Our Seminarians

Randy Vette

Home Parish: St. Joseph's of Spearfish

 

What is your favorite book? Rhythm of Life by Matthew Kelly

 

What is your favorite movie? Book of Eli

 

What is your favorite band? --

 

What do you do for fun? Play games, especially basketball!

 

Who is your favorite Saint? St. Thomas Aquinas

 

What high school did you attend? Spearfish High School

 

What year did you enter the seminary? 2011, second semester of sophomore year

 

What did you do prior to seminary entrance? I was a student at Creighton University

 

What influenced your decision to enter the seminary?

I had thought about my vocation a lot and felt a pull to the seminary, then I spent the summer with seminarians as a teacher in the Duc in Altum program and I knew where I had to go.

Who did you talk to about your calling?

Besides Jesus, I mostly talked to Jesuit priests at Creighton and close friends.
Why are you pursuing the possibility of a vocation to the priesthood? Becuase I am pursuing God's will, I want to do what I was created to be.

What did your family and friends think about your decision to enter the seminary?

Everybody was happy for me and I met very little resistence. I few family members were worried about me simply because they didn't really know the process or the call to be celibate. Other than that, I found that people had a lot of interest in what I was choosing to do.

How familiar were you with seminary before applying?

I was familiar enough to be comfortable with it, although I had a lot to learn. Seminarians and seminary visits helped a lot.

 

What do you like about the seminary the most?

To put it simply, God is here. Or maybe I should say less of the world is here. Either way I love that I can more easily grow closer to Him, and despite my human struggles I can have peace in the present and hope in the future.

What advice would you give to a young man thinking about the seminary?

Pray, pray again, and pray some more. As Jesus says repeatedly in the Gospels, "Do not be afraid" God has created you for one vocation, and if you fill that vocation by following God's will, you will be happy and unimaginably rewarded.