"A vocation is discovered and accepted within a community.  It is formed in the Seminary, in the context of an educating community, comprised of various members of the People of God.  This community leads the seminarian, through ordination, to become part of the "family" of the presbyterate, at the service of a particular community." 

Ratio Fundamentalis

The formation community at St. Patrick’s fosters maturity, faithfulness to the Church, intellectual depth, fortitude, love for the poor, a disciplined prayer life, and the human skills that will allow the seminarian to relate to those people to whom he ministers with ease and affection.