On Thursday, June 12, 7 p.m, celebrated scholar and Eastern Catholic Churchman Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ will be hosted by the 2014 Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy (SOL) during their annual meeting, and will present the keynote address. Father Taft's lecture, titled "Goodbye to All That: Swansong of an Old Academician," will be free and open to the public and will be held in the Seminary's The Metropolitan Philip Auditorium of The John G. Rangos Family Building. [img_assist|nid=15381|title=|desc=Fr. Robert Taft, offering the Schmemann Lecture in 2009|link=popup|align=right|width=350|height=263]

[img_assist|nid=14748|title=|desc=Practicum participants with Bishop Michael, 2013|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=200]Register now for this four–day program of intense liturgical training to be held from Sunday, June 22–Wednesday, June 25, 2014 on the campus of St. Vladimir's Seminary. H eld in conjunction with the Orthodox Church in America's Diaconal Vocations Program (DVP), this workshop is for deacons and lay diaconal candidates and will be supported by celebration of the Divine Liturgy and other services.

[img_assist|nid=16383|title=View our own Chef Nat's personal invitation to Education Day!|desc=|link=url|url=https://vimeo.com/106421668|align=right|width=250|height=431]This year's theme for the seminary's annual campus open house, Orthodox Education Day 2014, will be "Do Books Still Matter? A Celebration of Orthodox Christian Publications." “Ed Day” will be held Saturday, October 4 and will pay tribute to the importance of Orthodox Christian authors, illustrators, and publishing houses throughout the world. Nine Orthodox Christian publishers will display their books and wares:

[img_assist|nid=16015|title=|desc=Bishop Alexander, speaking at 2012 St. Vladimir's Commencement|link=popup|align=left|width=200|height=300] The Rt. Rev. Alexander (Golitzin), bishop of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese, Orthodox Church in America (OCA), will present the second annual Father John Meyendorff Memorial Lecture, 7 p.m., Sunday, September 14, 2014, at the seminary. His Grace has chosen the topic: "Force Your Mind to Descend into the Heart": Some Resemblances between Byzantine Hesychasm and Merkavah Mysticism.”

[img_assist|nid=16044|title=|desc=Dr. Theokritoff speaking at the launch of SVOTS' "Go Green" initiative in 2007|link=url|url=http://www.svots.edu/content/go-green-initiative-launched|align=left|width=300|height=156] Dr. Elizabeth Theokritoff will present a free, public lecture titled “Cosmic Liturgy and the Problems of Human ‘Priesthood’ ” on Sunday, August 31, 2014, 7 p.m., at the seminary. Sponsored by the St. Herman’s Society for Orthodox Ecology, the lecture will be preceded by a tree-planting ceremony on the campus grounds at 6 p.m., and an Akathist service in Three Hierarchs Chapel, beginning at 6:15 p.m. The lecture itself will be held in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium of the John G. Rangos Family Building, and a public reception will follow.

[img_assist|nid=16232|title=|desc=Assembly of Bishops, 2013 Annual Meeting|link=none|align=right|width=300|height=209]Friday, October 24, 7:00 pm, Orthodox Christian Laity, Open Public Forum: Join in on an enlivened public discussion on: "The History and Future of the Assembly of Bishops and the Proposed Great and Holy Council in 2016." Featured speaker for the OCL Open Forum will be Alexei Krindatch, consultant to the Regional Planning Committee of the Assembly of Bishops. He will give insights into the work of that committee, as it develops a blueprint for a unified Orthodox Church in the USA.

Monday, October 27, 6:30pm, Annual Missions Night: Fr. Nicholas Andruchow, and his wife, Presbytera Merilyn, will present a free public lecture, “Changing the World: Transformation through Missions with Project Mexico and St. Innocent Orphanage as a Model.” They will recount heart-warming and heart-rending stories of the families and children they serve at Project Mexico and St. Innocent Orphanage, as they build homes and generate hope in Tijuana, Mexico. They will also speak about the transformation that occurs in missionaries and interns that serve. [img_assist|nid=16234|title=|desc=The children of St. Innocent Orphanage|link=none|align=right|width=300|height=224]

[img_assist|nid=16673|title=|desc=Metropolitan Hilarion speaks at St. Vladimir's Seminary|link=popup|align=left|width=350|height=288]On Saturday, November 8, 7:00 p.m., His Eminence The Most Reverend Hilarion (Alfeyev), metropolitan of Volokolamsk and chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, will deliver a free and public lecture at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary.

[img_assist|nid=16335|title=Click to download flyer|desc=|link=url|url=https://www.svots.edu/sites/default/files/flier_srvassa_oct2014.pdf|align=right|width=386|height=500]Join us for Coffee with Sister Vassa! October 2, 2014, Thursday evening, 8:15 p.m. Metropolitan Philip Auditorium, The John G. Rangos Family Building

[img_assist|nid=16598|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=216|height=300][img_assist|nid=16599|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=228|height=300] The St. Ambrose Society, St. Vladimir's student-run Pro Life group, is sponsoring a daylong course titled "Pastoral Counseling following abortion and other crises," to be held in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium, John G. Rangos Family Foundation Building, on Friday, October 24, from 9–5. Specifically designed for pastors and trained counselors, the seminary will also be useful for parish lay ministers engaged with those suffering from post-abortion distress and other trauma. Dr. Theresa Karminski Burke, founder of Rachel's Vineyard, the largest ministry in the world dealing with post-abortion healing, will lead four sessions: "The Need for Post-Abortion Counseling," "Pregnancy Loss and Suicide," "Crash Course in Trauma (PTSD)," and "Brain Science: How Emotional Trauma Impacts the Brain."