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Fr. Jason and Presbytera Halyna Charron Seminar

Ryan Dumont — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:57:58 +0000

Seminar Series

Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 7:00-8:30 PM

Presenters: Fr. Jason and Presbytera Halyna Charron

Topic: Insights on Married Priesthood

Synopsis: Balancing their domestic vocation as a married couple raising a houseful of daughters with their vocation as workers in Christ’s vineyard has produced many experiences over the past decade. During this talk those gathered will hear practical and theoretical insights that will help them prepare for an abundant life as priest/presbytera in their given parishes. What to do if your three-year old daughter walks through the Holy Doors during Liturgy to be with daddy? How to respond when your 18-month old pulls the fire alarm in a packed church? Should the priest’s kids be given different treatment? Does marital love detract from priestly service? When two duties conflict, is there a roadmap to follow in making good choices? This talk aims to address these questions and more.

Question and Answer session included.
Program concludes by 8:30 PM.

Location: Byzantine Catholic Seminary, 3605 Perrysville Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15214

R.S.V.P.: By September 25 at office@bcs.edu or 412-321-8383

Rev. Fr. Jason Charron is Pastor at Holy Trinity, Carnegie, PA and Administrator at St. Mary’s, Wheeling, WV, in the Eparchy of St. Josaphat. He is married to Halyna Charron, and they have been blessed with six daughters. His graduate thesis from the Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky Institute addressed the topic of: “Akedia and its Therapy in the Writings of Fathers.” His academic and spiritual formation was at Wadhams Hall Seminary College, (Ogdensburg, NY) and Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary, (Ottawa, Canada) where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Honor’s Double Major in Philosophy/Religious Studies, an STB from St. Paul’s University, Ottawa and M.A. University of Ottawa, respectively. His Bachelor’s Arts in Education was earned at Univesity of Toronto in 2008. He has worked in Education at various levels from elementary to post-secondary settings, having taught First Nations students on an Indian reserve in upstate NY, high school Theology in his native Canada and ESL to university students in Ukraine, where he lived from 1999-2002. He has been active in the Pro-Life movement for 25 years and, since his ordination in 2008, has been involved as retreat master for various groups. Outside of his parish ministry, he ministers as needed to the imprisoned at Allegheny County Jail.

Halyna Charron (Vykhnevych) was born in Sosnivka, Ukraine in 1979. After high school she entered the Lviv Theological Academy, now the Ukrainian Catholic University, and earned her Master’s in Theology. Her thesis work was an examination of Laborem Exercens with an original translation from the Latin into Ukrainian. Her vocation as wife and mother and dobrodyka (presbytera) has impacted the lives of the many young women she has met in her time at parishes in Raleigh, NC, Walkerton, Ontario and Carnegie, PA. Her joy and enthusiasm in organizing mother’s groups, children’s play groups, beginning choirs, teaching others pysanky painting and church socials have drawn numerous young women and their families closer to the Church.

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Fr. Marek and Miriam Visnovsky Seminar

Ryan Dumont — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 01:11:56 +0000

Seminar Series

Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 7:00-8:30 PM

Presenters: Fr. Marek Visnovsky and his wife Miriam of St. Mary Parish in Cleveland, Ohio

Topic: Ministry of a Married Byzantine Catholic Priest and His Family

Synopsis: Fr. Marek and Miriam will introduce themselves and share some of their background, including meeting at the Faculty of Theology in Slovakia, dating, preparing for marriage, marriage, ordination, and moving to America. They will also give attention to various aspects of family life and parochial ministry including the pastoral challenges of a married priest, raising children within the parish family, and balancing family life and parish family life.

Question and Answer session included.
Program concludes by 8:30 PM.

The Seminary will provide child care during this seminar in accordance with archeparchial safe environment policies.

Location: Byzantine Catholic Seminary, 3605 Perrysville Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15214

R.S.V.P.: By November 7 at office@bcs.edu or 412-321-8383, please include the number of children for childcare.

NOTE: This event will be streamed live.

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Dr. Stephen Hildebrand and Dr. Michael Sirilla Seminar

Ryan Dumont — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:40:56 +0000

Faculty Seminar Series

Wednesday, September 28, 2016, 7:00-8:30 PM

Presenters: Dr. Stephen Hildebrand and Dr. Michael Sirilla of Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio

Topic: Spiritual Perfection in Dionysius and Basil

Synopsis: Dr. Hildebrand will begin the seminar with a discussion of St. Basil’s view of the spiritual life. We will see that Basil’s spirituality is rooted in his theological anthropology, and how God, having made man, leads him through the economy of salvation toward spiritual perfection. The place of the Lord, the sacraments, and the ascetic life are central. Dr. Sirilla will continue with a discussion of Dionysius’ theology of the hierarchy as found in his two principal works on the subject: The Celestial Hierarchy and The Ecclesial Hierarchy. Dionysius teaches that God seeks to bring about “theosis” (deification) in us by means of a hierarchical order in which the lower members are assimilated to the Most High God by way of intermediaries with authority (the choirs of angels and then bishops, priests,and deacons). We are led through the threefold path to spiritual perfection – the purgative, illuminative, and unitive stages – by means of divinely-established angelic and ecclesiastical hierarchs.

Question and Answer session included.
Program concludes by 8:30 PM.

Location: Byzantine Catholic Seminary, 3605 Perrysville Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15214

R.S.V.P.: As soon as possible at office@bcs.edu or 412-321-8383

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Dr. Sandra Collins

Ryan Dumont — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:55:06 +0000

Faculty Seminar Series

Thursday, January 28, 2016, 7:00 PM

Presenter: Dr. Sandra Collins, Professor

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Synopsis: In Genesis 18, we have Sarah’s laughter regarding the promise of a child despite her advanced age. Rabbinic as well as patristic commentary has much to say about this event. We too will look closely at this short but important exchange, where we will find clues to the anxieties of the later interpreters as well as a poignant moment where Sarah encourages us to consider Eden again.

Question and Answer session included.
Program concludes by 8:15 PM.

Location: Byzantine Catholic Seminary, 3605 Perrysville Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15214

R.S.V.P.: As soon as possible at office@bcs.edu or 412-321-8383

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Mr. Geoffrey Mackey

Ryan Dumont — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 03:51:26 +0000

Faculty Seminar Series

Thursday, 22 October 2015, 7:00 PM

Presenter: Mr. Geoffrey Mackey, Adjunct Associate Professor

Topic: Liturgical Composition in an Ecumenical Age: Byzantine Influences in 20th Century Protestant Liturgies

Synopsis: The 20th century liturgical movement affected every major Christian tradition in various ways. Methodist liturgiologist Geoffrey Wainwright has rightly indicated that one of the fruits of the liturgical movement was a convergence of practice through a return to common sources shared by all Christians, regardless of confessional differences. Three mainline Protestant groups in America – Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Presbyterians – produced revised liturgical books in the latter 20th century. This lecture will examine their texts to identify the influences of the Byzantine Tradition in their official liturgies.

Question and Answer session included.
Program concludes by 8:15 PM.

Location: Byzantine Catholic Seminary, 3605 Perrysville Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15214

R.S.V.P.: By 19 October at office@bcs.edu or 412-321-8383

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Faculty Seminar Series Archives - Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius

Fr. Jason and Presbytera Halyna Charron Seminar

Fr. Marek and Miriam Visnovsky Seminar

** NOTE: This event will be streamed live. **

Dr. Stephen Hildebrand and Dr. Michael Sirilla Seminar

Dr. Sandra Collins

Mr. Geoffrey Mackey

NOTE: This event will be streamed live.