look forward to seeing you here for Ordinations.
(Bells ringing)