Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Edmonton (Canada)

Author: Father Rector

  • 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…

  • 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 –…

  • 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.

  • Priests Should Promote Sanctity With Their Own Lives

    VATICAN CITY, 26 JAN 2012 (VIS) – This morning in the Vatican the Holy Father received superiors and seminarians from three Italian regional pontifical seminaries in Assisi, Catanzaro and Naples. All of these institutions, as the Pope remarked in his address to the group, are currently celebrating their first centenary having been founded as part…