Mount Angel Seminary is a formative community where seminarians from many dioceses and religious communities carry out the important and vital task of discerning and being formed for the Lord’s call to ordained priestly ministry in the Church. As a formative community, all who participate in the life of the Seminary – the Benedictine community of monks, professors, formation directors, spiritual directors, pastoral field education supervisors, local pastors called upon to supervise deacons in weekend assignments, administration, and support staff – intentionally support and contribute to the mission of the Seminary and accompany the seminarian at each stage of his discernment and preparation. Every aspect of life is meant to be formative for the seminarians who live, pray, and study here at Mount Angel and are accompanied in their formation by all whose work occurs on, and contributes to, this hilltop. The Seminary at Mount Angel is not just a place, but also a time for each seminarian who, in discerning a vocation to priestly ministry in the Church, is continuing to learn what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, while entering into a new phase of understanding how the Lord is calling him to “Come and see.” The seminarian’s journey of discipleship began at his baptism and continues through the guidance and nurturing of that foundational vocation by those who have accompanied him: his family, parish, and wider community of friends. While it is a journey begun at baptism, in the formative community that is the Seminary, the seminarian advances on what is an integrated path through consecutive stages of formation.