On the same morning Pope Leo XIV receives in the Clementine Hall about 150 seminarians and the formators of the "Pius XI" Pontifical Regional Seminary of Apulia in Molfetta and of the Diocesan Seminary of Aversa: the Molfetta students are in Rome for the centenary of the new headquarters ordered by Pius XI, while those of Aversa mark the 300th anniversary of the opening of their college. The Pope points to "learning to be with the Master, Jesus" as the heart of the seminary experience — Jesus "called those he wanted so that they would be with him": study, discipline and the stages of the journey are necessary, but they are worthwhile only if grounded in the relationship with God and in a "supernatural vision" able to recognize the Lord's action in the ordinary circumstances of each day. He then stresses that "the time of the seminary remains necessary, today no less than yesterday": precisely because our age is "fast and noisy," there is a need for a place and a season of life in which to learn to abide, to discern and to let oneself be formed without shortcuts. He recalls that no one is called through their own merit — "there is no competition, there is no ranking" — but only through a free election by God the Father, and that "the Church is lived together; it is the property of none of us." Pointing to the figure of Don Tonino Bello, the former bishop of Molfetta, he urges them to come down from the mountain to be sent to the people of their lands: "families who struggle, young people who pack a suitcase to look for work, lonely elderly people, the marginalized."