February is often called the month of love, but at St. Lawrence we live out that love through service. Rooted in Christ’s call to love our neighbors, SLS students celebrate that call with compassion, generosity, and connection.

Our various ministry programs give students the chance to share that love with people across our community. As winter settles in and the world feels quieter, our school chooses to brighten it with service.

Here’s how our students are spreading the love this year:

Angel Tree Project

• Students purchase, wrap, and deliver gifts for children of incarcerated parents. Our students don’t physically visit the prisoners. However, through the sharing of gifts with the children they do the next best thing, which is to treat the families of the incarcerated with respect and integrity.

Hospice

• In addition to visiting and providing comfort for hospice patients, our students also help deliver meals to residents at the Hospice Home of Hope.

Assisted Living Entertainment

• Throughout the year, our student musicians visit local assisted livings to give performances and provide music for residents

Bingo

• On Fridays, our students visit and take part in bingo with those living in assisted living. Ministering at these locations provides students with an opportunity to bring their youthful energy into a nursing home setting. 

Humane Society

• Students clean cages and interact with the animals to help them socialize so that they’re ready for future homes.

Apple Pie Making

• Each year, a local Catholic grade school, Divine Savior, holds their annual apple pie fundraiser. Our students help cut and peel apples, make crusts, assemble, and package pies.

Special Olympics

• Each week our students attend bowling and basketball nights for a local group home, spending quality time with disabled adults and helping them score points and take part in the games.

Mission Trip

• Every year a group of SLS students visit and take part in missions in other Catholic communities around the world. Between ministry work, masses, and exploration, our students always have a great time.

Broken Bread

• This local food bank is a safe haven for many impoverished individuals and families. Our students help sort, organize, and distribute food for the community.

Capuchin Community Services

• Our students help serve meals through the province’s soup kitchen and occasionally provide support through St. Ben’s homeless resource center.

Parish Fish Fry

• SLS students get involved in a local parish fish fries throughout the year, providing community, fellowship, & service.

Leaf Raking

• Every fall, students go out into the Mt. Calvary community to rake leaves for residents who are unable to do so for themselves.

Housing Rehab

• Students work on a wide variety of projects, all aimed at building a house for an impoverished family in central city Milwaukee.

Toy Making

• Students in both our wood shop and art classes work toward building and decorating toys for the House of Peace Christmas Toy Drive.

Halloween Cave Tours

• As part of a local nature center fundraiser, our students dress up as woodland creatures and set the scene for attendees as a part of their Halloween Cave Tours.

Easter Egg Hunt

• Students help hide Easter Eggs for a local parish’s Easter Egg Hunt.

Book Sale

• Our students also take part in Altrusa’s yearly used book sales.

Love in Every Act

February reminds us that love is a verb, an action, something to be expressed through generosity, service, and genuine care for others. Through every ministry opportunity, our students grow in compassion and understanding for their neighbors and fellow brothers.

This month, as we celebrate Valentine’s Day and reflect on Christ’s example, we commit ourselves again to being a community that puts love into motion; one act of service, one conversation, one small kindness at a time.

As the seminarians continue their ministry, allow them to pray for your intentions at their Masses and prayers.

Share in our Seminary tradition this All Souls Day

As autumn’s days unfold, the Church invites us to look to all those who have walked this path before us – both those recognized as saints as well as our departed loved ones now living in God’s presence.

Every year, on the evening of All Souls Day, our Seminary Community gathers in the dark chapel. A solitary candle burns next to our Book of Remembrance. Its pages are now full and heavy with memory made holy by faith. During our prayer service, we call out the names inscribed in this Book of Remembrance. The young man who wrote them comes forward, lights a candle, and places it in a box of sand before the altar. Our hearts take light and hope from the quiet, growing glow of grace-filled memories of all those who have loved us and gone before us to God.

To share in the All Souls Day prayer service offered by the seminarians and Capuchin Friars at Saint Lawrence Seminary, please fill out the form below. You honor us with the opportunity to pray with and for your deceased loved ones this All Souls Day and always.

You Are Invited

Please join us on Sunday, October 26, 2025, for our 26th Annual Benefactor Open House.

Come and meet the Capuchin friars and young men praying for you and your intentions each day at Saint Lawrence Seminary. Come and see your faithful generosity and prayers at work in their lives.

Open House Schedule:

Our celebration of the Mass begins at 10:15 AM and will be followed by lunch. This year the senior class of 2026 is delighted to give tours of their new home, Fr. Solanus Hall, another testament of our benefactor’s commitment to the seminary.

Unable to be with us in person? Please join for the livestream of our mass.

St. Lawrence Seminary High School – Benefactors Open House 2025

Please use the RSVP form below and let us know how many will be coming. Thank you!

Your prayers and support make their journey of faith possible!

Nearly one hundred forty young men from across the United States and other countries are attending Saint Lawrence Seminary this year. They have come here to explore God’s call to lives of service in the Church as priests, religious, and dedicated lay leaders for this 166th school year.

Every young man at Saint Lawrence Seminary receives a “scholarship” of over $30,000. This financial support helps cover the difference between what is asked of his family and the true annual cost of educating, feeding, and providing for a young man at the seminary. Nevertheless, many of the young men attending Saint Lawrence this year require additional tuition aid. Some families can afford less than half the tuition. They truly sacrifice and struggle to send their son to the Seminary.

Your support of our Annual Seminarian Appeal is vital. Please consider an extraordinary gift to help sponsor just one young man at Saint Lawrence Seminary this year.

• $45 would help cover one seminarian’s “scholarship” for half a day of the school year.
• $90 would roughly cover one seminarian’s “scholarship” for one day.
• $600 would sponsor one seminarian for one week of school.

Thank you in advance for responding so generously to our Annual Seminarian Appeal!

Saint Lawrence Seminary is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.  Your gifts in support of Saint Lawrence Seminary are tax-deductible.