His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr Presided Over Festivities Dedicated to Academic Year Beginning in Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary
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The Knowledge Day in the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary began with the Divine Liturgy, which was celebrated in the Refectory Church of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and headed by Rector of the Academy and Seminary Bishop Anthony of Boryspil, in concelebration of the professors and teachers in the holy orders.
Following the Divine service the premises of the Academy students' dormitory (Lavra's block No.55) were blessed because of the general repairs carried out throughout the summer vacations. The rite of blessing was served by the Rector of the KTA&S, Bishop Anthony of Boryspil. He addressed those present with the following words: "It has become a good tradition to sanctify something new, repaired, restored at the beginning of the Academic Year: last year it was the administrative block, this year it is the dormitory of the Academy." Also the Right Reverend Rector expressed gratitude to those who had contributed to the restoration of the building.
Then the teachers together with the students followed to the Church of the Exhaltation of the Cross, with Vladyka Anthony at the head. There, at the reliquary of the Venerable Nestor the Chronicler His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr served the prayer service for the beginning of new academic year.
Concelebrating with His Beatitude were Bishop Anthony of Boryspil and Secretary to the Primate of the UOC Bishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi. Praying at the divine service also were Archbishop Augustine of Lviv and Halych and Bishop Iriney of Nizhyn and Pryluky.
Congratulating the pious community on the beginning of the new academic year, the Archpastor addressed those present with a word of exhortation: "Bearing obedience of a priest is rather difficult. Simple desire is not enough, one must expend significant effort. A priest is imposed with a great amount of pastoral work. It means teaching, preaching, performing the Holy Mysteries of Christ, taking thought of all parishioners and some individuals. To prepare ourselves to pastoral ministry is both our duty as teachers and a duty of those who has entered the Holy Lavra for the first time and for those who have studied here for many years."
Upon completion all teachers and students received the blessing of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for work and study in the new school year.
After the prayer service the festive event was held in the session hall of the Kyiv Theological Academy (Lavra's block No.45), in the course of which His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr blessed the future clergymen by his archpastoral blessing.
"Every labour is honourable. Every science is labour needing special attention, focusing of man's attention, exercising of his will. Let the Lord bless You and your families so that you could worthily and rightly work on the formation of your personality, which will be called to serve the world in future." Also His Beatitude conferred church orders upon some teachers of the KTA&S on the occasion of the anniversaries celebrated and for the services to the Church. Thus, the teacher of the Holy Scripture of the Old Testament Bishop Iriney of Nizhyn and Pryluky was bestowed the order of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, and the inspector for educational work archdeacon Sergiy Kosovskyi was bestowed on the order of the Venerable Nestor the Chronicler on the occasion of his 50th anniversary. At the end the Rector of the Theological schools Bishop Anthony of Boryspil expressed gratitude to the Primate of the UOC on the part of the "big academic family" for his love, constant care and guardianship of the Kyiv Theological Schools and presented some statistical data. Thus, as of September 1, 2008 776 studied in the KTA&S, 321 of them are full-time students, and 455 are per correspondence students. There are 133 full-time students in the Academy, and 169 in the Seminary. The faculty and teaching staff account for 63 persons, 5 of them are hierarchs and 31 are clergymen.
After the solemn action the class hour were held, in the course of which the tutors of the courses greeted the students on the beginning of the new academic year and blessed for the diligent study of the theological science.
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http://orthodox.org.ua/eng/node/322
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