One of the many things that we, at the Seminary and around in Kondadaba do during the Feast of the Parish is to explain to people who have absolutely no idea about religious life and community life, the whole concept of Priesthood and Priestly formation. So you are bombarded with questions like, 'How many years to you study?' 'What do you study?', 'Oh! you do not get married?', 'What is your source of income?', 'How can you live like this?'...
Yesterday evening to lady constables who were on their beat in the Seminary happened to meet our cooks and were 'interrogating' them. One of their questions was, "What is the meaning of Selimary?" A couple of Brothers too were around at this time and were unable to get the word of which they were asking the meaning. They asked them to repeat the question and it again ended with 'Selimary'. However, our illiterate cooks got them right in the first instance itself. They meant 'Seminary'.
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