[img_assist|nid=25586|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=420]On Friday, February 2, 2018 friends in the Lone Star state will host a banquet to support St. Vladimir’s Seminary. The dinner will be held at Bent Tree Country Club in Dallas, an exclusive venue with superb dining. Alumni Archimandrite Gerasim, dean of the St. Seraphim Cathedral in Dallas, Orthodox Church in America, and Lijin Hannah Raju, general secretary of the Mar Gregorios Orthodox Christian Student Movement of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, both are speaking at the banquet. Seminary President Archpriest Chad Hatfield will be offering remarks as well. Tickets for the banquet meal, which begins at 7 p.m., are priced at $35, with an additional donation requested.
Save the date! [img_assist|nid=24066|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=250|height=360] Dr. Alice-Mary Talbot will present the fourth annual Father John Meyendorff Memorial Lecture on our campus, Friday, September 15, at 7 p.m. Dr. Talbot is the Director Emerita of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, a prestigious research institute of Harvard University, located in Washington, D.C., and is also Editor of the Byzantine Greek series, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.
Grab a bag of popcorn: it’s movie night on our campus, Sunday, September 24, 7 o’clock. We’ll be screening Becoming Truly Human, a fascinating documentary that explores the rise of the “Nones,” i.e., those who check “none of the above” on religion surveys. [img_assist|nid=24096|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=450]Multiple research groups report that the number of Nones had risen from roughly 6% of the U.S. population in the 1990s to 25% as of 2015. However, little research existed on this growing demographic—until now.
Our annual Missions Weekend will feature two fascinating speakers this year, especially in light of world events—one from South Korea, and one from Albania. A campus student-interest group, the St. Innocent Society, is sponsoring the presentations. [img_assist|nid=24156|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=450]SOUTH KOREA
[img_assist|nid=24181|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=450]Archpriest John H. Erickson, our former Dean and the Peter N. Gramowich Professor of Church History Emeritus, will be “coming home” to our campus on Friday, October 27, to deliver the 2017 Annual Florovsky Lecture. The lecture, which honors another former Dean of our seminary, Archpriest Georges Florovsky, is being sponsored by The Orthodox Theological Society of America (OTSA), which will be meeting on our campus October 26–28.
[img_assist|nid=24516|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=200|height=200]Do you ever read the Epistle, or read the Psalms or other Old Testament readings at Vespers? Or, have you ever chanted the Hours? Or, have you ever wondered why Orthodox Christians chant when they read, instead of using a speaking voice? Then the “Workshop for Readers and Musicians,” sponsored by the Diocese of New York and New Jersey (Orthodox Church in America) and hosted on the campus of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, is for you. Whether or not you are a tonsured reader, if you have ever read during liturgical services or simply want to know more about reading during liturgical services, we welcome you to be a participant in this workshop.
[img_assist|nid=25021|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=299|height=251]As part of the Seminary’s “Revitalizing Parish Music” program, a “Music on the Mount” concert will be given Saturday, October 21 at 7 p.m. at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, in Danbury, CT, where Archpriest Luke Mihaly is the pastor. A select mixed choir led by Robin Freeman, who is the Director of Music at the Seminary, will be performing pieces taken from a forthcoming SVS Press CD titled, “Every Day Will I Bless Thee,” as well as some traditional hymns.
[img_assist|nid=25366|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=300|height=200]We are excited to welcome Khouria Krista West, clergy wife, mother, ecclesiastical tailor, and proprietor of Krista West Vestments to St. Vladimir’s October 14–16. Khouria Krista is the commentator of the podcast series, “The Opinionated Tailor,” produced by Ancient Faith Ministries, and is also the author of the SVS Press title: The Garments of Salvation: Orthodox Christian Liturgical Vesture .
[img_assist|nid=25481|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=150]The 35 th Annual Father Alexander Schmemann lecture will focus on the centenary anniversary of the enthronement of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow. Dr. Scott Kenworthy, seminary alumnus (M.A. ’96) and associate professor of Comparative Religion at Miami University, Ohio, will be our guest lecturer. The title of his address is: “St. Tikhon of Moscow (1865–1925) and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia.” The lecture will be part of an Academic Convocation that includes the Commencement Ceremony for graduating Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) students. The graduating students, who comprise the Cohort of 2017, are the first group ever to have been enrolled in the hybrid D.Min.
[img_assist|nid=25501|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=300|height=252] On Sunday, December 3, at 7 p.m., the St. Vladimir’s Seminary Chorale will take listeners on a musical spiritual journey by presenting a concert titled, “Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs.” The event, to be performed in Three Hierarchs Chapel on the seminary campus, will commemorate the 100 th anniversary of the election and enthronement of Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow. The program will include music of the Orthodox Christian Church, selected from the daily and festal liturgical cycles.