Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Edmonton (Canada)

Author: Father Rector

  • 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…

  • Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

    Today marks the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity throughout the world. We are participating in the events at Saint Paul University today and will provde a report on that later. But for today, a video of the prayer service at Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine) on January 24, 2012.

  • Seminarian’s Prayer

    Most blessed Lord Jesus Christ, send the grace of Thy Holy Spirit upon me, to strengthen me that I may learn well the things I am about to study, and by them become a better person for Thy glory, for the welfare of my family, and for the benefit of Thy Holy Church. Let this…

  • Priestly Life Requires Ever-Increasing Thirst for Sanctity

    VATICAN CITY, 20 JAN 2012 (VIS) – This morning in the Clementine Hall the Holy Father received seventy professors and students of the diocesan seminary of Rome, the “Almo Collegio Capranica”. Tomorrow the 555 year-old college will be celebrating the feast of its patroness St Agnes, and it was on that third-century virgin and martyr…

  • Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in Cantonese

    This is a Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom celebrated in Cantonese on 2 October 2011 at the parish of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Hong Kong. The chief celebrant is a visiting Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest from Melbourne, Australia, Rt Rev. Olexander Kenez.

  • Carol Festival 2012

    Our seminarians participate in the annual Carol Festival at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church – the National Shrine – in Ottawa. Our thanks to new seminarian, Tom Hrywna, for posting this video to YouTube.

  • 30th Anniversary Celebration

    We wish to invite you to celebrate with us in this special year of milestones for our institutions. The Sheptytsky Institute was founded 25 years ago while Holy Spirit Seminary was established 30 years ago. As such, please accept our invitation to attend three events that we are planning together in the Ottawa are for…