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Seminary Year 2024-2025
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Patriarch’s Priestly Vocation Born Under Communist Rule
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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CCCB: Pastoral Letter on Freedom of Conscience and Religion
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
“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…
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Liturgical Services at Seminary, March 31 – April 10, 2012
April 1, 2012 – Palm Sunday 8:00 AM – Palm (Flowery) Sunday Festal Matins -Eng/Ukr April 2, 2012 – Great & Holy Monday 6:30 AM – Seminary – Bridegroom Matins – Eng 5:30 PM – Parish – Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts – Eng April 3, 2012 – Great & Holy Tuesday 6:30 AM –…
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By the Rivers of Babylon
Our seminarians singing “By the Rivers of Babylon” at the Ottawa Eastern Catholic Student Chaplaincy on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son 2012.