Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Edmonton (Canada)

Author: Father Rector

  • His Beatitude Sviatoslav Addresses the CCCB

    September 25, 2012, Ste-Adele, Quebec Your Eminences, You Excellencies, Dear Brother Bishops of Canada, This is for me a particular privilege and honour to be among you, as Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the largest of the Eastern Churches in the Catholic communion. Only 20 years ago this was the so-called “Silent” Church…

  • Banquet Greetings of His Beatitude SVIATOSLAV

    Sunday, September 16, 2012 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Your Grace, Metropolitan Lawrence, Your Excellencies, Reverend Fathers, Venerable Sisters, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Guests, My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ! Glory to Jesus Christ! Slava Isusu Khrystu! First of all, let me express to all of you how happy and grateful I am to be here…

  • Homily of His Beatitude SVIATOSLAV on September 9, 2012

    14th Sunday (Julian Calendar) Hierarchical Divine Liturgy Metropolitan Cathedral of Sts. Volodymyr & Olha Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Slava Isusu Khrystu! Glory to Jesus Christ! Your Grace, Metropolitan Lawrence, thank you for welcoming me to your Cathedral of Saints Volodymyr and Olha. It is a pleasure to be with you today. My Dear Brother Bishops, those…

  • 55 Maxims

    by Fr. Thomas Hopko Be always with Christ. Pray as you can, not as you want. Have a keepable rule of prayer that you do by discipline. Say the Lord’s Prayer several times a day. Have a short prayer that you constantly repeat when your mind is not occupied with other things. Make some prostrations…

  • Our Gratitude to Michael Sowsun (Solsun)!

    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…

  • Please, Father, ask Christ…

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…