Magister adest et vocat te (“The Master is here and he is calling you”) is the simple quotation in gold letters about the threshold of the seminary chapel. Because the feast day of its patron, St John the Beloved Disciple, falls within its Christmas holidays, the seminary at Wonersh, near Guildford, keeps the feast at the end of January with a pontifical Mass and a festal lunch. The guests of honour are alumni who are celebrating 25, 40 or 50 years since ordination. I am fortunate enough to be invited as I do some spiritual direction in the seminary.