This current article is the result of a quantitative research conducted with just over two thousand Brazilian catholic seminarians in May 2020. After this period, a second research phase was elaborated, of a quantitative nature. That one comprised thirteen interviews semi-structured with seminarians from the five Brazilian regions, members of the last years of discipleship and confi guration. From their narratives, some articulation with contemporary authors were established. The central objective of this work was to understand how the formative dynamic of the catholic seminarians was and keeps being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has caused trainees and formators to rethink many of the current confi gurations of the priestly formation. The sanitary crises made us go back to the question of the real necessity of the seminaries and how to think them in the 21st century, living the Church s orientation through the Ratio Fundamentalis and the Church in Brazil, through the 110 Document (Guidelines for the Formation of Church Presbyters in Brazil).