Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Edmonton (Canada)

Author: Father Rector

  • 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…

  • Paschal Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav

    Christ is Risen! The day of resurrection – let us rejoice, O peoples! Pascha of the Lord, Pascha, for Christ God brought us from death to life and from earth to heaven – as we sing the victorious song! (Paschal Canon, Resurrection Matins) Today, on the day of the glorious feast of the Resurrection of…

  • Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav to the Youth

    “…therefore, like children, we also carry signs of victory and cry out to You the conqueror of death: Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Tropar of Palm Sunday) Dear Beloved Youth in Christ! On the Feast of the triumphant entry of our Lord to the capital…

  • Послання Блаженнішого Святослава, Верховного Архиєпископа Києво-Галицького, до Молоді

    «Тим-то і ми, як отроки, знамена перемоги носячи, Тобі, переможцеві смерті, воскликуємо: Осанна в вишніх, благословен, хто йде в ім’я Господнє!» Тропар Квітної неділі Улюблена у Христі українська молоде! У святковий день тріумфального входу Господнього до стольного града Єрусалима звертаюся до вас зі своїм першим, після сходження на престол Отця і Глави Української Греко-Католицької Церкви,…