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	<title>Thomas Pringle</title>
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		<title>VAW This Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This upcoming weekend, the seminary community will welcome 72 guests from all seven dioceses of Florida to the spring version of Vocation Awareness Weekend. The seminarians have all been busy the last few days getting everything prepared to make the weekend as prayerful and inspiring for the guests.
As one of the seminarians responsible for music [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/03/vaw-this-weekend/</link>
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		<title>On Retreat&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good afternoon to everyone!! Yesterday afternoon, my fellow seminarians and I returned to St. John Vianney College Seminary after a much needed mid-semester break. Though the break was shorter than our normal breaks, it was very relaxing, allowing me to catch up on some rest. During the break, most of my time was spent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/02/on-retreat/</link>
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		<title>In These Days of Lenten Journey&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Today, Ash Wednesday, we begin the Lenten path that lasts forty days and which leads us to the joy of the Lord&#8217;s Easter.&#8221;  (Benedict XVI, Wednesday Audience 17 Feb. 2010)

In his weekly audience today in St. Peter&#8217;s Square, B16 stated that the Church asks us to embark on a journey of conversion during Lent:

[C]onversion means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/02/in-these-days-of-lenten-journey/</link>
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		<title>Spring VAW Coming Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost that time of year when the seminary community welcomes another group visitors for our Spring Vocations Awareness Weekend. For all those in the State of Florida who are interested in attending the weekend, please contact the Office of Vocations in your Diocese. The numbers are located below.
Diocese of Orlando:

Archdiocese of Miami: 305-762-1137
Diocese of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/02/spring-vaw-coming-up/</link>
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		<title>Fides et Ratio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, February 5, 2010, St. John Vianney College Seminary hosted the 11th Annual Fides et Ratio Conference. The main speaker for this year&#8217;s conference was the United States Ambassador to the Holy See, Dr. Miguel H. Diaz. Ambassador Diaz studied as a Pre-Theology seminarian for the Archdiocese of Miami back in the day. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/02/fides-et-ratio/</link>
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		<title>Catching Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone!! It has been a few weeks since I last posted anything, so I wanted to keep you all up to speed on how life is going at the seminary. For the most part, things have been relatively quiet around here; not too many things happening out of the ordinary. Nonetheless,  here is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/02/catching-up/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Micah!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief break from my usual posts to wish my nephew, Micah, a very happy and blessed 1st Birthday!!!
(I am just being a proud uncle. What else can I say&#8230;I love that little guy!!!)

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		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/02/happy-birthday-micah/</link>
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		<title>Disaster in Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few hours, the news of the massive, devastating earthquake in Haiti has had precedence on all of our thoughts and minds here at the seminary. The Church in Florida is so uniquely diverse that we have seminarians at St. John Vianney from 17 countries of birth and whom speak five first languages. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/01/disaster-in-haiti/</link>
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		<title>National Vocation Awareness Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A post I did for Whispers of the Spirit:
This week the Church in the United States celebrates National Vocation Awareness Week; a week that the Bishops have set aside in which all Catholics are asked to pray for an increase in vocations. Cardinal Sean O&#8217;Malley of Boston who is the current chairman of the Bishops’ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/01/nvaw/</link>
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		<title>The Cold Hard Truth About the Semester</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the absence over the past couple of weeks. I took the opportunity over the Christmas Recess to really rest, relax and gear up for the new academic semester that began bright and early Monday morning. We woke up to a very chilly 41 degrees , which is down right freezing cold by Florida [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/01/cold-hard-truth/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Be Home for Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas Break is finally upon us!! On Saturday, December 12th, the seminarians drove away from the seminary and headed home to spend the Christmas season with their families and friends. I  was so thankful to be able to get home and immediately enter a brief period of hibernation. Finishing papers, studying for exams, and actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2009/12/ill-be-home-for-christmas/</link>
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		<title>UPDATE: Health Care Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As all of us are aware, the United States Congress has been debating the issue of reforming America’s health care system over the last few months. There is no question about it; there is much reform needed within the health care system. The first major hurdle for the debate came on November 7, 2009 when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2009/12/update-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<title>100th Post!!!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good morning, everyone!! Sorry I have been out of the loop a little over the last few weeks. Things have really been hectic around the seminary with the celebration of the 50th Anniversary, the Fall Vocations Awareness Weekend, and now papers and approaching final exams. However, I did want to share some news with you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2009/12/100th-post/</link>
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		<title>New Diocesan Vicar General</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short break from my usual posts to offer congratulations to Very Reverend Gregory Parkes, Chancellor of the Diocese of Orlando and Parochial Administrator of Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Celebration, Florida, who was named the Vicar General for the Diocese of Orlando last week. Below is the announcement from the Diocese of Orlando website.
Bishop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2009/11/new-diocesan-vicar-general/</link>
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		<title>Remembering Our Veterans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some 91 years ago, the First World War ended with an armistice between the Allied Powers and Germany on November 11, 1918. As a result of the armistice, the United Stated Congress decided to commemorate the day as a national holiday &#8211; Armistice Day. The holiday was meant not only to commemorate the reemergence of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2009/11/remembering-our-veterans/</link>
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