There is no "Missionary's Manual' for Sierra Leone, a West African country of magnificent natural beauty deeply scarred by the meanest forms of human brutality during the civil wars that lasted from 1991 to 2004. The religious question in Sierra Leone is not so much the bourgeois "What Would Jesus...
Save the date! [img_assist|nid=8266|title=|desc=We welcome back Dr. Vigen Guroian, who spoke at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Education Day in 2009.|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=366] Dr. Vigen Guroian, professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, will lead our annual public lenten retreat this year on Saturday, March 31, 2012. The retreat will begin with a Divine Liturgy celebrated in our campus Chapel of the Three Hierarchs at 9 a.m., followed by a lenten brunch and then two presentations by Dr. Guroian. First Talk with Q&A 11:30 a.m.: "I confess the Cross because I know of the Resurrection" Coffee and Bookstore Break: 12:30 p.m. Second Talk with Q&A 1 p.m.: "O Death, where is your sting?"
NEW POPULAR PATRISTICS from SVS Press, available for order in December 2011 Popular Patristics Series Numbers 44a and 44b On the Incarnation, a new translation and introduction by Archpriest John Behr, Dean of St. Vladimir's Seminary Preface by C.S. Lewis By any standard, this is a classic of Christian theology...
Each year, St. Nicholas (aka Santa Claus, Svyatyi Mykolay, Father Christmas, Sinterklaas, San Nicola, et cetera) visits the seminary campus to distribute gifts and candy to our resident children during a festive get-together following Divine Liturgy. Bidding his presence requires a little wonder-working: our church school children sing the traditional...
Our seminary wives' group, the St. Juliana Society, wrapped up its fall semester activities with a how-to in Christmas wreath-making. Tanya Penkrat, who is the Special Events Coordinator here at St. Vladimir's and a former florist, instructed the women in creating holiday decor, using fresh (and free!) branches cut from...
[img_assist|nid=8772|title=|desc=Fr. Chad Hatfield, Chancellor, giving a retreat at St. George Cathedral, Charleston, WV, where Alumnus Fr. Olaf Scott serves as Dean.|link=none|align=right|width=450|height=331]Our Chancellor/CEO Archpriest Chad Hatfield frequently travels around the country—preaching in parishes, teaching at other seminaries, touring with our Men's Choir, engaging in inter-Orthodox and ecumenical dialogue, and even leading missionary teams. It's his way of connecting with alumni, friends, donors, and potential students, informing them of what's happening at our school and receiving feedback as to how the seminary might better serve them and the Church at-large. We hope you meet up with Fr. Chad if he visits your locale; he will warmly greet you. His schedule for 2012 is posted below. 2012 1 January
His Eminence Savas (Zembillas), who has been an episcopal member of our Board of Trustees since 2008, and who was elected Metropolitan of the Metropolis of Pittsburgh of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese (GOA) this past November, will be enthroned December 8th at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Pittsburgh, his...
On Sunday, December 11, at the Patriarchal Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand in Lebanon, two of our alumni were among three ordained to the episcopacy in the Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America (AOCANA). The three new hierarchs were ordained by His Beatitude, Ignatius IV, patriarch of the...
Our seminary Men's Choir sang at St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Cohoes, New York, the weekend of December 4–5, in honor of the parish's feast day. The choir sang both Great Vespers and the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy, at which His Grace The Rt. Rev. Michael (Dahulich), bishop of New York City...
Author: Fr. Theophan Whitfield The Doctor of Ministry Program at St Vladimir’s Seminary: Four Things I’ve Learned (So Far) The pastor and the triage nurse have much in common. Both spend significant time assigning priority among hard cases. In the parish and in the emergency room, the need for urgent...