Register for St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s spring and summer 2009 upcoming events
In spring and summer 2009, St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) will host several events for the public, in keeping with its commitment to outreach, evangelism, and service to the faithful. The seminary invites the public to register for upcoming retreats, conferences, and workshops, and to make SVS their home for a day…or more.
St. Vladimir’s Seminary welcomes the public to several 2009 spring and summer events, including a Lenten retreat, prospective student open house, iconography workshop, Diaconal Liturgical Practicum, and summer conference. [Three Hierarchs seminary chapel photo credit: SVS News] |
Archpriest Alexander Atty, rector of St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church, Louisville, KY (Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese), will present the annual public Lenten retreat on Saturday, April 4, titled, “Good and Faithful Servants.” He will speak about “The Good and Faithful Pastor,” “The Good and Faithful Parishioner,” and “The Good and Faithful Parish.”
Two master iconographers, one painting in the Russo-Byzantine style and the other painting in the Greek-Cretan School tradition, will offer exclusive iconography workshops from June 11-17. Fr. Protodeacon Nazari Polataiko, of the Ss. Alipij & Andrei Rublev Icon Studio in Winnipeg Canada, and Khouriya Erin Mary Kimmett of Norwood, MA, will each open their summer workshops to 12 students, ranging in experience from novice to master.
Already-ordained deacons and future candidates can be trained in ways appropriate to their experience at a Diaconal Liturgical Practicum June 14-17. This annual practicum is coordinated by lead deacon of the seminary chapel, Associate Chancellor for Systems, and Lecturer in Liturgics at the Seminary, Archdeacon Kirill Sokolov, who now also serves as Archdeacon to His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).
Finally, from June 18-20, the seminary will host a summer conference titled, “The Council and the Tomos: Twentieth-century Landmarks towards a Twenty-first-century Church.” Conference speakers will focus on two watersheds that have shaped the Orthodox Church in America (OCA): the All-Russian Council (Sobor) of 1917-18 and the Tomos of Autocephaly granted in 1970 by the Russian Orthodox Church to its daughter church, the OCA, then known as the “North American Diocese.” The conference will address the significance of the OCA’s presence in North America, and future paths and possibilities open to it, including its interface with the multi-jurisdictional Orthodox Christian communities in the U.S. and Canada. The Very Rev. Alexander Garklavs, Chancellor of the OCA, will deliver a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. on June 18 to commence the summer conference.
Link to “Upcoming Events” on the SVS home page to register and to view the details of each event: www.svots.edu/News/Upcoming/