Saint Joseph's Seminary Fall Lecture Series with Faculty


"Catholic Answers to Today's Questions: 'Giving Reason for Our Hope' (1 Pt 3:15)"


October 3 to November 21, 2019,
beginning at 7:30pm
at The Church of Saint Patrick
in the lower church, Murray Hall
400 Main Street
Huntington, New York 11743



Lectures:

 October 3, 2019: Fr. Kevin O’Reilly, ST.D., “Why Does God Allow So Much Suffering?”

 October 10, 2019: Prof. Annmarie McLaughlin, M.A., “Women in the Bible: Suitable Helpers or Dominated Spouses? A Close Look at their Frequently Overlooked Contributions”


October 17, 2019: Fr. Charles Caccavale, S.T.D., “Compassion or Abandonment? Assisted Suicide
     and Church Teaching on End-of-Life Care”

 October 24, 2019: Dr. Jennifer Donelson, D.M.A., “Why Does the Church Spend So Much
     Money on Beautiful Art, Architecture and Music? Shouldn’t It Be Spent on the Poor?”

 October 31, 2019: Dr. Enrique Aguilar, S.S.D., “Praying with the Psalms”

 November 7. 2019: Dr. Michael Hoonhout, Ph.D.: “God’s Creation and Modern Science”

 November 14, 2019: Fr. Michael Bruno, S.T.D., “Galileo and the Church: What Really Happened?”

 November 21, 2019: Fr. Matthew Ernest, S.T.D., “The Liturgies of Advent”

 

Keynote Presentation

Jared Lamenzo
Director of Music at the
Basilica of Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral: “The Restoration
of the 1868 Henry Erban Organ at Old St. Patrick’s"

Breakout sessions
Dr. Jennifer Donelson (St. Joseph’s Seminary),
James Wetzel (Saint Vincent Ferrer and Saint Catherine of Siena Parish, Manhattan)
Mark Pacoe (St. John Nepomucene/St. Francis Xavier Cabrini Parish, Manhattan)
Dr. Liya Petrides (St. Catherine of Siena Church, Riverside, CT), representatives from Foley-Baker, Peragallo, Organ Clearing House

All-Star Organ Concert featuring St. Joseph’s Seminary’s
Casavant Frères pipe organ played by a collection of
New York’s finest Catholic organists


Registration:  
nyliturgy.org/workshops or  
call 914.968.6200, x8177
Admission: $35.00 (includes lunch)
RSVP by November 15

Saint Joseph 's Seminary continues to meet the needs of students in the surrounding northern counties of New York and Connecticut at our new location in Somers, NY. Classes begin September 9th at John F. Kennedy Catholic High School. We will no longer be at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic H.S. in Poughkeepsie.

Principal, Fr. Mark Vaillancourt will be teaching Introduction to Theology on Monday nights, 7:00pm to 9:30pm.