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We wish to thank the family of Michael Sowsun (Solsun) and all the members of the Michael Sowsun (Solsun) Memorial Fund Committee who recently granted a gift to our Seminary that will assist in providing Ukrainian language classes to our seminarians and in providing an opportunity for seminarians to further improve their Ukrainian language skills…
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The Divine Liturgy sustains the world! And we are so unworthy of it! There are priests who live this awesome Mystery at every Divine Liturgy. A priest once told me something that a very simple and good priest had once confessed to him, “I have such a hard time during the consuming of the Holy…
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From a recent interview by Zenit with Patriarch Sviatoslav: I grew up in a completely atheistic society where all forms of the transcendental were eliminated. We were taught that there is no God. The family, however, taught a different value and became the vehicle that transmitted the Christian faith. It was during these times that…
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The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) today released a pastoral letter on freedom of conscience and religion. Issued by the CCCB Permanent Council, the letter expresses concern about an “aggressive relativism” in Canada that seeks to relegate religion to the private sphere. “Legitimate secularity draws a distinction between religion and politics, between Church and…
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“Christ’s priesthood has its source not in man, but in the divine person and ministry of the Son of God. The priest is called to be a light ray of eternity in the interim, a living icon of the Savior’s presence among the people of God, the presence that throughout history the Church was a…