Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Edmonton (Canada)

Category: Formation

  • Creating an Environment for Priestly Ministry

    Our recent spiritual day of renewal featured Fr. Martin Farrell, OP offering his wisdom on creating an environment for priestly ministry. Not only is a good interpersonal support structure needed whether you are married or celibate, but also needed is an environment and strategies for continued formation beyond what is learned in the seminary.  

  • I Am Third

    “I Am Third” is a phrase that is posted in the office of our rector, Fr. Michael. It means that the Lord is first, others and second, and, well, I am third. It was coined by the foundress of the Madonna House Apostolate in Combermere, Ontario – the Servant of God, Catherine Doherty. The entire…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…