[img_assist|nid=13162|title=|desc=Fr. John Meyendorff, +1992|link=none|align=left|width=185|height=250]On Sunday evening, September 15, at 7 o'clock, St. Vladimir's Seminary will host the first Father John Meyendorff Annual Memorial Lecture, featuring The Very Rev. John H. Erickson, dean of St. Vladimir's from 2002–2007, as speaker. The lecture, titled "'Does Christian Tradition Have a Future?' Father John Meyendorff's Question Revisited," will be held in conjunction with SVOTS Alumni Days scheduled for September 15 and 16. Father John Erickson will also be awarded a Doctor of Canon Law degree (honoris causa) at an academic convocation just prior to the lecture, and he will preside at the Divine Liturgy and offer the homily in Three Hierarchs Chapel on Sunday morning.

[img_assist|nid=13916|title=|desc=L to R: Gregory Tucker, Joshua Burnett, Ian Abodeely, Christopher Rakowski, Brad Vien, Joshua Shooping, Will Rettig, Demetri Bayrouty, Hdn. Herman |link=popup|align=left|width=388|height=250]SAVE THE DATES! The St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary Octet is scheduled for the following appearances: November 10, 2013 Kimisis Tis Theotokou Church, Southampton, NY The Very Rev. Alexander Karloutsos The Rev. Constantine Lazarakis View the photos of the Octet's visit December 8, 2013 Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Stroudsburg, PA

[img_assist|nid=13431|title=|desc=Original cover of book by Fr. Alexander Schmemann (Dean, 1962-1983)|link=url|url=http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e7uh2hx0b30d122a&llr=6cfc8tnab|align=left|width=200|height=309] For more information and to register, visit the College Education Day page. College Education Day, in honor of former seminary Dean Father Alexander Schmemann, will take place Saturday, October 5, 2013 on our campus. The day will feature both The Rev. Christopher Foley (alumnus, '06), currently rector of Exaltation of Holy Cross Church, High Point, NC, and The Rev. Joel Weir, a graduate of St. Tikhon's Seminary and currently rector of St. Stephen the First Martyr Orthodox Church, Crawfordsville, IN.

[img_assist|nid=13635|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=313|height=400] View the program for Magnificat Choirs from two local theological schools representing Eastern and Western Christendom will jointly present an a cappella concert titled “Magnificat: Hymns to the Mother of God from the East and West” on Monday evening, November 25, 2013, 7:30 pm, at St. Jean Baptiste Church, 184 East 76th Street, New York City. The Male Choir from St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, of the Orthodox Church in America, will join with a Schola from St. Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie) of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, in praise of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, who holds a place of honor in both traditions.

At the beginning of the 2014 ecclesiastical year, Professor of Philosophy Dr. Bruce Foltz, an Orthodox Christian and faculty member at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL, will offer a free and public lecture at St. Vladimir's Seminary on "The Truth of Nature." The talk will contrast today's post–modern assumptions regarding the environment with the patristic and historic Christian understanding of what it means to care for God's creation. The lecture, to be held in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium in the John G. Rangos Family Foundation Building on the Yonkers campus, will be followed by a question and answer session and a reception in the Rangos Building's atrium.

Friday, November 22, 2013, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. [img_assist|nid=14040|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=left|width=200|height=200]Dr. Michael Colburn, Mission Specialist in Linguistics and Translation for the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), will be on St. Vladimir's Seminary's campus to talk about his work in translating Orthodox Christian liturgical texts into native languages in East Africa and Guatemala. Once a missionary linguist / translator with the Wycliffe Bible Translators serving the Ogea people of Papua New Guinea, Dr. Colburn also worked twenty-four years as a full-time software developer and software product manager for the US Government. He has degrees in Biblical Studies, Linguistics, and Computer Science, and he will be discussing the software tools and courses he has developed to help Orthodox Christians around the world worship in their mother tongues.

[img_assist|nid=14242|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=left|width=232|height=300][img_assist|nid=14243|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=right|width=189|height=250]On Sunday December 1 at 7 p.m., St. Vladimir's Seminary's student–run St. Ambrose Society will be hosting Dr. Ryan Nash, M.D., M.A. for a free and public lecture. Entitled "Compassion and Conscience: Health, the Good Life, and Death," the talk will be held in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium. Following the lecture, a question and answer session will allow for response and discussion. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion.

[img_assist|nid=14246|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=right|width=172|height=250][img_assist|nid=14307|title=|desc=The Very Rev. Dr. John McGuckin|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=300]The 31st Annual Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture titled "On 'The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church'" will be presented by The Very Rev. Dr. John McGuckin, a leading international commentator on Eastern Orthodox theology and early Christian history. The free and public lecture, Friday, January 31, 2014, will be immediately preceded by an academic convocation at 7:00 p.m., at which Fr. John will be awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree honoris causa.

[img_assist|nid=14273|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=left|width=350|height=197]The March for Life is an annual event in the nation's capital marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion in all 50 states. This year's 41st March is scheduled for January 22, 2014, and will be preceded by a noon rally with prayers and guest speakers at the National Mall. The St. Ambrose Society, St. Vladimir's Seminary's Pro Life group, has reserved a 47–passenger bus with restroom facilities. The bus is open to the public, and will leave campus at 5 a.m. on January 22 to travel to Washington D.C. for the March, returning on the same day at about midnight.

[img_assist|nid=14815|title=|desc=|link=url|url=http://ircpl.org/event/heaven-and-earth/|align=left|width=323|height=500][img_assist|nid=12895|title=May 2013 concert, Seminary Chorale|desc=|link=url|url=http://ircpl.org/event/heaven-and-earth/|align=right|width=300|height=200] Still available: Tuesday, April 29, 7:30–9:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, New Rochelle, NY — first come, first served seating Sold out! Thursday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. concert at The Glicker-Milstein Theatre, in the Diana Center, 3009 Broadway ( Sign up for the waiting list)