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The Institute of Theology at St. Augustine’s Seminary presents this retreat as part of its Spirit & Life Series for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.

Retreat Leader: Rev. Edwin Gonsalves
Date: Saturday December 14, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Location: St. Augustine’s Seminary, 2661 Kingston Rd, Scarborough
Format: In-Person Only
Cost: $45 - Includes warm croissants, pastries, coffee and tea on arrival, as well as lunch. Mass, Confession, and Adoration will also be offered.
Registration: Capacity is limited and attendance is by registration only.

In this Advent day of retreat, we will follow Mary and Joseph through their moments of saying “yes” to Our Lord’s will for them. As we follow the moments of the Annunciation, the birth of Jesus, Joseph’s dreams and the flight into Egypt, we realize how many times the Lord seemed to ask of them what was unexpected and uncertain, even uncomfortable and life changing. As we enter the Advent season, this retreat will allow us to strengthen our own many “yeses” to God, with the model and help of Mary and Joseph.

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The Ecclesiastical Faculty of Theology at St. Augustine’s Seminary presents this talk as part of its Series of Patristic Talks for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.

Speaker: Dr. Wendy Helleman
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Charbonnel Lounge, University of St. Michael’s College
Elmsley Hall, 81 St. Mary Street, Toronto
Cost: FREE - Talked followed by fellowship and light refreshments
Registration: Capacity is limited and attendance is by registration only. Registration will open soon to attend in-person or online.

Already well advanced in years, Victorinus (ca. 290 – ca. 365 CE) became a Christian in Rome in the mid-fourth century, at a time when the Arian view, subordinating Jesus Christ as Son to the Father, threatened to undermine the Nicene affirmation of his full deity as Son (325 CE). The talk will focus on serious confusion in use of language and terminology, East and West, which would finally be clarified at the Council of Constantinople (381 CE). But well before that council, Victorinus was among the first Christian theologians to discuss the mystery of the Trinity when addressing the full deity of Christ. Not only did he give clear expression to the distinction of the “One” and “Three” in Greek; he was the first to establish and defend the appropriate corresponding terminology in Latin.

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The Institute of Theology at St. Augustine’s Seminary presents this retreat as part of its Spirit & Life Series for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.

Retreat Leader: Archbishop Emeritus Thomas Cardinal Collins
Date: Saturday March 22, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Location: St. Augustine’s Seminary, 2661 Kingston Rd, Scarborough
Format: In-Person Only
Cost: $45 - Includes warm pastries, coffee and tea on arrival as well as lunch. Mass, Confession, and Adoration will also be offered.
Registration: Capacity is limited and attendance is by registration only.

The Exodus journey of the Israelites through the desert has long been a model for the Season of Lent. As our lives today journey through an increasingly hostile modern secular desert, the Exodus experience can offer valuable lessons. Encouraged by the prophet Isaiah’s promise that we might draw water joyfully from the wells of salvation (Isaiah 3:12), this Lenten day of retreat will offer the fruitful spiritual exercise of understanding both the threats of the modern secular desert, and the ways we can find wellsprings of new life and of hope.

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The Ecclesiastical Faculty of Theology at St. Augustine’s Seminary presents this talk as part of its Series of Patristic Talks for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.

Speaker: Rev. Hubertus Drobner
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Charbonnel Lounge, University of St. Michael’s College
Elmsley Hall, 81 St. Mary Street, Toronto
Cost: FREE - Talked followed by fellowship and light refreshments
Registration: Capacity is limited and attendance is by registration only. Registration will open soon to attend in-person or online.

The talk will analyse the exact meaning of the text of the Nicene Creed on the basis of its theological tradition and show why it became such an undisputed success story up to our present days.

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The Institute of Theology at St. Augustine’s Seminary presents this talk as part of its Spirit & Life Series for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.

Speaker: Rev. Kevin Belgrave
Date: Saturday April 26, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Location: St. Augustine’s Seminary, 2661 Kingston Rd, Scarborough
Format: In-Person Only
Cost: $10 - Includes the talk, warm pastries, coffee and tea!
Registration: Capacity is limited and attendance is by registration only. Stay tuned…registration will open soon.

From the economy to politics to individual hearts, our time is marked by a palpable sense of unease, casting a shadow of confusion and discouragement that at times seems impossible to escape. This talk will help us understand the origins and roots of the many symptoms of fear, anxiousness, and polarization that characterize our fractured time. As we shine the light of the Gospel on these symptoms, we can better recognize their sources and thus better respond with hearts and actions full of hope.